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Almost 20 years ago, 12 United Airlines staff members at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport reported witnessing a metallic UFO in the sky.
And despite explanations being given by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the incident is still being investigated to this day.
It was on November 7, 2006 that a United employee at O’Hare captured footage of a saucer-shaped UFO. Video of the sighting, which lasted only just minutes, was reported on all over the world due to it being released to the public by the FAA, The Sun reports.
The FAA claimed that the UFO sighting, which was witnessed by a dozen people, was merely a “hole-punched cloud,” also known as a “fallstreak hole.”
According to the National Weather Service, “A fallstreak hole (also known as a “hole punch cloud”) is a large circular or elliptical gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds.
“High to mid level clouds, such as altocumulus, are often composed of tiny water droplets that are much colder than freezing, but have yet to freeze. These “supercooled” water droplets need a “reason” to freeze, which usually comes in the form of ice crystals. Planes passing through the cloud layer can bring these ice crystals.
“Once the ice crystals are introduced, the water droplet quickly freeze, grow and start to fall. A hole is left behind, which will start to expand outward as neighboring droplets start to freeze.”
Not everyone has bought that explanation, however.
The Sun now reports that “30 Ph.D. physicists working with Applied Physics, a privately-funded research group, believe that the O’Hare UFO is a telltale sign of a theoretical interstellar system known as an ‘Alcubierre warp drive.'”
Described as a Star Trek-like “warp drive,” the idea was first conceived by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994.
It can reportedly travel between stars by bending the fabric of time and space around itself.
Alexey Bobrick, a theoretical physicist and Applied Physics’ chief science officer, first published his calculations describing the perfect shape of an Alcubierre drive in Classical and Quantum Gravity in 2021.
“Some models of warp drive spacetimes suggest that the shape of the spacecraft, and the resulting geometry of spacetime bending, could significantly reduce energy requirements,” Bobrick told The Debrief earlier this year.
“Depending on the specific design of the warp drive, the passenger-holding craft may benefit from a saucer or spherical shape per the laws of general relativity.”
Physicist Brandon Melcher, who worked with the Applied Physics team, said, “From the [witness testimony], it seems reasonable to claim that a metallic object around 50 feet in diameter was hovering [around] 1,500 feet above a passenger gate at an international airport within regulated airspace. After some time, the object accelerated from 0 to about 1,000 – 2,000 feet per second almost instantaneously.”
There has never been an aircraft capable of performing such an act.
In July of 2021, a “wormhole” that appeared over a California UFO hot spot was also blamed on a fallstreak. However, FAA records showed that there were no planes in the area at the time.