What people thought was a UFO may have actually been a weather phenomenon.

Summary

  • The UFO sighting at O’Hare Airport in 2006 was dismissed as a “hole-punch cloud” by an FAA investigation.

  • Project Blue Book concluded no evidence of extraterrestrial UFOs or security threats to the US.

  • People often mistake ordinary objects or weather phenomena for UFOs.

At around 16:15 on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, a group of United Airlines employees and several other people saw what they believed to be a flying saucer hovering over the airport for several minutes.

While the description of the UFO varies slightly depending on who you asked, they all agreed that the shiny object hovered silently over the apron for several minutes before suddenly disappearing into the sky.

The incident occurred over Gate C-17 in Terminal 1 and was first spotted by a ramp agent pushing back United Airlines Flight 466, which was to depart Chicago for Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina. The ramp agent advised the flight deck that something was hovering over the plane.

The unknown object was then seen by the pilots, cabin crew, a member of United Airlines management, and a mechanic. Despite several people seeing it, no air traffic controller saw the object, and it did not appear on the radar. Several other people outside the airport reported seeing a dark gray disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport and were adamant that it was not a cloud.

  • MCHEVA@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I think I remember hearing about it at the time. There have been few sightings near airports. There was one in China a few years back that they shut down the airport for.

    Also is O’hare had sightings of Mothman in the last few years. Might want to avoid the bridges around that way haha.