Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're looking at the 1989 five Alabama UFO.
That's correct, the 19895 Alabama UFO.
Now this was a UFO seen by a lot of people, this large triangular
object. The thing about it that made it
so interesting was so many of the eyewitness reports just
corroborated each other. It was impactful on the
community. In fact, today they still have
what they call the Fife UFO Days Festival held every August.
And before I get into this, I just wanted to read this excerpt
about what the police chief and assistant police chiefs said
they saw that day. And this comes to us from
landmarksdekalb.org. I have the link at the Buy Me a
Coffee website. It says Fife Police Chief Junior
Grimani and Assistant Police Chief Fred Works responded to
the call. The following reports quote well
outside five city limits. They saw something in the sky
and attempted to chase it. At that time he says me and Fred
were on County Road 43, said Chief Garmini.
They got out of the car as they saw a UFO coming in their
direction. Quote the object came on over
and got straight overhead, said Assistant Chief Works.
So if they they're chasing this thing, they stop the car, they
get out, they look up. So it's just like something
straight out of a Hollywood movie.
And here they see this giant UFO passing overhead.
It was big, wide and appeared to be a wide triangle shape.
We kept waiting to hear the sound.
We kept looking at each other and saying where's the sound?
We never heard anything. I just can't just imagine these
two police officers there back in 1989 here in rural Alabama.
They're standing outside their car, they're looking up in the
sky and they see this giant wide triangle UFO silently fly
overhead. It doesn't get any more just
down home and truthful in that account right there as far as
I'm concerned. It says over 100 news
organizations from throughout the world.
Conversion on five. What I saw the first time was
like nothing I ever saw before. It was not a helicopter.
It was not a plane, not a sound, Chief Garmini stated.
Wow, that's pretty neat. I I just, I just love the
imagining in my mind what these guys, what you know, what they
saw, what that scene looked like with these two officers just
standing there dumbfounded, looking up in the sky and the
fact that they had the courage to talk about this and just
approach the subject honestly and openly.
Now I want to look at this next article here talking about these
UFO sightings that happened down there in Fife, Alabama in 1989.
This first article that we want to look at here is from whnt.com
whnt.com dated August 24th, 2022 written by Zach Hester.
The title says Little Green Men Question Mark The History Behind
Five UFO Days Celebration. Now it has a picture here of a
saucer shaped UFO with kind of a Dome on top and around the edges
of the saucer. It's kind of almost like a
corrugated look. How it kind of, you know, zigs,
I don't know, like a like a saw tooth pattern around the metal,
very weird looking, a pretty substantial object and I'm just
thinking about that compared to the triangle shaped object
described by the two law enforcement officers.
We'll get to that in a minute. It goes into the article a
little bit. It says the story begins on
February 11th and 12th, 1989. On those two nights, more than
50 people in a town of just under 2000 claimed to see a UFO,
according to landmarks at the Gallup County.
That's the article that we just looked at.
It says those who spotted it described it as hovering at an
angle with bright lights at the top, bottom and center and it's
curvature outlined in green. At the time of the sightings,
Junior Grimani was the town's chief of police and Fred Works
his assistant. Chief News 19 spoke with Sheila
Smith, the dispatcher who took the initial call for the
unidentified object. Quote.
When Junior and them went out and looked at it, they said it
looked like a big banana, Smith explained.
It didn't have any sound and now and they kind of chased it
around. So you see we're kind of getting
these different descriptions of the shape and size of it.
This could very well have been one of these shape shifters
because we heard the one officer talk about it being a triangle.
Then we hear it described as a banana and this picture shows a
saucer shaped craft according to landmarks to DeKalb County.
Garmani stated in a report that he and Works tried to chase the
object down Road 43. Work said the object appeared to
be a wide triangle that produced no sound whatsoever.
What I saw the first time was like nothing I ever saw before,
Gulmani said after the sighting. It was not a helicopter, it was
not a plane, not a sound. Smith, who spent 14 years as a
dispatcher with Fife police, said the object caused an uproar
in town with news camera and salesman making banana shaped
earrings descending on Fife. Now they have a picture, a
photograph here of an old newspaper clipping and it's got
an arrow pointing at what someone took a photograph of
which would have been for all intents and purpose of banana
shaped UFO, weird. Now this article that we're
looking at here from this website whnt.com.
