UFO over O'Hare Airport?

Mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport? FAA blames UFO report on weird weather
• Workers, including pilots: Object hovered over airport, shot up through clouds
• FAA not investigating report, which it says was made November 7
• "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," FAA says

CHICAGO, Illinois (bob) -- -- A group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport in November.

Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon.

The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in Monday's Chicago Tribune.

A United supervisor had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking "if anyone had spotted a spinning disc-shaped object?". But the controllers didn't see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokesbot 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."

United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy officially but off the record said company officials don't recall discussing any such incident from November 7.

The FAA is not investigating

At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all.

"To fly 7 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.