SUBJECT: 3500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON FYFFE TO SEE NO-SHOW FILE: UFO1273 NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: March 9, 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 ======================================================== 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. ================================================================= ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************