SUBJECT: SPACE/ASTRONOMY/UFO/ASTRAL EVENTS                   FILE: UFO3126




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�o�SOLUTIONS OFFERED FOR BAT SIGNAL                            �o�
�o�Times, Gadsden, AL Feb 23, 1993                             �o�
�o�                                                            �o�
�o�  An Etowah County woman thinks she has solved one of       �o�
�o�North east Alabama 's UFO riddles.                          �o�
�o�  Last week, Susan Eads video taped a bright light over     �o�
�o�her Fort Payne home. When she used the camera's zoom        �o�
�o�lens on the light, the result was an image with some        �o�
�o�similarities to the light used to signal Batman, the        �o�
�o�fictional super hero of comic book, television and movie    �o�
�o�fame. Law enforcement officials who viewed the light        �o�
�o�agreed it was unusual.                                      �o�
�o�  Sunday, a Hokes Bluff woman videotaped a similar light    �o�
�o�near her home on U.S. 278.                                  �o�
�o�  Also on Sunday night, Mary Buffington saw what she and    �o�
�o�her husband determined was a bright star in the sky         �o�
�o�over their Duck Springs Road home. She had taken her        �o�
�o�video camera outside after Sunday's severe                  �o�
�o�thunderstorms in hopes of documenting some of the hail      �o�
�o�that had fallen.                                            �o�
�o�  She decided to tape the bright star.  She was             �o�
�o�surprised when she zoomed her video camera on the           �o�
�o�light.                                                      �o�
�o�  "It looked exactly like the image that was in the         �o�
�o�newspaper," Mrs. Buffington said.  "I was panicking. I      �o�
�o�thought I've seen the space ship, or whatever it was."      �o�
�o�A photo from Ms. Eads' videotape ran in Saturday's          �o�
�o�Gadsen Times.                                               �o�
�o�  Then, by accident, Mrs. Buffington moved the camera       �o�
�o�and caught a neighbor's security light in the lens.         �o�
�o�She focused.  The Batman signal appeared.  She tried        �o�
�o�another security light.  Again, the Batman signal           �o�
�o�appeared.                                                   �o�
�o�  Mrs. Buffington thinks it's just the effect of            �o�
�o�zooming a video camera in on a bright light in the          �o�
�o�night sky that somehow creates the strange image.           �o�
�o�  While Mrs. Buffington described the light she taped       �o�
�o�as a bright star, Ms. Eads and Marie Edwards don't          �o�
�o�think they saw a star.                                      �o�
�o�  Ms. Eads said the light was much brighter than any of     �o�
�o�the stars in the sky over Fort Payne last Thursday          �o�
�o�night.  Ms. Edwards said no stars were visible Sunday       �o�
�o�when she saw the light in the area near Calhoun County.     �o�
�o�  Until the Sunday sightings, all reports of strange        �o�
�o�lights in the night skies had come from DeKalb County.      �o�
�o�Reports began in late January and have continued this       �o�
�o�month.                                                      �o�
�o�  Ms. Edwards also went outside Sunday night to check on    �o�
�o�the result of a hailstorm. She saw the light about 8:30     �o�
�o�p,m. She said it stayed in the same place for about an      �o�
�o�hour before it appeared to move behind some trees. Ms.      �o�
�o�Eads also had reported that the light she taped stayed      �o�
�o�in one Piace for a long time.                               �o�
�o�  According to a report in today's Birmingham Post-         �o�
�o�Herald, some people may be mistaking the planet Venus       �o�
�o�for a UFO. Thomas Wdowiak, a physics professor and          �o�
�o�astronomer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,      �o�
�o�said the planet is very bright right now and atmospheric    �o�
�o�conditions could make it resemble a spacecraft. He said     �o�
�o�Venus will be right next to the moon on Wednesday           �o�
�o�night.                                                      �o�
�o�  Those making earlier reports of strange lights in         �o�
�o�DeKalb don't buy Wdowiak's explanations, the Post           �o�
�o�Herald reported. Sue Johnson of Dog Town said what she      �o�
�o�saw out side her home on Jan. 28 after hearing a            �o�
�o�humming noise was a long, ova]-shaped aircraft hover        �o�
�o�ing below the treetops.                                     �o�
�o�  Geraldine police dispatcher Susan Austin said what        �o�
�o�she saw and videotaped wasn't a star because it was         �o�
�o�moving. A photo taken from her tape appeared in the         �o�
�o�Gadsden Times. The image was compared by some to the        �o�
�o�light pattern of a Stealth bomber. The Air Force            �o�
�o�discounted the possibility that it was a Stealth.           �o�
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