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Kecksburg cashes in on UFO mystery

Ronnie Struble of Kecksburg presides over a growing financial empire UFO buffs are calling the "Roswell of the East."

OK, maybe it's not an empire yet, only a room in the basement of the Kecksburg Emergency Medical Service. But the fire department in this rural Westmoreland County hamlet has parlayed a 42-year-old mystery into a source of revenue that helps to pay the bills.

"Punxsutawney has its groundhog," Struble said. "We got the UFO."

Or do they?

The question of what dropped from the sky near Kecksburg has never been resolved, at least not to the satisfaction of UFO watchers and neighborhood folks who saw it.

On Dec. 9, 1965, a fiery object streaked through the sky from Canada across ...

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