UFO? Please look at the light...

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- -- Federal officials 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 O'Hare Airport in
November.

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.
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged that 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 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 don't 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 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.