They've posted a couple images here from newspapers at the
time, which is really cool. This one here is from February
10th. It says staff writer LaRue
Hardinger. Attention from UFO Unreal.
And it begins to says Fife police chief.
This is written back in 1989. Keep in mind, Fife Police Chief
Junior Dramati and Assistant Chief Fred Works, who 11 days
ago got a close up view of an unexplained unidentified flying
object 3 miles South of town, said reporters have kept him
busy and have prompted and have prompted some fun poking that
they believe is not really fair. This is unreal, Garmani said,
producing a stack of telephone messages from reporters in
Alabama, Illinois, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Maryland,
Colorado, California and Ontario, Canada.
This is the first time we've run into anything like this, Garmani
said. Two earlier UFO sightings by
police in the area, in 1975 and in 1977 did not elicit a
fraction of press coverage as the one that bewildered a score
of DeKalb Countians on the night of February 10th.
Works, who has good, naturally tolerated the teasing that
followed. News reports, said reporters
have hounded him since the sighting first hit the scanner.
Wow, these guys had a lot of courage coming out talking about
this. Now it's got this illustration
here says this is an illustration of what the Fife
officer saw in the sky on February 10th.
You have basically a backdrop of a starlit sky and then you have
what I would describe as kind of a rounded triangle shape.
OK. And within that more of a well
shaped like a triangle but four sides.
What do you want to call that? A quadrangle I guess with three
circles inside that and then lights on the outside.
I have to wonder if this thing wasn't changing shapes as they
saw it it. It just must have been just so
unnerving for these two officers to have been out there looking
up in the sky and seeing this crazy thing.
And then they've got an example, some of the cartoons that people
were making and below that they have a picture.
It says this is the first photograph of the object.
It appears just over the horizon and above the treetop level.
The very small semi bright object in the background are
stars. The object is much brighter than
the stars and then it has this image and like I said, it's kind
of banana shaped and I can't tell that's because of things
moving or that's just like what they're describing is this
banana shaped UFO. You can see the trees below it.
If this is all just like one, if this image is the actual UFO
itself, then this thing must have been huge, really neat.
And then, of course, at the very top of the article they have
this Polaroid picture. Somebody took it, says Facebook
user Bill Potter. This photo known as the UFO
Polaroid last year to the DeKalb County, Alabama Historical
Group. It was taken by Ted Oliphant and
his and is believed to be genuine.
Oh, that's cool. And this thing just looks like a
classic saucer shaped craft. So very neat, all these people
saw this thing, but they're having, you know, just slightly
different experiences as they saw.
But to me, the most reliable of course would probably be the
police officers. And then these photographs,
especially this saucer shaped craft taken in this Polaroid
photo right here. Really neat stuff.
Now I want to look at another article here.
Now I found this Sun article, thesun.com and I'll have that
link at the Buy me a Coffee website.
Basically just goes over the same stuff, but there's at the
end of the article it adds on some really cool details.
It says, speaking about this photograph that everybody has of
this saucer UFO taken by Ted Oliphant.
It says the lasting image from that historic night was a photo
of the object taken by Ted Oliphant that the Alabama
Historical Society believes is a genuine, legitimate photo.
Four years later, talking about after the first sighting,
Oliphant was a Fife police officer investigating
unexplained cattle and other animal slaughters in the area
that some residents believed were done by aliens.
So here you have this mass UFO sighting and four years later
what do we have? Cattle mutilations.
The mysterious mutilations investigated and the 1989
sightings were mentioned in archive newspaper clappings.
We're going to look at those which made the Fife and
surrounding towns the UFO capital of the of the country at
that time. Regardless of all of fonts, UFO
pull rates, authenticity. Residents of the five square
mile town which is located in the northeast section of the
state celebrate the event during a summer festival.
Now think about that, you've got these sightings, this guy, that
the guy that takes a picture of this UFO four years later is
working as a police officer and he's put to work investigating
these these cattle mutilation cases.
Really something. So we had this wave of UFO
sightings in 1989 there in Fife, Alabama and then four years
later, well less than four years later, actually October 1992.
