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   SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTINGS GENERATE ZANY REPORTS                 FILE: UFO1274   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 8, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Times Journal   
   LOCATION:  Fort Payne, Alabama   
   BYLINE:  Dennis Benefield   
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   TABLOID REPORTS LIBERACE SEEN IN FYFFE UFO   
      
   UFO SIGHTINGS GENERATE ZANY REPORTS   
      
   By Dennis Benefield   
   The Times Journal Managing Editor   
      
        A  British tabloid reported Tuesday that residents of Fyffe,   
   Alabama,  saw  entertainer Liberace descend from an  unidentified   
   flying  object  and  perform Hollywood showtunes  on  a  floating   
   piano.   
        A physician in Kansas claims that extraterrestrials say  UFO   
   sightings will in Alabama.   
        And  a  New  York resident believes that UFO  sightings  are   
   actually alien spacecraft.   
        Those are among the more bizarre reports sparked by a series   
   of UFO sightings near Fyffe that began on February 10th.   
        Fyffe policeman Fred Works was interviewed by the BBC -- the   
   British Broadcasting Company -- on Tuesday.   Such interviews are   
   routine since he reported seeing a UFO.   
        "It does get wild sometimes," Works said.   In between phone   
   calls, he scheduled two television interviews Tuesday.   
        "I  stay  on  the phone all the time when I  come  into  the   
   office," he said.  "I try to talk to anybody if they are serious.   
   I hate to refuse to talk to people."   
        What  Works and fellow Fyffe police officer  Junior  Garmany   
   saw Feb. 10 remains unexplained.  Both watched a large object fly   
   over them.  It had lights on it and did not make any sound.   
        "It was huge and it was moving on," Works said.   "It passed   
   over our heads and we watched it go out of sight.   But there was   
   no noise.  That is what surprised me."   
        Others  in  the area reported similar unexplained  sightings   
   that night and on subsequent nights.   
        Since  then  the town has become a popular place  on  Friday   
   nights, as sightseers come to watch the skies.   
        Newspaper, radio, television and magazine reporters are also   
   interested  in  Fyffe,  seeking out anyone who  might  have  seen   
   something.   Some  reports exaggerate the sightings and many  are   
   unflattering to the rural south.   
        Works  was particularly disappointed with a TV report on the   
   nationally  syndicated  show "Inside Edition," which  aired  last   
   week.   
        The crew had Works and Garmany re-enact a reported sighting.   
   But the video was fastforwarded during the report,  which  showed   
   the officers racing off with blue lights flashing in pursuit of a   
   UFO.   
        But other reports are even more zany.   
        A British tabloid,  The Daily Star,  had a half page article   
   on the Fyffe UFOs in its March 7 edition.   
        The paper reported that thousands were flocking to the "tiny   
   town  of Fyffe,  Alabama" in hopes of seeing the late entertainer   
   Liberace.   
        The  tabloid  reported  that residents  of  Fyffe  had  seen   
   Liberace, dressed in a "sparkling gold lame suit," descend from a   
   movable staircase and perform "Singing in the Rain," and "Laura's   
   Theme" on a floating piano.   
        "He  had a lovely,  serene smile," the paper  reported,  and   
   "flexed  his  long,  bony"  fingers at Fyffe  residents.   A  BBC   
   spokesman  said  the report was not taken  seriously  by  British   
   readers.   
        Works doesn't take such reports seriously either.   
        But  the  calls do disrupt the routine at Fyffe  City  Hall.   
   "When  we`re  not  here the ladies in the  office  have  to  take   
   messages,"  Works  said,  adding that the callers "will  talk  to   
   anybody," whether they have seen a UFO or not.   
        The result,  according to Vicki Cooper,  of UFO Magazine, is   
   that  rumors  and  hype get confused with  fact.   She  said  her   
   magazine attempts to take a serious look at sightings.   She said   
   sighting reports were accelerating nationwide.  "This is not just   
   an isolated case," she said.   
        She said it may be coincidence,  but sightings increase when   
   the  economy  worsens or in times of national crisis.   She  said   
   that most sightings remain unexplained.   
        Works  would  like an explanation of what he  saw.   But  he   
   knows it was not Liberace.  "It was really Elvis," he said.   
      
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