O'Hare workers spy unidentified object

CHICAGO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A group of United Airlines employees at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport claim to have seen a saucer-shaped object flying low above the terminal.

Several witnesses said the dark gray elliptical object, which was spotted before sunset Nov. 7, hovered for several minutes above Gate C17 at the airport before flying upwards through the clouds, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said the object was not spotted by any air traffic controllers and a preliminary radar check did not turn up anything unusual.

However, some of the witnesses insist the UFO was not a "weather phenomenon," as the FAA has suggested.

"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport," said a United mechanic who observed the metallic-looking object.

"But I know that what I saw and what a lot of other people saw stood out very clearly, and it definitely was not an (earth) aircraft," the mechanic said.