So just about three years later we had this wave of cattle
mutilations and that were investigated actually by Ted
Oliphant who was the guy that took the this flying saucer
picture from the UFO wave that happened back in 1989, fall of
that year. Now I have the links up there at
the Buy me Coffee website for this newspaper article.
It's really neat. This is from April 7th, 1993.
It says Fife press conference and it begins by saying on April
7th, 1993, a press conference on the cattle mutations in DeKalb
in Marshall County which was held in Fife, Alabama.
The Investigative Officer Ted Oliphant presented the follow up
following report. Beginning in November of 1992,
the Fife Police Department has been conducting an investigation
into unexplained cattle relations in cooperation with
neighboring police and law enforcement agencies.
These reported incidents began on October 20th, 1992 and
continued through the last week and Marshall in DeKalb County.
So that was almost exactly three years after the first UFO
sightings, the date over. To date, over 30 animals have
been discovered dead in patients with various internal and
external organs missing. The incisions examined on these
animals exhibit precise surgical cutting.
In many of the cases, there has been evidence of extremely high
heat at the tissue excisions. The absence of physical evidence
adds to the mystery At the majority of mutilation sites.
Though many animals have had been found in soft pasture land
and in many cases mud, there have been no footprints, tracks
or marks found anywhere near the mutilated animals.
In multiple cases, there is even the absence of the animal's own
hoof prints in the ground. See, this tells me that things
were just lifted straight up off the ground.
To date, no police agency has established A suspect or motive
for these incidents of phantom surgery perpetuated on area
livestock. Neither has an eyewitness or
informant come forward to offer any credible sight or testimony.
I I wanna go back to this saying no footprints, tracks or marks
found anywhere near the mutilated animals.
Well, we know the cow didn't drive there.
They had to walk. So if they're in soft ground or
mud, why weren't there any tracks leading to where the
animal's body was? Could someone please explain
that to me? How did these things just end up
in an area with no tracks around?
They flew there. The first documented incident of
cattle emulations was reported on October 20th, 1992 by Alberta
Vero by by Albertville cattle farmer John Strong.
The animal was discovered in a wooded area of Mr. Strong's
pasture by a neighbor who found the animal dead lying on its
side. The animal's entire milk sack
was missing, with no evidence of blood on the animal, nor on the
ground where it lay. There you go again, not a drop
of blood. We see this so often, these
cattle emulation cases. The neighbors said the neat Oval
incision where the udder had been removed appeared to be
charred. Other farmers in the Albertville
area soon started reporting similar cases.
Over the next two months the same organs were reported
missing, though what was taken varied from animal to animal.
In many cases, the rectum had been coored out neatly, with no
evidence of blood or body fluid present On female livestock.
The sex organs had been removed in an identical fashion with
clean, bloodless incisions on male livestock.
The sex organs had also been removed again in Oval, bloodless
incisions. In early January, Albertville
Police Department's Chief Detective Tommy Cole reported
that his ranch too had fallen victim to the Mutilators when a
black Angus steer fell prey to the phantom surgeons.
It was at this point that the Fife Police Department began
working closely with the Albertville Police Department to
further investigate the continuing incidents of
mutilations. A week after Chief Detective
Cole reported his steer, the Mutilator struck again in
Albertville. The next week, mutilated cattle
were reported near Fife and Grove Oath A week later in
Dawson, just outside of Fife. During the first week in
February 1993, more than nine cases of mutilations were
discovered and reported in Marshall and DeKalb counties.
Throughout all the cases, cattle farmers and their neighbors
reported seeing or hearing helicopters in the vicinity
either before or shortly after mutilated cattle were
discovered. Comparison to other cattle
mutilations documented by law enforcement and 48 other states
since 1963 shows cases recently documented here in northeast
Alabama are part of a national problem and over 10,000 reported
cases of livestock mutilations recorded since 1960.
Sevens The organs and tissue taken are always the same sex
organs removed, tongue cut deep into the throat and removed.
