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- HED: Jesup up in the air over UFO sightings
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- BYL: By Jingle Davis Special to The Journal
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- JESUP, Ga. Warren Purvis says it was as tall as a skyscraper. Purvis
- said someone later tried to convince him he'd seen Northern lights. 'It
- was not,' Purvis said emphatically. 'That thing was round and that
- sucker was moving, and I was not drinking, but I did shortly thereafter.'
- Dozens of sober, reliable Wayne County citizens, including a deputy
- sheriff, an auto mechanic and Purvis, a former county commissioner, can't
- seem to quit talking about the unidentified flying objects they saw on a
- recent evening just after dark. Wayne County Sheriff Jim Poindexter said
- Wednesday that on the night of April 26, nearly 30 people called to say
- they had seen brightly lit objects of spectacular dimensions which made
- no sound but cruised above the treetops at speeds of around 100 mph.
- All of the callers insisted the objects were not airplanes, helicopters
- or any other recognizable flying machines. 'Most people described them
- as something with amber lights flying over the tree tops,' Poindexter
- said. 'I know it was something, but we haven't been able to find out a
- thing about what it was.'
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- The sheriff's office checked with the Army's Fort Stewart, about 30
- miles away, to ask if the military was testing anything that might
- account for the strange sightings. 'We don't believe it was anything
- from the base,' said Fort Stewart spokesman Dean Wohlgemuth. Wayne
- County Deputy Bill Ingram was eating dinner with his wife at home when
- their poodle, Candy, started barking at something outside. 'We looked
- and saw five amber lights, two up and three down.' Screven resident Ray
- Poppell said he and his family saw two large objects hovering above the
- treetops. 'All of a sudden the field in front of our house got real
- bright, like it was on fire,' said Poppell, an auto mechanic. 'I went to
- the door and saw these two objects shaped like big W's with lights on
- every point.'
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- IND: wayne/county; space; oddities