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   SUBJECT: HOW FYFFE SIGHTINGS HAVE AFFECTED PEOPLE            FILE: UFO1278   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 16, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Weekly Post   
   LOCATION:  Rainsville, Alabama   
   BYLINE:  Susan Stockman   
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   HOW THE UFO SIGHTINGS HAVE AFFECTED SOME PEOPLE   
      
   A FIRST HAND GLIMPSE OF THE UFO   
      
   By Susan Stockman   
      
        RAINSVILLE-Up until this past week,  I had only a reporters'   
   interest  in  the  UFO sightings which have taken  place  in  and   
   around Fyffe.   
        I reported the stories and events,  took pictures and talked   
   with  people who had actually spotted the object.   I made  phone   
   calls  to various military bases,  talked to the world's  leading   
   skeptic  on  the  UFO  phenomenon and interviewed  a  person  who   
   believed  he  had  actually  had  an  encounter  with  an   alien   
   spaceship, not this time around, but previously.   
        All  this was done strictly as part of my job as a  reporter   
   for the Weekly Post.  I had no personal interest.  I believed the   
   people who had sighted objects were actually seeing something,  I   
   just didn't know what.   
        My  business  interest suddenly changed to a  more  personal   
   nature Wednesday night,  March 8,  when I saw the object that has   
   received so much attention.   As a bad as they were,  I made some   
   pictures.   
        As  I  got a small taste of what others had been  getting  a   
   large dose of, my curiosity of the object grew.   
        That next night Teri Baker,  co-owner and general manager of   
   the  Weekly Post,  and I decided to go back to Fyffe in hopes  of   
   getting  better  pictures.   That was,  if the object decided  to   
   reappear.   
        We  were  fortunate enough,  and I use  the  word  fortunate   
   literally,  to  see  the  object again.   Teri made a  series  of   
   pictures of the movement of the object,  and, just for reference,   
   made  a  picture  of  an airplane  using  the  same  photographic   
   techniques.   That  set of pictures appear in today's edition  of   
   the Weekly Post.   
        We still do not know what the object is but we do know  that   
   it  doesn't  move like any airplane we,  or anyone else  we  have   
   talked to, knows about.   
        Teri's  pictures  were made with a Canon 35mm  camera,  shot   
   with  the  shutter wide open and a two-minute  exposure  time  to   
   allow enough lights in for the horizon to be visible.   
        The  pictures  show the object moving slightly in  that  two   
   minute  time  span.   They also show the airplane to  have  moved   
   about  10 times as far.   One thing I need to mention is the fact   
   that  there  was only a silver of a moon  out  that  night.   The   
   pictures show what seems to be a full moon,  but that is only the   
   result of the time-lapse photography.   
        When word of the photographs spread,  the media descended on   
   us  like people trailing into Fyffe on a Friday night.   We  were   
   literally  besieged  by television stations,  radio stations  and   
   newspapers  from all across the country.   We didn't tell a  soul   
   that  we  had made the pictures.   We still don't know  how  they   
   found  out.   They  were calling Teri at 7:30 the  next  morning,   
   wanting interviews or copies of the pictures.   
        After a full week of doing interviews with those news crews,   
   both local and national,  and talking to what seemed like a  half   
   million interested individuals,  both in person and on the phone,   
   I  wondered  what  was the reaction of the other people  who  had   
   sighted the object.   
        I  talked to as many of them as I could round up Monday  and   
   Tuesday.   Most said the same thing.   That they were  constantly   
   dealing  with reporters looking for a story,  just like I was  in   
   the beginning.   
        Although  many residents have reported sightings,  the  ones   
   who  have  received the most attention are  Donna  Saylor,  Kathy   
   Green,  Jill Worley, her sister Rhonda Gipson, Fyffe Police Chief   
   Junior Garmany and assistant chief Fred Works.   
        I  tried to call each of them to see what effect this  event   
   has had on their day-to-day lives.   
        Saylor said,  "There are a lot of interruptions in my day by   
   the  press.   I  have had calls from as far away as  England.   I   
   really don't mind talking to the people, but when the people from   
   'Inside  Edition' aired the program like they did,  I was  really   
   put  out,  I gave those people four hours of my time and  it  was   
   wasted.   After  the  show aired,  I decided not to do  any  more   
   interviews."   
        Saylor  said  the  only thing she regretted  was  using  the   
   description  "it was curved like a banana."  She said if she  had   
   it  to do over again,  she would have used another description of   
   the object.   
        Kathy  Green said the only change in her day-to-day  routine   
   was  that people were always asking her what it is like  and  how   
   she felt when she saw the UFO.   
        "I  really  don't find it a bother to talk to these  people.   
   It's  exciting.   Life  really hasn't changed  much  around  here   
   except  that I am now more aware of what's up in the sky,"  Green   
   said.   
        Fyffe  assistant police chief Fred Works indicated that  the   
   "only way it has affected my life is my job.  I have to talk to a   
   lot more people now than I did before."   
        Fyffe Police Chief Junior Garmany said,  "Basically, it goes   
   with  this line of work.   We are always dealing with the  media.   
   But,  this  has  been slightly out of  the  normal.   We're  just   
   sitting back and waiting for things to get back to normal."   
        I could not reach Jill Worley or her sister Rhonda Gipson.   
        As for Teri and myself,  it is getting a little easier to go   
   about our day-to-day activities.   Friday, we could not even work   
   for having to answer the telephone or talk to news crews.   
        It  has  been  a  learning  experience  for  me.    Being  a   
   reporter,  I  am accustomed to asking the questions and doing the   
   interviewing.  It has been difficult to be the one interviewed.   
        All  the people I talked to who reported the sightings agree   
   on one thing.  that given the same set of circumstances, we would   
   have spoken out about what we saw.   
        The  people  have the right to know what is going on in  the   
   sky above.  Now, if we just knew.   
      
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