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   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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