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