SUBJECT: SOME SAY UFO IS AS BIG AS FOOTBALL FIELD FILE: UFO1277 NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: March 16, 1989 SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Weekly Post LOCATION: Rainsville, Alabama BYLINE: None ======================================================== THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE ======================================================== 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. ================================================================= ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************