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SUBJECT: DERRY MAN "IRKED" BY UFO SKEPTICS FILE: UFO1162
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TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Greensburg, PA-Sept. 15, 1990
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By Sharon Santus
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Tribune Review
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A Derry man who maintains he saw an unidentified flying
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object after it allegedly landed in Kecksburg 25 years ago
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said he is fed up with those who scoff at his account.
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James Romansky, 44, of Derry, publicly came forward a
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few weeks ago to tell his story.
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Since then, a group of Kecksburg property owners have
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accused Romansky and another alleged witness of perpetrating
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a hoax.
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A re-creation of the alleged landing will appear on
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NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" Wednesday at 8 p.m., and the
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property owners say their community could owners say their
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community could be deluged with hoards of sightseers.
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Just before sundown on Dec. 9, 1965, witnesses reported
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seeing a fiery orange object streak across the sky over
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Michigan, the tip of Ontario and western Lake Erie. The
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fireball continued its descent and was spotted over
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Westmoreland County skies. Some witnesses said it landed in
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a wooded area near Kecksburg.
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Romansky, who was an 18-year-old Lloydsville firemen at
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the time of the incident, said he and four other volunteers
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drove to Kecksburg late that afternoon after hearing a report
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about a downed plane.
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Romansky, a machinist with Latrobe Die Casting Co., said
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firemen were organized into search parties and began
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patrolling the Kecksburg countryside.
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He said his group was notified that another search party
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found the downed aircraft, and, when his crew arrived at the
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scene, they discovered a bizarre sight.
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"We couldn't believe what we saw," Romansky said. "It
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was no plane. There were no wings, no tail section, no
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portholes or doors."
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Romansky described the object as 8 feet in diameter, 12
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feet long and acorn-shaped. He said it had a copper/bronze
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finish and was wrapped with a band of strange letters that
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looked like hieroglyphics.
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He said he and other firemen stood about four feet from
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the object for about a half-hour until two men who appeared
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to be from the military ordered them away.
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Other witnesses said an empty, military transport truck
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drove to the scene and left some time later with a tarpaulin-
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covered object on the back.
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But the Kecksburg property owners say Romansky and
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another man who said he saw the alleged object are
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fabricating the incident.
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They say an object may have passed over the area that
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night but never landed anywhere near Kecksburg.
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"These people are letting themselves wide open for a
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slander suit," Romansky said. "They're making out I'm some
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kind of liar, faker or idiot."
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While his account may differ from that of the property
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owners, Romansky said, he doesn't feel he should be subjected
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to ridicule.
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"They don't have to run me into the ground," he said.
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"I don't do that to them."
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Romansky said he had never met the other witness to the
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alleged landing until a few weeks ago, but their accounts to
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investigators over the years were strikingly similar.
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"We described the exact location where this thing came
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down, the color, shape, markings, everything was similar,"
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Romansky said. "I saw what I saw, and no one can tell me
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different."
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