“I can't go there. My family and I are going to a festival in my hometown,” he said bluntly.

She paused for a moment, then began, “I believe you said you grew up in a town with one red light and fewer than 1,000 people.”

“I did, but this festival is a tradition for us. We make plans to go every year.” He looked at her, a little confused.

“I've heard of it. What festival was it?” she answered confidently, sure she could remember the name.

“UFO Days”.

She stopped dead in her tracks, quickly realizing she'd never heard of the festival before. She stifled a little chuckle at the absurdity of the name. Little did she know that the story behind this annual festival was even stranger.

The little town of Fife sits atop Sand Mountain at the start of the Appalachian Mountains in northern Alabama near Fort Payne. The town itself may be unremarkable, but the town's history is far from it. While many people in the state are well aware of the town's relatively recent history, some are completely unaware that the little town of Fife once attracted worldwide attention. Fortunately, DeKalb County Landmarks We've compiled information about this incredible event.

The first call came into Fife Police Station in the early afternoon of February 11th 1989. Reports of a mysterious object began flooding the phone lines.

When asked to elaborate on what they saw, one witness shared the following information: “There was a bright light at the top and bottom and a really bright light in the middle. The curved part was outlined in green.”

Throughout the afternoon and the following day, Fife Constabulary received calls from concerned local residents and after compiling around 50 reports, they were able to establish that the object seen by witnesses had been hovering at an angle in the sky between 1pm and 7pm.

One of the first calls led Fife Police Chief Junior Garmany and Deputy Chief Fred Works to investigate the incident. They quickly noticed something in the sky and began to follow the object. “Me and Fred were driving down County Road 43 at the time,” Garmany said. The pair pulled over and left their car when all of a sudden they saw an object coming toward them.

“It just flew right over us. It was big and wide, it looked like a wide triangle. We kept waiting to hear a sound. We kept looking at each other and saying 'where is that sound?' We didn't hear anything,” the deputy operations chief said. “The first thing I saw was nothing I'd ever seen before. It wasn't a helicopter. It wasn't a plane. It wasn't a sound,” Garmany said.

The historic Fife incident was covered by over 100 media outlets around the world, and drew many visitors to the town to learn more about the mysterious phenomenon that occurred. To commemorate the incident, the town hosts the annual Fife UFO Days festival, bringing the local community together with food, games, live entertainment, hot air balloon rides and more.

Courtesy: SoulGrown Alabama.