2006

The O’Hare Airport UFO, 2006: A Disc Over Gate C17 and a Hole in the Clouds

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Aerial view of Chicago O'Hare International Airport from above, showing the runways and terminals — the airport where the November 2006 sighting took place, not the object itself

About 6 min readOn a grey afternoon in November 2006, a dozen United Airlines employees watched a silent metallic disc hover over Gate C17 at Chicago O’Hare — then shoot straight up, punching a clean hole through the cloud deck. The FAA called it weather. The witnesses never agreed.