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SUBJECT: 3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW FILE: UFO1273
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 9, 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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3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW UFO
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By Susan Stockman
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FYFFE-A thousand points of light descended on Fyffe last
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Friday night as people from all over the Southeastern United
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States visited this small town in hopes of getting just a glimpse
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of what has become known around the world at the infamous 'Fyffe
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Flying Banana.'
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For the most part, the UFO stalkers were disappointed,
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because the only lights to be found in Fyffe on this cloudy night
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were those from the magnitude of vehicles roaming the highways
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and byways.
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While the estimated 7,000 eyes of the 3,500 people in Fyffe
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were focused on the horizon Friday night, unofficial reports came
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in that the craft was sighted in the sky between Macedonia and
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Grove Oak around 9:00 p.m. that night.
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A traffic jam in the middle of town was the most exciting
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event that took place all night, and most of the side roads
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looked like a lover's lane, with cars parked on the sides and
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necks stuck out the windows--watching and waiting.
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They came in cars, vans, campers and trucks, armed with
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cameras, binoculars, blankets and thermos bottles of coffee, all
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on the same mission--to see the mysterious, flashing object that
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has been roaming the night skies of Fyffe for the past month.
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A bonfire was built on the edge of town to lure the
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visitors, both from this world and, perhaps, beyond.
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Antenna's were pointed at the sky as television stations
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broadcasted their nightly news programs from this small town.
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Media descended on the town like locusts, interviewing
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everyone that had an opinion of what was in the sky--and there
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wasn't anyone who was in Fyffe that didn't have an opinion.
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Fire trucks were moved out of the fire station to make room
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for a vendor to set up tables to sell air brushed T-shirts that
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said, "I survived the Sand Mountain UFO."
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UFO seekers ran the gamut from babies blanketed in mothers'
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arms, to teenagers cruising with radios blasting, to someone's
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grandmother who said she had had an experience with a UFO some
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years back.
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Fyffe has received worldwide attention in recent weeks,
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after the first sightings of a 'banana-shaped' object hovering
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over the area was sited by Donna Saylor of Grove Oak on February
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10. Since the first sightings, many more have been reported, but
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the description differed somewhat from the original banana shaped
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object.
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Representatives of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object
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Network (MUFON), an international research group involved with
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UFO studies, were also in Fyffe Friday night, and there were
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unconfirmed reports of FBI agents and Air Force investigators in
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town.
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Fyffe has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles
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and national news stories such as 'Inside Edition,' who aired a
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somewhat comical report of the sightings.
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But the residents of Fyffe who saw the mysterious craft
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don't find anything comical about the sightings. They just want
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to know what it is, and they continue to search the night skies
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for another glimpse of the craft, waiting for someone to come
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forth with information to identify the object.
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With the party atmosphere that prevailed in Fyffe Friday
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night, the UFO could have, in all probability, landed on the
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outskirts of town and no one would have seen it--the people were
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just too busy searching the skies.
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