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APn 03/04 1224 UFO Hoopla
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Copyright, 1989. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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FYFFE, Ala. (AP) -- The prospect of seeing a UFO lured more than 4,000 people
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to the town of Fyffe, greatly outnumbering the town's residents.
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"This is unreal," Police Chief Junior Garmany said Friday night while he
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watched bumper-to-bumper traffic in the town of 1,300 people in northeastern
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Alabama. "We've never had traffic like this."
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Municipal Court Clerk Tammy Mitchell said Saturday the previous night's crowd
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had been estimated at "4,500 or something like that." She said people were
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"riding around, buying T-shirts, going to a bonfire."
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But for all the hoopla, no unidentified flying objects were sighted Friday.
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Visibility was obscured by clouds and light rain.
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"I hope it rains tonight," Ms. Mitchell said Saturday.
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Friday night's visitors drove up and down the town's main street while others
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stood gaping at the sky. Fire Chief Ricky Dobbins invited some to his house on
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the outskirts of the town where he built a bonfire.
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Police radio dispatcher Shelia Smith said she has been answering calls from
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people wanting directions to Fyffe.
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Fyffe got on the UFO circuit Feb. 10 when a woman reported seeing a strange
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light in the sky and police later reported seeing a large lighted object
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passing silently over them. Numerous other sightings have been reported since
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then.
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