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You told me your's, so I'll tell you the two stories that convined me.

In early '99 we lived on Ft. Stewart GA and I had a very dear friend who lived just a couple of blocks form me. Now this is the most pragmatic, down to earth woman that I've ever known and her middle boy is as level-headed as you've ever met. (He was about 17 at the time.) I went over to have some coffee and she called her son into the room. This kid is quite the shy, "Yes, ma'am", respectful young man and when she asked him to tell me what he saw the night before his entire body went rigid. He said that he was walking home from a friend's house when he noticed that all the crickets suddenly went silent. He noticed movement above his head and looked up to see a triangular craft with three lights, about the size of a football field floating above the treetops. It was so close that it actually brushed the tallest of them. It moved silently and slowly (about 20 MPH). Sensible young man that he is, he ducked between two houses and ran as fast as he could home. Honestly, I only believe him because I heard him tell the story. I know this kid well and he was scared.

I heard the second story just two months after the first. My best friend at the time lived in Texas and she was a total night owl. She was sitting in her back yard talking to another owl when a bright spot-light came out of nowhere and lit up her back yard. No sound. It played around a bit, went out, then reappeared about half a mile away after just a couple of seconds.

Here's where the story gets interesting. The next morning she called me and I "ooed" and "ahhed" and make all the appropriate noises. Interesting. Cool. I got things to do. That evening I was watching CNN when they played a story about mysterious lights that were seen the privious night all over the south. (All I really remember was Alabama, but they listed a few states.) They had an interview with a cop who'd chased it and footage from a security camera. I called her up and told her to get a tape in the VCR (as they did the 30 minute roll over). Well, I waited. I watched CNN for about three hours straight and they never replayed the story.

I finally gave up and found the story on their website which I emailed to my friend. Here's the twist; the next day the story was gone. A dozen searches at the CNN website and net searching my fingers off didn't turn it up again. All I remember was that it was December of 1999 when it aired.

So now, not only am I a UFO nut, but I'm also a conspiracy nut. 8-p~~

That evening I was watching CNN when they played a story about mysterious lights that were seen the privious night all over the south. (All I really remember was Alabama, but they listed a few states.)

When I saw your interesting story back in August, I filed it away until I could get to it. I finally got to it and here's what I found. As is typical in these cases, it was attributed to a "meteor." :-)

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SHOW: Fox Report
December 06, 1999, Monday PM ET
Fox News Channel
Cable Programming START: 35.53
UFO. A strange light in the middle of the night was caught on tape in Alabama. A Univ of Alabama researcher says it could be light from a meteorite.
Visual - Strange phenomenon.
END: 36.40
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Fox Morning News
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: KTTV-TV
START: 31.41
UFO Lights. A surveillance camera in Alabama caught part of a UFO sighting. David Garcia reports.
Visual - Genesis III Publishing video of UFOs.
Interview - Lee Elders, UFO watcher, about continuing UFOs in the sky, and apparent intelligence in the sky, and objects seen stopping and hovering, and reactions of military groups in the sky.
Visual - The Phoenix lights, seen in 1997.
Interview - Brit Elders, sky watcher, about activities of UFOs.
Visual - Object in front of moon, other objects. The Elders say that Earth is not ready for intelligent contact as of yet.
END: 34.36
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SHOW: Fox 2 News Morning
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: WJBK-TV
START: 15:10
UFO/ A light streaking across the Alabama skies have many talking about different theories.
Visual - video of streak of light. Some say it was a meteor. Officials from the Natl. Weather Serv. says it seems so. They are investigating.
END: 15:31
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SHOW: Extra: The Entertainment Magazine
December 07, 1999, Tuesday PM PT
NETWORK: KNBC-TV
START: 01.09
Teased Segment - Mystery in Space. The Mars Polar Lander may be a $165 million bust, but today, there is a new mystery. There was a fire in the sky that terrified people across three states.
Visual - Store footage of the flashing light.
Interview - Residents talks about the sky lighting up like it was daylight.
Interview - Don Wolthrop, UFO expert, says that the tape is really interesting.
Visual - Clip of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Interview - Wolthrop says that he has heard people talk of stories about seeing the bright light. There are several air force bases around the little town in Alabama, but they all say that they weren't running drills.
Interview - Dr. John Mosely, astronomer, says that the people apparently saw a large meteor explode in the air. Doug Bruckner reporting.
END: 03.04
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SHOW: Good Morning Arizona
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: KTVK-TV
START: 37.35
Teased Segment - Strange lights
Visual - Strange lights seen in the skies over Montgomery, Alabama. 911 operators flooded with UFO reports. National Weather service says witness accounts are consistant with meteor.
END: 37.50
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