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