Kecksberg-UFO.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Kecksburg Files. The Kecksburg Files UFO researcher's video explores several theories about 1965 crash in Westmoreland County Wednesday, September 09, 1998 By David Templeton, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Since the uncertain events of Dec. 9, 1965, debate has raged, friendships have soured, rumors have waxed, theories have arisen and Internet stories have proliferated over what crash-landed that day in the rural village of Kecksburg, Westmoreland County.
The military insisted it was a meteorite that was never recovered. UFO skeptics have held that, if not an outright hoax, it was surely something as explainable as the Soviet Venus probe, Kosmos 96, or an experimental American spacecraft that went flip-flop into Kecksburg's midsection only to be recovered by a quick and secretive military. All of which has transformed the event that happened 33 years ago into one of America's most intriguing UFO mysteries. Kecksburg UFO crash. By Richard Frager.
Posted May 7, 2006. 40 years ago on Thursday, December 9, 1965, at about 4:45 p.m. EST, a bright fiery object hurtled across the sky above the Great Lakes, leaving a smoky trail in it wake, until it finally came to ground at Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, about forty miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The passage of the fiery aerial object was witnessed by many ground observers in several states, as well as by pilots in flight over Lake Erie. As the object veered southeastward over Pittsburgh, calls reporting sightings of it jammed the phone lines of police, the news media, and the Allegheny County Observatory. Most witnesses thought they were observing a plane going down in flames. Apparently, it did not gain enough over the last ride when it crashed.
Upon their return a few minutes later, the state police fire marshal ordered the woods sealed off. Add UFO and Paranormal News to Your Site. Kecksburg Ufo Crash. Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter and receive detailed Ufo Sightings and Pictures sent to your email address.
Kecksburg Ufo Crash Information - The following article was posted in The Gazette newspaper online. People in Kecksburg want to resolve what fell from the sky in 1965 For a detailed story of eyewitness accounts that you won't find in this article that was published in the mainstream media click on the right.. Kecksburg. The Kecksburg UFO Crash, UFO Casebook files. Note: On November 1, 2003, NASA released some forty pages of documents that are supposedly related to the Kecksburg incident. You can see these documents on our site. The documents are all in the .PDF format, which requires an Acrobat Reader, which is available here: ACROBAT READER.
Go to: NASA- Kecksburg documents. Kecksburg 1965: The Classic UFO Case - UFO Encounters (UK) Author: Paul Geraghty - Updated: 19 November 2012| Comment Kecksburg is one of the classic UFO cases. Kecksburg UFO incident. A model of the crashed object, originally created for the show Unsolved Mysteries, and put on display near the Kecksburg fire station.
The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, USA. A large, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in at least six U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. It streaked over the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario area, reportedly dropped hot metal debris over Michigan and northern Ohio,[1] starting some grass fires[2] and caused sonic booms in Western Pennsylvania.[3] It was generally assumed and reported by the press to be a meteor[4] after authorities discounted other proposed explanations such as a plane crash, errant missile test, or reentering satellite debris.[5] However, eyewitnesses in the small village of Kecksburg, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, claimed something crashed in the woods.[6] A boy said he saw the object land; his mother saw a wisp of blue smoke arising from the woods and alerted authorities.
I Saw The Kecksburg UFO! Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research original source | fair use notice Summary: It was a warm December night in 1965.
I was 14 years old and my cousin John was 12 years old as we left my house to sneak a few cigarettes down the alley. We lived in the suburban community of Bridgeville; 12 miles southwest of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Report By Doug Yurchey It was a warm December night in 1965. Something pierced the night's sky over my left shoulder. There was no sound. John and I immediately reacted. Thirty-eight years had passed.
Very recently, on television's Sci-Fi Channel, they showed previews of ' Kecksburg Exposed.' I looked forward to this because they were calling it the 'new Roswell' and it happened in the Pittsburgh area; my home town. I certainly should have heard of this event and I'm a little ashamed that I'm not that up on UFO history. In an old newsreel film, an interviewer asked a very young Kecksburg resident: 'What did it look like? ' Read more articles on this topic: