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