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- APn 03/04 1224 UFO Hoopla
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- FYFFE, Ala. (AP) -- The prospect of seeing a UFO lured more than 4,000 people
- to the town of Fyffe, greatly outnumbering the town's residents.
- "This is unreal," Police Chief Junior Garmany said Friday night while he
- watched bumper-to-bumper traffic in the town of 1,300 people in northeastern
- Alabama. "We've never had traffic like this."
- Municipal Court Clerk Tammy Mitchell said Saturday the previous night's crowd
- had been estimated at "4,500 or something like that." She said people were
- "riding around, buying T-shirts, going to a bonfire."
- But for all the hoopla, no unidentified flying objects were sighted Friday.
- Visibility was obscured by clouds and light rain.
- "I hope it rains tonight," Ms. Mitchell said Saturday.
- Friday night's visitors drove up and down the town's main street while others
- stood gaping at the sky. Fire Chief Ricky Dobbins invited some to his house on
- the outskirts of the town where he built a bonfire.
- Police radio dispatcher Shelia Smith said she has been answering calls from
- people wanting directions to Fyffe.
- Fyffe got on the UFO circuit Feb. 10 when a woman reported seeing a strange
- light in the sky and police later reported seeing a large lighted object
- passing silently over them. Numerous other sightings have been reported since
- then.