Individual eyes and ears are sometimes both have been
excised, the jaw stripped to the bone and large Oval cuts and all
tissue cut clean. Rectums are cord out, almost
like a stovepipe has been inserted and all the tissue and
muscle has been pulled out. All of this has been
accomplished on these thousands of animals with no evidence of
blood present at the incision. In some cases the entire blood
supply of the animal has been drained, yet without
cardiovascular collapse. Can someone please explain where
all this blood's going at? And this is this article here,
written back in 1993. So the same thing happening 30
years later. Throughout the documented
history of these cattle relations, no one has ever been
charged or prosecuted with the crime.
No one has ever been caught. Recently, many area residents
and public officials have offered multiple causes and
suspects they believe may be responsible for these animal
wounds. Some say it's predator animals
like coyotes or buzzers. Many people believe it's the
work of a satanic cult or college students.
However, evidence collected and analyzed by PhD scientists of
material collected from local animals and pictures clearly
rules out both groups. On January 13th, 1993, a rancher
in Dawson in the Dawson community LED investigators to a
carcass of a black Angus cow. The animal's genitals and rectum
had been cored out in one large incision that left a hole the
size of a coffee can. The animal's jaw had been
completely stripped in an Oval incident that encompassed the
entire right side of the animal's face.
The tongue was completely gone, cut deep down into the throat,
but there was no blood present on the animal itself, nor on the
ground surrounding it. Further examination revealed a
flaky white material on the animals right rib cage and on
the ground five feet from the carcass.
The material was placed in the empty wrapper of a cigarette
pack and transported to the Fife Police Department where it was
transferred to a glass jar. While removing the flaky
particles from the cigarette wrapper, the material came in
contact with the brass tip of a ballpoint pen.
Within one second of contact with the brass, the material
melted into an almost clear liquid.
To reduce the risk of this happening to the remaining
material, the rest was shaken out into the jar where it
remained unaffected. This white flaky material was
then air expressed to a molecular biologist at a leading
Eastern university for analysis. After two tests, the scientists
determined that this substance was composed of aluminum,
titanium, oxygen and silicon in significant amounts.
He stated that the amount of titanium was larger than he
would ever expect to see in any substance and that there was no
way this combination elements could ever occur.
Nature. This material has now been sent
to another scientist for a second opinion.
When this second analysis is completed, we will release this
name, his name, and the major Eastern university responsible
for the analysis. And then it goes on talks a
little bit. It's quite a long article
actually. I don't read the whole thing.
Seems like maybe Oliphant got into a little bit of conflict
with some of the press. Of course you can imagine this
is a guy who had this experience with this first UFO that showed
up over Fife, Alabama. He takes a picture of it, it's
clear Polaroid picture of this large flying saucer type UFO.
And then four years later he gets a job as a police officer
in the small community of 14145 people.
And wouldn't you know it, they started having these
catalymulations roll in. Actually, the catalymulations
start three years after the UFO sightings due and then when he
does his investigative work along with other police
officers, they find this material that couldn't possibly
be man made. What kind of reaction does he
get from the press? Well, he's the kind of reaction
you would expect, the debunking reaction.
So it's so strange to me how so often with these UFO sightings.
You start in one place and the more you look into it, the
further you go down the rat hole.
We start out with a couple of police officers responding to a
UFO report. They're standing outside their
police cruiser looking up in the sky and seeing this giant
triangle shaped craft flying overhead, which leads to more
sightings craft kind of varying in shapes and sounds, which
leads to three years later reports of cattle mutilations
over 30 cattle found mutilated in the area.
And when they find the cattle, they're laying out there in the
pasture with no tracks around. So how did they get there?
No answers to that. All we get are replies of
debunking. So it's a little town first in
dated by by a wave of UFOs, like it's being scoped out, possibly
for a place to hunt Cadillac. And then three years later we
have over 30 cases unexplained cattle mutilation where these
things are ritualistically mutilated, having part of their
bodies taken out. And if so, it's it's so
serendipitous to me that the very person that took the first.
Picture of this UFO in 1989 is the officer who was
investigating the cattle mutilations in what, 199293?
And instead of being lauded as hey, good job trying to find out
who's doing this, He means nothing but opposition and
ridicule from the press while he's trying to do the job that
he's been paid to do. What a strange rabbit hole we go
down when we get into this whole UFO thing.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning Over now.