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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 9, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Weekly Post
LOCATION: Rainsville, Alabama
BYLINE: Susan Stockman ========================================================
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3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW UFO

By Susan Stockman

FYFFE-A thousand points of light descended on Fyffe last
Friday night as people from all over the Southeastern United
States visited this small town in hopes of getting just a glimpse
of what has become known around the world at the infamous 'Fyffe
Flying Banana.'
For the most part, the UFO stalkers were disappointed,
because the only lights to be found in Fyffe on this cloudy night
were those from the magnitude of vehicles roaming the highways
and byways.
While the estimated 7,000 eyes of the 3,500 people in Fyffe
were focused on the horizon Friday night, unofficial reports came
in that the craft was sighted in the sky between Macedonia and
Grove Oak around 9:00 p.m. that night.
A traffic jam in the middle of town was the most exciting
event that took place all night, and most of the side roads
looked like a lover's lane, with cars parked on the sides and
necks stuck out the windows--watching and waiting.
They came in cars, vans, campers and trucks, armed with
cameras, binoculars, blankets and thermos bottles of coffee, all
on the same mission--to see the mysterious, flashing object that
has been roaming the night skies of Fyffe for the past month.
A bonfire was built on the edge of town to lure the
visitors, both from this world and, perhaps, beyond.
Antenna's were pointed at the sky as television stations
broadcasted their nightly news programs from this small town.
Media descended on the town like locusts, interviewing
everyone that had an opinion of what was in the sky--and there
wasn't anyone who was in Fyffe that didn't have an opinion.
Fire trucks were moved out of the fire station to make room
for a vendor to set up tables to sell air brushed T-shirts that
said, "I survived the Sand Mountain UFO."
UFO seekers ran the gamut from babies blanketed in mothers'
arms, to teenagers cruising with radios blasting, to someone's
grandmother who said she had had an experience with a UFO some
years back.
Fyffe has received worldwide attention in recent weeks,
after the first sightings of a 'banana-shaped' object hovering
over the area was sited by Donna Saylor of Grove Oak on February
10. Since the first sightings, many more have been reported, but
the description differed somewhat from the original banana shaped
object.
Representatives of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object
Network (MUFON), an international research group involved with
UFO studies, were also in Fyffe Friday night, and there were
unconfirmed reports of FBI agents and Air Force investigators in
town.
Fyffe has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles
and national news stories such as 'Inside Edition,' who aired a
somewhat comical report of the sightings.
But the residents of Fyffe who saw the mysterious craft
don't find anything comical about the sightings. They just want
to know what it is, and they continue to search the night skies
for another glimpse of the craft, waiting for someone to come
forth with information to identify the object.
With the party atmosphere that prevailed in Fyffe Friday
night, the UFO could have, in all probability, landed on the
outskirts of town and no one would have seen it--the people were
just too busy searching the skies.

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