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'UFO' spooks pilots over Chicago January 2, 2007 - 8:29AM Federal officials in the US say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Chicago's O'Hare Airport. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object did not have lights and hovered over an airport terminal on November 7 before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in today's Chicago Tribune. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) acknowledged that a United supervisor had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking if anyone had seen a spinning disc-shaped object. But the controllers did not see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said. "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things." The FAA is not investigating, Cory said. United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said company officials do not recall discussing any such incident from November 7. At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all. "To fly seven million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said. AP
