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   SUBJECT: SOME SAY UFO IS AS BIG AS FOOTBALL FIELD            FILE: UFO1277   
      
      
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   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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