What was the 2006 Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO incident?
“On November 7, 2006, a dozen United Airlines employees at Chicago O'Hare International Airport reported a metallic disc hovering above Gate C-17 for several minutes before shooting straight up through the cloud deck, leaving a circular hole in the clouds.”
The Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO incident occurred on November 7, 2006, at approximately 4:30 PM local time, when at least twelve United Airlines employees — including pilots, mechanics, and ramp workers — observed a dark gray, disc-shaped object hovering at low altitude above Gate C-17 of Concourse C at O'Hare International Airport. After several minutes of static hover, witnesses reported the object accelerated vertically through the overcast cloud layer at high speed, allegedly leaving a circular hole in the clouds. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initially denied receiving any reports, then acknowledged the eyewitness accounts after the Chicago Tribune published a major story by reporter Jon Hilkevitch on January 1, 2007. The FAA attributed the sighting to a "weather phenomenon." No radar return is on the public record. The case is not in PURSUE Release 01 but is one of the most-cited modern civilian-witness commercial-aviation UAP events.
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