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SUBJECT: SOME SAY UFO IS AS BIG AS FOOTBALL FIELD FILE: UFO1277
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 16, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Weekly Post
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LOCATION: Rainsville, Alabama
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BYLINE: None
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THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE
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AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION
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SERVICE
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SOME SAY UFO IS AS BIG AS A FOOTBALL FIELD
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FYFFE-While sightings of the mysterious object in the night
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skies over the Fyffe area continue, the occasional television
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crew, armed with camera, lights and microphones, wander into
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town, eager to talk with someone who has seen the hovering
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object.
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Telephone calls from across the United States come daily to
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the Fyffe Police Department from newspapers, and television and
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radio stations wanting to know the most recent developments in
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the as-of-yet unexplained sightings.
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Portable signs advertise UFO specials at Fyffe restaurants,
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and last Friday night an estimated 2,000 people flocked to Fyffe
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to try to see the flashing red and green object.
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Sightings were reported in Fyffe and several surrounding
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communities each night last week, and a news crew from Mobile
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spent the night in Fyffe last Thursday night, doing live
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broadcasts over the radio.
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Jeff Ballard, area director of MUFON, said that while some
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of the sightings that have been reported are legitimate, he feels
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that perhaps some of them have been aircraft, and some have been
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planets or stars that appear to be giving off red and green
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lights.
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Some of the reports checked out by the police department
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were determined to be stars.
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However, one of the most recent sightings took place Sunday
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night, near Geraldine. A simultaneous sighting of an extremely
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large object occured at 7:30 p.m.
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According to Gary Coker of Skirum, an extremely large object
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with red and green flashing lights on the side and two white
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lights approximately six feet in diameter on the bottom hovered
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some five miles away.
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Coker said he sent someone in the house for his binoculars,
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and in the seconds it took the person to return with them, the
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object vanished. "I never took my eyes off the object, and it
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just disappeared," said Coker.
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At exactly the same time Coker viewed the object, another
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man five miles away, who at this time wishes to remain anonymous,
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said an object the size of a football field hovered over his
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chicken house. He said it had two white lights underneath, each
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the size of a small house, and red and green lights outlined the
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sides.
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He went into his house to get a camera and when he came out
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it had vanished. The man said the object was close enough for
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him to distinguish the color of the object, and he described it
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as being a metallic blue that probably would not have been
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visible against the night sky without the huge lights.
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