SUBJECT: SIGHTING REPORT FROM RAINSVILLE ALABAMA FILE: UFO1262
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DATE OF ARTICLE: February 16, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Weekly Post
LOCATION: Rainsville, Alabama
BYLINE: Susan Stockman
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By Susan Stockman
Numerous sightings of a mysterious aircraft were
rep[reported to DeKalb County law enforcement officers Friday
night.
From Lickskillet on Lookout Mountain, to Grove Oak on Sand
Mountain, calls started pouring into police departments around
8:30 p.m. about an object "sometimes hovering above the treetops"
to an object "streaking through the sky."
The craft was not only observed by numerous citizens, but
several law enforcement officers also reporting it.
The first report that something was flying over DeKalb
County came around 8:30 p.m. to the Fyffe Police Department from
a Grove Oak woman.
The woman said she had watched the object for over an hour
through a pair of binoculars.
The woman told The Weekly Post that she and her sister were
returning home from Fyffe when they saw a low-hovering, bright
white light just above the treetops.
The woman, who asked to remain unidentified, said when they
were within one-half mile of her home, the object appeared to be
behind her home.
She said she then rolled down the windows of her car, and
couldn't hear any noise.
When she turned into her driveway, she said the object
disappeared.
While her sister ran into the house to get their husbands,
the woman went to a truck parked outside and retrieved a pair of
binoculars to see if she could follow it through the sky.
She said she could see the object on the horizon, looking
toward Collinsville.
The object was not moving, she said, and appeared to be
shaped "like a banana, with a red light on each end, and a white
light in a line between them. The top of the curve was outlined
in green lights."
The object turned, and the green lights "looked like a
fireworks display," according to the woman.
After calling the Fyffe Police, a patrol car was dispatched
to the woman's home, and according to Fyffe Assistant Police
Chief Fred Works, when they arrived, the craft was still
hovering, and when they got out of the patrol car and started
walking toward it, it began moving away.
The craft then reversed directions and flew over the heads
of the surprised officers.
The officers estimated the craft's altitude at 1,000 to
1,500 feet, but they said they were still able to get a good look
at it.
One of the officers said it appeared as if the white lights
underneath the craft were shining upward, illuminating the
bottom.
After disappearing from the Grove Oak area, the craft was
spotted by an Alabama State Trooper and by officers in
Crossville, Geraldine and Collinsville.
A Lickskillet resident called the DeKalb County Sheriff's
Department and said he "shot at the craft as it topped trees at
his home, with a 12-gauge shotgun."
An official at the Sheriffs Department said the man was
"terrified. He was about to have a heart attack, and his wife
was screaming."
Officials in Huntsville, Birmingham, and Maxwell Air Force
Base in Montgomery were all unable to explain the sightings, and
a National Weather Service spokesperson said that the description
of the craft "doesn't match any kind of weather balloon we have."
The woman that first spotted the craft Friday night saw the
object again Saturday night, in the same area, but said it seemed
to be "further away on the horizon than it was Friday night."
She called officers at Fyffe again, and the officers came to
her house.
When they arrived, the craft was gone, but, according to the
woman, it reappeared, and she watched it on and off for several
hours.
According to authorities, the craft is still listed as an
unidentified object.
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