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this is fife Alabama a small farming

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Community set in the heart of the South

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where in the past year and a half some

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very strange things have been happening

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our chief this crowd really looks pretty

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quiet just another bunch of UFO Hunters

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this film focused on the strange

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occurrences in Fife as a way of drawing

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attention to teen drinking and driving

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it's been very effective but for those

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who've never heard of the tiny southern

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town it can be somewhat baffling prepare

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yourself for the truth it is truly

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Stranger Than Fiction

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Susan Stockman is a reporter for a local

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newspaper and has been covering the

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story for nearly a year and a half

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it began February the 10th 1989.

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I was on a Friday night Donna Siler made

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the initial report she was the first one

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to call the police

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and five and so that she had saw

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something in the sky that she could not

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identify we saw this bright light and

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you know how you just say well what's

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that over in the sky and she's what must

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be a straight light on the mountain

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somewhere I said you're on the mountain

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there's nothing else any hiring us well

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the further we got closer to it we just

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kept watching it realized it weren't

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moving and I said now when we get one at

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a good Clear Spot we'll stop the car

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because sometimes things look like

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they're not moving when you're moving

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and

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right over the tree line out of the

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house

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so when we got right here I said right

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there it is I said we'll see if this

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thing's moving we stopped the car had

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the windows rolled down it was looking

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straight at it and then we only got to

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watch it about 10 more seconds and it

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just went out

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Donna and her family then used

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binoculars to watch an object floating

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in the sky just over the horizon

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we all stood out here and watched it

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probably an hour trying and it moved

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very slowly in that area it probably

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didn't move four inches across the sky

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in that hour

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so that's when I went in called the

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police department

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yes ma'am I've seen an officer as soon

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prev West had a call from a lady around

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Kelly's Chapel said she saw an object

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with some lights on it in the sky she

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thinks it's a UFO and she needs to Now

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sort of come check it out

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you got to be a kid fife's assistant

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police chief on duty when Donna sailor's

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call came in was understandably

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skeptical

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so the chief walked into the

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station about that time I was about to

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walk out and I asked him if he wanted to

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go check out a

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a UFO sighting kind of kidding and he

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said sure I told him I said I'm serious

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we got a call

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so we drove down County Road 76 toward

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Ms sailor's house and we saw an object

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to our

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to the south of us we just stopped on

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the road we were still several miles

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the light glowed brightly and didn't and

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eventually moved off to the southeast

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again the officers pursued

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departments and adjoining communities

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who confirmed the strange object the

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officers turned back toward Fife they

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stopped when a nearby police chief

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called to say that an immense craft was

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headed their way

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more stopped in this

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in a driveway

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and got out and saw an object coming

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toward us

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appeared to be an airplane

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at first cut the engine Junior the men

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described the craft as a triangular

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shape metallic in color with three huge

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lights Illuminating the underside and

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though it was only 2 000 feet off the

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ground it made no noise

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their experience was only the beginning

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we've seen a variety of shapes

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my some of my neighbors have seen them I

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have seen them my husband my daughter

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sometimes the objects are

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just like a round ball

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we've seen triangular shaped objects and

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we've seen elongated objects Susan and a

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weekly post photographer Terry Baker

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captured the strange lights on film one

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evening

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we're at the police station at five when

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someone called in that the

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they decided the UFO so we went to the

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area where

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the people had seen the UFO

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and we parked the car and soon after we

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got the car parked we saw it and I got

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my camera out

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we saw an object

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that had two oh had a red light on each

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end of it and had a row of blue lights

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across the middle of it Terry made a

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series of pictures and while some would

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say they are inconclusive most would

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agree the object does not resemble the

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pattern an airplane would create

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have the mysterious Fife lights affected

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the small community

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yes but in a strange ironic way

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it's it's not a reaction to the objects

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it's not a reaction to the possibility

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of alien life it's a reaction to human

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beings coming in and making fun yes

