Kecksburg UFO Witness- James Romansky- Passes Away
From Stan Gordon
(Copyright Stan Gordon)
I was sad to learn that James R. Romansky passed away on August 18, 2021, at his home in Derry, Pennsylvania. Jim was 76 years old.
Jim was a volunteer fireman in 1965 when the Kecksburg UFO incident occurred. I met Jim in 1987 when my research group was holding a large UFO display at the Westmoreland mall in Greensburg. Jim was not from Kecksburg, but he went to that area when his volunteer fire company was called out along with other departments to respond to search for a possible downed aircraft. A search was conducted in a large, wooded area outside of that rural community. Firemen reportedly came across a large metallic acorn shaped object semi buried in the ground.
According to Jim, the object was large enough for a man to up stand inside of. The object was a bronze-gold color, and appeared to be one solid piece of metal, displaying no rivets or seams. At the back of the acorn shape was what Jim called the bumper area. Upon that section of the object were unusual symbols that Jim said looked similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Romansky, who was a machinist for many years, said the object itself looked as though it had been constructed from liquid metal that had been poured into an acorn-shaped mold.
After our initial meeting, Jim agreed to meet with my team and try to find the location in the woods near Kecksburg where he saw the object on the ground in 1965. He had not been out to that location since that day in 1965. He recalled certain landmarks from that area and he took us into the woods near a dry wash where he felt the object had fallen. In the years to follow, other independent witnesses unknown to each other took me to that same exact location from different entry points.
Over the years I conducted numerous interviews with Jim. I met his family and talked with people who knew him during his life. For years, Jim kept his involvement in the Kecksburg incident confidential until he went public to tell his story in 1990 when Unsolved Mysteries featured the case. Jim never changed his story and he believed that what he saw on the ground that day was something that was not man-made. Jim was always hopeful that the government would someday confirm that an object did fall from the sky that day in 1965. We are all still waiting for that to happen.
My prayers go out to Jim’s family. May he rest in peace.