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SUBJECT: MYSTERY OF METEOR ROAD STILL UNSOLVED FILE: UFO1291
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: July 10, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Tribune-Review
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LOCATION: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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BYLINE: None
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(C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service
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All Rights Reserved.
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THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE
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AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION
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SERVICE
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DENVER, COLORADO
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NOTE: THESE FILES ARE NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE
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OF THE PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE NETWORK
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MYSTERY OF METEOR ROAD STILL UNSOLVED
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By The Tribune-Review
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There's no telling who'll show up in Kecksburg August 13
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when the Community Day Parade trumpets the 50th anniversary of
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the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.
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A chance exists that someone will boldly go beyond the
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inspiring tales of firefighting heroics into another world to
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debate whether a UFO or meteor landed in a wooded area off Meteor
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Road -- that's right, METEOR ROAD -- 24 years ago.
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Talk threatens to climb beyond the stratosphere ever since
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a Japanese television crew visited the area in Mt. Pleasant
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Township earlier in they year. The footage shot -- no one seems
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to know what will be highlighted -- will form part of a two-hour
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special scheduled to air in that country later in the year,
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possibly September.
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Lore about what happened on Dec. 9, 1965, encroaches on the
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Zone of Beyondo Bizzaro.
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The Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson Air
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Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, won't comment on whether its
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personnel were running around Meteor Road that day.
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The township supervisors thought enough of what occurred
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then to christen the byway as Meteor Road. As expected, the road
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signs disappear as fast as a shooting star, said township
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Secretary Ray Zimmerman.
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"They're a big item," he says.
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Kecksburg Fire Department President Jim Mayes was on the
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road that day, looking down into a field as military personnel,
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state police and a swarm of authorities converged to do something
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mysterious and keep area residents from seeing it.
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"I remember it like it was yesterday," said Mayes. "We had
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the four-wheel-drive truck and we took the military down. They
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kept people there all night. There was a tractor-trailer and a
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couple other vehicles, and I still say they took something out of
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there. The big thing about it was the blue blinding lights --
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like a timing light."
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The field of Jerome and Valeria Miller was tramped through
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by Boy Scouts a day later, searching for the magnet that would
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later draw college students from the University of Colorado and
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the film crew from Japan.
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Valeria Miller was not at home at the time of the most
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famous drop-in since John Martin Keck started the village of
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Kecksburg in the 1860s.
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Stan Gordon, who heads the Pennsylvania Association for the
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Study of the Unexplained, hasn't completely ruled out that space
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debris -- and not a UFO -- went down in the area.
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But the easier to swallow suggestion has choked one
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eyewitness who disputed that theory in talking with Gordon.
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The eyewitness, identified only as Pete by Gordon, said the
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object resembled a giant metal acorn and contained writing that
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"looked like hieroglyphics" on part of its raised surface. The
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object was supposedly loaded onto a flatbed trailer, covered with
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a tarp and hauled to an unknown location.
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Gordon is in search of more witnesses who might want to come
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forward on what made the noise heard around the world, and
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whether, just by chance, anyone might have seen anything leave
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that area before authorities arrived.
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8/89
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