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ma'am flying saucers

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uh-huh

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well thanks for calling man we'll check

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on it for you goodbye this may be five

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but my name sure ain't Fife Alabama

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population 1200 since February 10th many

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of the locals believe UFOs have come

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here to watch us as soon as we park

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their car we could see the object on the

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horizon between the two tallest trees

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slowly

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towards the left from the left towards

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the right on the horizon we never took

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our eyes off of the object the object

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just disappeared Susan Stockman reporter

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for the Rainsville weekly post was in

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Fife last week with the photographer

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hoping to get a picture of the UFO she

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and the neighbors had been seeing these

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are the photographs that Terry took

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Thursday night you can see the movement

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of the object across on the horizon

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above the trees and you can see where

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it's um

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went at an altitude just before it

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disappeared from our side Stockman's

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positive there wasn't an airplane but a

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spaceship she can't say others who are

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sure didn't have a camera but their

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descriptions are selling T-shirts and

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drawing crowds from several States

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doubling phi's population every Friday

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night UFO Skeptics are not impressed

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they say all sightings can be explained

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logically this is the town of Fife in

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Northern Alabama the heart of what is

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commonly known as the Bible Belt the

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people of Fife still live the same kind

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of Lifestyles their ancestors lived here

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at the turn of the century you could say

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that Fife Alabama is the most normal

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place you've ever seen but what happens

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here after the sun goes down isn't

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always normal

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on the evening of February 10 1989

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residents from all over the county

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Deluge the switchboards of local law

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enforcement agencies some callers

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reported seeing a beautiful Flying

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Saucer rimmed by bright multicolored

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lights hovering silently and flying off

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into the distance at a snail's pace

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others watch the large triangular object

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with three large white lights underneath

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one local resident phoned the five

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Police Department after watching a

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crescent and triangular shaped object

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pass over the Treetops

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as the woman reported the object she

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asked for a patrolman to come out and

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look

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five police chief Charles Jr garminy and

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assistant chief Fred Works

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half-heartedly got into their patrol car

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and headed out to the community of Grove

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before they could reach their

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destination they heard officers from

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neighboring police departments on their

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radio all reporting strange objects in

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the sky objects that made no sound

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objects they couldn't begin to recognize

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in less than a minute Chief garmony and

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assistant chief Fred Works spotted one

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of the objects a lady A lady called an

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object in the sky in and the chief

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myself went out to check it out and we

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saw a bright

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a bride white light in the sky before we

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ever got to her her location

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and uh we stopped and and watched it it

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was like maybe two fingers Over the

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Horizon over the treetop Horizon

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and appeared to be moving at a very slow

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pace

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and it would get brighter and then

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dimmer almost like a light turning

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towards you and then away from you

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so we stopped the vehicle and observed

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it for a few minutes just I don't know

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two or three minutes and decided we

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would try to drive toward it we radioed

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to town

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down south of us and I believe their

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Chief was on duty at that time and he

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confirmed that he saw the object and it

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appeared to have some blinking lights on

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it like maybe a red and green colored

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lights a police officer from

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cross bill

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radioed and said that he told us his

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location and said that a large object

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had flown over him at a fast pace

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flying in a west and south Direction

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well evidently we were

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in the path of that object we stopped

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and got out and looked back toward the

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east

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and I saw this object coming over the

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and it appeared to have

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kind of a I don't know like a white

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lights on it they were they weren't

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actually Shining

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where they were real bright you could

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just tell they were on it and there was

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kind of a glow of the lights around it

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I told Junior I said there's I said

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there's the object he's talking about I

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said it appears to be an airplane

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and I said well I I said if it don't

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look exactly like an airplane it's it's

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the front

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but they were not shy they weren't

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shining at the ground they were like

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shining back up

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on the craft itself so I asked the chief

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it's a cut cut the car engine off and

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like I said there was no other

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background noises the car was that you

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know we we shut the engine down it was

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dead and here this big object come

