The 1947 Romeo Community Sightings
Greeneville
On July 9, 1947, the Greeneville Sun published a gripping article about a strange, otherworldly sighting in the quiet, unincorporated Romeo community. According to the report, Bart Carter, his wife, their teenage sons Eugene and Edmund, the Conduff family, including their 12-year-old daughter, and several others witnessed an extraordinary phenomenon in the sky. A series of bright, spherical UFOs appeared from the east, moving in erratic zigzag patterns toward the south. Just as quickly as they would vanish, they would reappear, completing their unpredictable maneuvers again and again.
The sighting wasn’t just fleeting. Some 15 to 20 "flying saucers" remained visible for a full 30 minutes, hanging in the sky in a seemingly deliberate formation. The entire event left the witnesses astounded, their lives interrupted by the eerie, unexplainable spectacle overhead.
Two weeks earlier, the young girl from the Conduff family shared her own eerie experience with the reporter. She described seeing three mysterious crafts hovering above Greeneville at around 9:00 PM. Unlike the others, these UFOs glowed a haunting mix of yellow and red, and the girl insisted they were the size of washing machines. Whether these were the same objects or something else entirely, the sightings left a lasting imprint on those who witnessed them.
The strange occurrences in Romeo raised more questions than answers, and decades later, the mystery continues to intrigue both locals and UFO enthusiasts alike. Were the lights simply an unexplained natural phenomenon, or did they hold the answer to a far bigger mystery?