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Nov 11, 2009 11:58 pm US/Eastern

Sighting In Kecksburg Remains A Mystery

KECKSBURG (KDKA) ― It's been a mystery for more than 40 years.

What did people see flying across the sky in Kecksburg, Westmoreland County?

"The streak looked like an orange rooster tail out of a jet," Ron Struble, chairman of the UFO Festival committee, said.

Stan Gordon, of Greensburg, has been studying what it was for years.

"As this thing came in over the greater Pittsburgh area, the news media was just deluged with reports because a lot of people thought that this may have been an airplane on fire coming across the sky," he said.

A replica of the object now sits in Kecksburg.

"One witness who was very close to it who knew metals very well, he said it looked like someone took liquid metal and poured it into an acorn-shaped mold," Gordon said.

There have been television shows filmed about the incident. The military reportedly forced onlookers away and the event was described as a meteor flying across the sky.

NASA repeatedly denied anything manmade landed in Kecksburg.

But four years ago, NASA told the Associated Press that it appeared to be a Russian satellite that broke apart when it reentered the atmosphere.

Now a lawsuit from a group seeking more information has resulted in NASA's searching of records but finding nothing that mentions an unidentified flying object landing in Kecksburg.

Whatever it was or wasn't, they're making the most of it in Kecksburg with a store at the fire hall celebrating the mystery.

But some still want to know more.

"This report very likely did exist at one time. It could well have been destroyed, it could be misplaced, you know it could be hidden under some other labeling that nobody [would] be able to search for and we could go on forever and ever," Gordon said.

Some witnesses reportedly said that the military removed an object from that site and took it to an airbase in Columbus, Ohio.

Of course, that was a very long time ago.

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