Published: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 / Updated: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 10:54 PM
NASA: No records found on 1965 Pa. UFO sighting
PITTSBURGH --
The leader of a group that seeks to bring more credibility to the subject of UFOs isn't happy with NASA.
Leslie Kean leads the all-volunteer group called the Coalition for Freedom of Information. The group is trying to get NASA's records for a 1965 event about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
News reports from the time had witnesses describing a "fireball" in the sky, then a large, metallic object that landed in the woods.
To settle a lawsuit from Kean's group, NASA agreed to search some of its records. The space agency says it can't find any records.
Agency scientists have repeatedly denied any manmade craft landed or crashed. Yet NASA spokesman David Steitz told The Associated Press in 2005 that the object appeared to be a Russian satellite. Attempts to get comment from NASA's press office on Veterans Day were unsuccessful.
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