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SUBJECT: HOW FYFFE SIGHTINGS HAVE AFFECTED PEOPLE FILE: UFO1278
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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: Susan Stockman
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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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HOW THE UFO SIGHTINGS HAVE AFFECTED SOME PEOPLE
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A FIRST HAND GLIMPSE OF THE UFO
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By Susan Stockman
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RAINSVILLE-Up until this past week, I had only a reporters'
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interest in the UFO sightings which have taken place in and
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around Fyffe.
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I reported the stories and events, took pictures and talked
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with people who had actually spotted the object. I made phone
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calls to various military bases, talked to the world's leading
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skeptic on the UFO phenomenon and interviewed a person who
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believed he had actually had an encounter with an alien
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spaceship, not this time around, but previously.
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All this was done strictly as part of my job as a reporter
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for the Weekly Post. I had no personal interest. I believed the
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people who had sighted objects were actually seeing something, I
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just didn't know what.
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My business interest suddenly changed to a more personal
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nature Wednesday night, March 8, when I saw the object that has
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received so much attention. As a bad as they were, I made some
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pictures.
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As I got a small taste of what others had been getting a
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large dose of, my curiosity of the object grew.
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That next night Teri Baker, co-owner and general manager of
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the Weekly Post, and I decided to go back to Fyffe in hopes of
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getting better pictures. That was, if the object decided to
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reappear.
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We were fortunate enough, and I use the word fortunate
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literally, to see the object again. Teri made a series of
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pictures of the movement of the object, and, just for reference,
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made a picture of an airplane using the same photographic
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techniques. That set of pictures appear in today's edition of
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the Weekly Post.
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We still do not know what the object is but we do know that
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it doesn't move like any airplane we, or anyone else we have
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talked to, knows about.
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Teri's pictures were made with a Canon 35mm camera, shot
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with the shutter wide open and a two-minute exposure time to
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allow enough lights in for the horizon to be visible.
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The pictures show the object moving slightly in that two
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minute time span. They also show the airplane to have moved
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about 10 times as far. One thing I need to mention is the fact
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that there was only a silver of a moon out that night. The
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pictures show what seems to be a full moon, but that is only the
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result of the time-lapse photography.
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When word of the photographs spread, the media descended on
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us like people trailing into Fyffe on a Friday night. We were
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literally besieged by television stations, radio stations and
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newspapers from all across the country. We didn't tell a soul
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that we had made the pictures. We still don't know how they
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found out. They were calling Teri at 7:30 the next morning,
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wanting interviews or copies of the pictures.
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After a full week of doing interviews with those news crews,
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both local and national, and talking to what seemed like a half
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million interested individuals, both in person and on the phone,
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I wondered what was the reaction of the other people who had
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sighted the object.
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I talked to as many of them as I could round up Monday and
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Tuesday. Most said the same thing. That they were constantly
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dealing with reporters looking for a story, just like I was in
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the beginning.
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Although many residents have reported sightings, the ones
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who have received the most attention are Donna Saylor, Kathy
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Green, Jill Worley, her sister Rhonda Gipson, Fyffe Police Chief
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Junior Garmany and assistant chief Fred Works.
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I tried to call each of them to see what effect this event
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has had on their day-to-day lives.
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Saylor said, "There are a lot of interruptions in my day by
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the press. I have had calls from as far away as England. I
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really don't mind talking to the people, but when the people from
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'Inside Edition' aired the program like they did, I was really
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put out, I gave those people four hours of my time and it was
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wasted. After the show aired, I decided not to do any more
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interviews."
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Saylor said the only thing she regretted was using the
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description "it was curved like a banana." She said if she had
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it to do over again, she would have used another description of
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the object.
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Kathy Green said the only change in her day-to-day routine
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was that people were always asking her what it is like and how
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she felt when she saw the UFO.
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"I really don't find it a bother to talk to these people.
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It's exciting. Life really hasn't changed much around here
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except that I am now more aware of what's up in the sky," Green
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said.
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Fyffe assistant police chief Fred Works indicated that the
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"only way it has affected my life is my job. I have to talk to a
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lot more people now than I did before."
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Fyffe Police Chief Junior Garmany said, "Basically, it goes
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with this line of work. We are always dealing with the media.
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But, this has been slightly out of the normal. We're just
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sitting back and waiting for things to get back to normal."
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I could not reach Jill Worley or her sister Rhonda Gipson.
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As for Teri and myself, it is getting a little easier to go
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about our day-to-day activities. Friday, we could not even work
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for having to answer the telephone or talk to news crews.
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It has been a learning experience for me. Being a
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reporter, I am accustomed to asking the questions and doing the
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interviewing. It has been difficult to be the one interviewed.
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All the people I talked to who reported the sightings agree
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on one thing. that given the same set of circumstances, we would
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have spoken out about what we saw.
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The people have the right to know what is going on in the
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sky above. Now, if we just knew.
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