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Flying but unknown: United's eerie aerial experience

They were not drinking. Or smoking that funny stuff, they swear, but a serious number (several dozen) of serious United Airlines workers at Chicago O'Hare swear that they saw an aerial phenomenon they can't explain, or, in other words an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). It happened late last year but the news is just now coming out that the United people say they saw an object hovering low over O'Hare for several minutes and then taking off through thick clouds leaving "an eerie hole in the overcast skies", one of them tells the Chicago Tribune.

United says it knows nothing, nothing, but the Federal Aviation Administration said its air-traffic control tower at O'Hare received a call from a United supervisor asking if controllers had spotted a mysterious elliptical-shaped craft sitting motionless over Concourse C of the United terminal. What's interesting is that airline employees, who daily serve unidentified fried objects to the passengers and who daily see strange things aloft, do not report more UFO-type sightings. But an air traffic controller in Chicago has made the best of the strange situation, quipping, "Wherever they were from, they should have known better than to try to land at O'Hare in the afternoon rush. After all, they came all those zillions of light years only to find they couldn't get to their gate".

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