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   SUBJECT: 3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW         FILE: UFO1273   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 9, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Weekly Post   
   LOCATION:  Rainsville, Alabama   
   BYLINE:  Susan Stockman   
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   3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW UFO   
      
   By Susan Stockman   
      
        FYFFE-A  thousand  points of light descended on  Fyffe  last   
   Friday  night  as people from all over  the  Southeastern  United   
   States visited this small town in hopes of getting just a glimpse   
   of  what has become known around the world at the infamous 'Fyffe   
   Flying Banana.'   
        For  the  most  part,  the UFO stalkers  were  disappointed,   
   because the only lights to be found in Fyffe on this cloudy night   
   were  those from the magnitude of vehicles roaming  the  highways   
   and byways.   
        While  the estimated 7,000 eyes of the 3,500 people in Fyffe   
   were focused on the horizon Friday night, unofficial reports came   
   in  that the craft was sighted in the sky between  Macedonia  and   
   Grove Oak around 9:00 p.m. that night.   
        A  traffic  jam in the middle of town was the most  exciting   
   event  that  took place all night,  and most of  the  side  roads   
   looked  like  a lover's lane,  with cars parked on the sides  and   
   necks stuck out the windows--watching and waiting.   
        They  came in cars,  vans,  campers and trucks,  armed  with   
   cameras,  binoculars, blankets and thermos bottles of coffee, all   
   on the same mission--to see the mysterious,  flashing object that   
   has been roaming the night skies of Fyffe for the past month.   
        A  bonfire  was  built  on the edge  of  town  to  lure  the   
   visitors, both from this world and, perhaps, beyond.   
        Antenna's  were  pointed at the sky as  television  stations   
   broadcasted their nightly news programs from this small town.   
        Media  descended  on  the town  like  locusts,  interviewing   
   everyone  that had an opinion of what was in the  sky--and  there   
   wasn't anyone who was in Fyffe that didn't have an opinion.   
        Fire trucks were moved out of the fire station to make  room   
   for  a vendor to set up tables to sell air brushed T-shirts  that   
   said, "I survived the Sand Mountain UFO."   
        UFO  seekers ran the gamut from babies blanketed in mothers'   
   arms,  to teenagers cruising with radios blasting,  to  someone's   
   grandmother  who  said she had had an experience with a UFO  some   
   years back.   
        Fyffe  has  received worldwide attention  in  recent  weeks,   
   after  the  first sightings of a 'banana-shaped' object  hovering   
   over the area was sited by Donna Saylor of Grove Oak on  February   
   10.  Since the first sightings, many more have been reported, but   
   the description differed somewhat from the original banana shaped   
   object.   
        Representatives  of  the Mutual Unidentified  Flying  Object   
   Network  (MUFON),  an international research group involved  with   
   UFO  studies,  were  also in Fyffe Friday night,  and there  were   
   unconfirmed reports of FBI agents and Air Force investigators  in   
   town.   
        Fyffe  has  been the subject of numerous newspaper  articles   
   and  national news stories such as 'Inside Edition,' who aired  a   
   somewhat comical report of the sightings.   
        But  the  residents of Fyffe who saw  the  mysterious  craft   
   don't find anything comical about the sightings.   They just want   
   to  know what it is,  and they continue to search the night skies   
   for  another glimpse of the craft,  waiting for someone  to  come   
   forth with information to identify the object.   
        With  the  party atmosphere that prevailed in  Fyffe  Friday   
   night,  the  UFO could have,  in all probability,  landed on  the   
   outskirts  of town and no one would have seen it--the people were   
   just too busy searching the skies.   
      
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