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