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flying over and I mean if you

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you know put your hands up like this

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that's about how big it looked to you

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bigger than a beach ball you know

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as big or bigger and uh

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we watched it fly over us and then we

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turn you know no sound whatsoever we

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watched it go off

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never a sound it would have been looking

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down at the ground would have never

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known it was there Fred and I uh pulled

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over on the side of the road on County

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Road 43 and stopped their patrol car

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shut the engine off and got out and at

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that time the object came directly over

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uh our patrol car and we were looking up

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underneath it

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and

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the the object appeared to me that it

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was some thousand fifteen hundred feet

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higher had three real bright lights

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underneath it that were

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shining not on the ground to eliminate

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the ground but shining back up

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underneath the craft to illuminate the

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craft itself

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and there was some some lights around

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what I call the face of the craft or the

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crown of it whatever you may call it uh

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appeared looking up through the the

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glare of those other lights uh

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maybe green blue or red or or some of

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them might have been white it was a

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large craft

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and it had no sound whatsoever it just

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continues then it's you know it didn't

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descend or pick up any speed or anything

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just a steady speed just right over us

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and and went right on out of sight

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sometime after that now after 89 of

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February 10th we had several calls the

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other night of February the 10th we had

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several calls and they've been scattered

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reports ever since then I had a person

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to come in just last night

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Marty Roberts in a robo carrier came in

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and he described this this object to me

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and and Drew me a diagram of it on the

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paper and it was something similar to

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what I'd seen on February the 10th of

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89. and he's seen that this past date a

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lot of the people who are telling the

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stories or people that I know personally

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and have known for a lot of years and I

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don't have any reason to doubt

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what they say they saw but nobody is

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telling me what it is they don't know

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either they just know it's something

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that's very unusual you've heard the

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term Southern Hospitality Sand Mountain

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is the epitome of southern hospitality

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people up here trust each other a lot of

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the things that they do are done by

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handshake rather than by contract

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in The Trusted The Outsiders too until

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the Inside Edition pays we sent Jeff

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Cole down there to see if E.T has a

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Southern accent

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it came from outer space I still believe

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police were helpless there's nothing

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that I've ever seen before in my life

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and the town of Fife Alabama was stunned

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by the strange visitors my dog saw it

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but he won't talk about it he wouldn't

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crawl on the floor and I know that's

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what's happening because he he talks to

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thank you

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five police chief Junior garmony and

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assistant chief Fred Works got the call

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and went out to investigate what they

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figured was some well Monkey Business

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whatever it was they saw it will be a

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long time before Fife forgets the things

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from out of this world there's some

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people that's gone ridicules for it some

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people disbelieve it but I hope them

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people themselves just a view of one of

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these days they may be coming to see you

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next

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[Music]

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there is a legitimate investigation

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going on down there if you can believe

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it the FAA and the Air Force are doing

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that investigation and if any of you

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martians are watching this broadcast

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please drop by to see us and bring Elvis

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with you

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Straight Ahead we'll get back to reality

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what was the reaction to the job they

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did

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they spoofed the incident they made it

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to appear like a Keystone Cops kind of a

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program and the people up here didn't

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like it at all

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uh they thought they were here in good

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faith so they showed them the southern

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hospitality and when the program came

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out they were incensed not just the

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people in the faith but the people of

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the whole area were very very angry at

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what Inside Edition did it was

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ridiculous I went inside edition came in

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to do their piece everybody was welcome

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we made them tried to make them feel at

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home and

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be a part of the community

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but after the Inside Edition piece ran

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on TV the the Outlook toward the media

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was completely different

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it wasn't hostile it's just they didn't

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get any help

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was slow and coming you had to uh

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show good faith that what you were doing

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wasn't going to be like what Inside

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Edition did

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people are still seeing things up here

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they're not as frequent as they were

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during that time but there are reports

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of seeing things in the sky almost

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constantly

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I don't mean every day but I mean hardly