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SUBJECT: SIGHTING REPORT FROM RAINSVILLE ALABAMA FILE: UFO1262
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: February 16, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Weekly Post
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LOCATION: Rainsville, Alabama
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BYLINE: Susan Stockman
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THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE
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AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION
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SERVICE
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By Susan Stockman
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Numerous sightings of a mysterious aircraft were
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rep[reported to DeKalb County law enforcement officers Friday
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night.
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From Lickskillet on Lookout Mountain, to Grove Oak on Sand
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Mountain, calls started pouring into police departments around
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8:30 p.m. about an object "sometimes hovering above the treetops"
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to an object "streaking through the sky."
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The craft was not only observed by numerous citizens, but
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several law enforcement officers also reporting it.
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The first report that something was flying over DeKalb
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County came around 8:30 p.m. to the Fyffe Police Department from
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a Grove Oak woman.
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The woman said she had watched the object for over an hour
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through a pair of binoculars.
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The woman told The Weekly Post that she and her sister were
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returning home from Fyffe when they saw a low-hovering, bright
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white light just above the treetops.
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The woman, who asked to remain unidentified, said when they
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were within one-half mile of her home, the object appeared to be
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behind her home.
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She said she then rolled down the windows of her car, and
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couldn't hear any noise.
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When she turned into her driveway, she said the object
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disappeared.
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While her sister ran into the house to get their husbands,
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the woman went to a truck parked outside and retrieved a pair of
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binoculars to see if she could follow it through the sky.
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She said she could see the object on the horizon, looking
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toward Collinsville.
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The object was not moving, she said, and appeared to be
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shaped "like a banana, with a red light on each end, and a white
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light in a line between them. The top of the curve was outlined
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in green lights."
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The object turned, and the green lights "looked like a
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fireworks display," according to the woman.
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After calling the Fyffe Police, a patrol car was dispatched
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to the woman's home, and according to Fyffe Assistant Police
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Chief Fred Works, when they arrived, the craft was still
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hovering, and when they got out of the patrol car and started
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walking toward it, it began moving away.
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The craft then reversed directions and flew over the heads
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of the surprised officers.
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The officers estimated the craft's altitude at 1,000 to
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1,500 feet, but they said they were still able to get a good look
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at it.
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One of the officers said it appeared as if the white lights
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underneath the craft were shining upward, illuminating the
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bottom.
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After disappearing from the Grove Oak area, the craft was
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spotted by an Alabama State Trooper and by officers in
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Crossville, Geraldine and Collinsville.
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A Lickskillet resident called the DeKalb County Sheriff's
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Department and said he "shot at the craft as it topped trees at
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his home, with a 12-gauge shotgun."
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An official at the Sheriffs Department said the man was
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"terrified. He was about to have a heart attack, and his wife
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was screaming."
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Officials in Huntsville, Birmingham, and Maxwell Air Force
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Base in Montgomery were all unable to explain the sightings, and
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a National Weather Service spokesperson said that the description
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of the craft "doesn't match any kind of weather balloon we have."
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The woman that first spotted the craft Friday night saw the
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object again Saturday night, in the same area, but said it seemed
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to be "further away on the horizon than it was Friday night."
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She called officers at Fyffe again, and the officers came to
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her house.
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When they arrived, the craft was gone, but, according to the
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woman, it reappeared, and she watched it on and off for several
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hours.
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According to authorities, the craft is still listed as an
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unidentified object.
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