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Times-Journal, Fort Payne, AL Jan. 30 1993

DOGTOWN - Sue Johnson was drying her hair before
leaving for work early Thursday morning when a
strange, unearthly hum rose above. thc noise of the
hair dryer, accompanied by an odd vibration throughout
her mobile home.
She clicked off the dryer and walkd to her kitchen
window, preparing to look upward into the sky,
thinking the noise must be a low-flying aircraft.
"This thing was eye-to-eye," she said, moving across
the pasture toward me. I've never seen anything like
it. I don't know what it was; but I do know it was not
an airplane or a helicopter."
Sue ran to her back door, flung it open and peered
into the cold 5 a.m. darkness. "It was moving below
the treetops about three car-lengths along my back
yard fence." she pointed to show the spot. "I could
tell its image by the red and green iights pulsating
on it. It was about half the length of my 65-foot
trailer."
She stood, transfixed, until the object guided to
the end of her trailer, out of sight; then she ran to
the front door, hoping to keep it in view.
"I never saw it again," she shrugged. "It just
disappeared."
Sue immediately called her mother, Shirley Akins.
The first thing my daughter asked me was do you
believe in UFO's? said Mrs. Akins. "I told her any
thing was possible. I do believe my daughter. She is a
level-headed person."
Mrs. Akins and Sue said a co-worker who lives in the
area mentioned at work Thussday she heard the same
sound around 5 a.m. And later that evening, at 6:30
p.m., Williams Akins of Adamsburg reported seeing the
object, which Sue sketched in the typical shape of `fat-in-the-middle-and-tapered-on-the-ends."
"I didn't want to say anything about this," Ms.
Johnson added. "I know people think you're crazy if
you do. Normally, I'm the type person where I don't
believe anything like that until I see it for myself.
Thursday was just a normal morning for me."
Ms. Johnson says she doesn't necessarily believe in
aliens, but feels the craft is nothing that mainstream
America is aware of.
"I don't know what this thing was. I was sizing it
up from one end to the other. I stood there for
several seconds. I was so amazed at what I was
seeing, it just blew me away."
Ms. Johnson said she knew very little of the
internationally publicized Fyffe UFO spotted by
numbers of residents (including Fyffe Police) in Feb.
1989, but her description of the Dogtown UFO closely
resembled those offered in Fyffe.
Mrs. Akins has notified the Federal Aviation
Administration, who suggested she call Agent Glenn
Slaughter with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Attempts to reach Slaughter in Gadsen on Friday were
unsuccessful.

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