SUBJECT: SPACE/ASTRONOMY/UFO/ASTRAL EVENTS FILE: UFO3126 Odyssey News Wire-- *** Classification *** ÚÄ¿ ³û³ Space/Astronomy/UFO/Astral Events ÃÄ´ ³ ³ Monsters/Strange Creatures ÃÄ´ ³ ³ Unknown Happenings/Paranormal/Psychic Events ÀÄÙ * Odyssey Newsclippings may NOT be crossposted into non-Odyssey echos without permission of Odyssey Administration. ÚÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄ¿ ³o³ ³o³ ³o³SOLUTIONS OFFERED FOR BAT SIGNAL ³o³ ³o³Times, Gadsden, AL Feb 23, 1993 ³o³ ³o³ ³o³ ³o³ An Etowah County woman thinks she has solved one of ³o³ ³o³North east Alabama 's UFO riddles. ³o³ ³o³ Last week, Susan Eads video taped a bright light over ³o³ ³o³her Fort Payne home. When she used the camera's zoom ³o³ ³o³lens on the light, the result was an image with some ³o³ ³o³similarities to the light used to signal Batman, the ³o³ ³o³fictional super hero of comic book, television and movie ³o³ ³o³fame. Law enforcement officials who viewed the light ³o³ ³o³agreed it was unusual. ³o³ ³o³ Sunday, a Hokes Bluff woman videotaped a similar light ³o³ ³o³near her home on U.S. 278. ³o³ ³o³ Also on Sunday night, Mary Buffington saw what she and ³o³ ³o³her husband determined was a bright star in the sky ³o³ ³o³over their Duck Springs Road home. She had taken her ³o³ ³o³video camera outside after Sunday's severe ³o³ ³o³thunderstorms in hopes of documenting some of the hail ³o³ ³o³that had fallen. ³o³ ³o³ She decided to tape the bright star. She was ³o³ ³o³surprised when she zoomed her video camera on the ³o³ ³o³light. ³o³ ³o³ "It looked exactly like the image that was in the ³o³ ³o³newspaper," Mrs. Buffington said. "I was panicking. I ³o³ ³o³thought I've seen the space ship, or whatever it was." ³o³ ³o³A photo from Ms. Eads' videotape ran in Saturday's ³o³ ³o³Gadsen Times. ³o³ ³o³ Then, by accident, Mrs. Buffington moved the camera ³o³ ³o³and caught a neighbor's security light in the lens. ³o³ ³o³She focused. The Batman signal appeared. She tried ³o³ ³o³another security light. Again, the Batman signal ³o³ ³o³appeared. ³o³ ³o³ Mrs. Buffington thinks it's just the effect of ³o³ ³o³zooming a video camera in on a bright light in the ³o³ ³o³night sky that somehow creates the strange image. ³o³ ³o³ While Mrs. Buffington described the light she taped ³o³ ³o³as a bright star, Ms. Eads and Marie Edwards don't ³o³ ³o³think they saw a star. ³o³ ³o³ Ms. Eads said the light was much brighter than any of ³o³ ³o³the stars in the sky over Fort Payne last Thursday ³o³ ³o³night. Ms. Edwards said no stars were visible Sunday ³o³ ³o³when she saw the light in the area near Calhoun County. ³o³ ³o³ Until the Sunday sightings, all reports of strange ³o³ ³o³lights in the night skies had come from DeKalb County. ³o³ ³o³Reports began in late January and have continued this ³o³ ³o³month. ³o³ ³o³ Ms. Edwards also went outside Sunday night to check on ³o³ ³o³the result of a hailstorm. She saw the light about 8:30 ³o³ ³o³p,m. She said it stayed in the same place for about an ³o³ ³o³hour before it appeared to move behind some trees. Ms. ³o³ ³o³Eads also had reported that the light she taped stayed ³o³ ³o³in one Piace for a long time. ³o³ ³o³ According to a report in today's Birmingham Post- ³o³ ³o³Herald, some people may be mistaking the planet Venus ³o³ ³o³for a UFO. Thomas Wdowiak, a physics professor and ³o³ ³o³astronomer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, ³o³ ³o³said the planet is very bright right now and atmospheric ³o³ ³o³conditions could make it resemble a spacecraft. He said ³o³ ³o³Venus will be right next to the moon on Wednesday ³o³ ³o³night. ³o³ ³o³ Those making earlier reports of strange lights in ³o³ ³o³DeKalb don't buy Wdowiak's explanations, the Post ³o³ ³o³Herald reported. Sue Johnson of Dog Town said what she ³o³ ³o³saw out side her home on Jan. 28 after hearing a ³o³ ³o³humming noise was a long, ova]-shaped aircraft hover ³o³ ³o³ing below the treetops. ³o³ ³o³ Geraldine police dispatcher Susan Austin said what ³o³ ³o³she saw and videotaped wasn't a star because it was ³o³ ³o³moving. A photo taken from her tape appeared in the ³o³ ³o³Gadsden Times. The image was compared by some to the ³o³ ³o³light pattern of a Stealth bomber. The Air Force ³o³ ³o³discounted the possibility that it was a Stealth. ³o³ ÀÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÙ ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************