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  The Kecksburg Files
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.
But UFO researchers, who say the Kecksburg incident is second only to the one at Roswell, N.M., in terms of drama and potential, have suggested with as much imagination as fact that it was alien visitors who chose Kecksburg as their Sea of Tranquility.
The Kecksburg crash occurred in the middle of the Cold War and the space race, and America was especially interested in heat-shield technology.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19980908ufo1.asp   (1841 words)

  
 The Kecksburg UFO Incident
On 9th December 1965 the Kecksburg UFO was seen by thousands of people in at least six states across America and Ontario, Canada, passing over the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Canada area, the fireball reportedly dropping metal debris over Michigan and northern Ohio, and causing sonic booms in western Pennsylvania.
The official explanation given for the Kecksburg UFO was a medium-sized meteor.
Because of similarities between Kecksburg and The Roswell Incident in New Mexico, the Kecksburg UFO has become known as "Pennsylvania's Roswell".
www.where-is-area-51.com /kecksburg-ufo.html   (625 words)

  
 The Kecksburg UFO incident - PittsburghLIVE.com
While the fireball reportedly was seen in four states, it landed in a wooded area near the village of Kecksburg, near Mt. Pleasant.
All the witnesses interviewed said that the object in question was large, metallic, acorn-shaped, with hieroglyphic markings, and partially buried in the ground.
There will also be a restored Kecksburg UFO monument on display behind the fire station, put together by the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department UFO and Festival Committee.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/dailycourier/news/s_401174.html   (769 words)

  
 Roswell UFO incident - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Roswell Incident briefly received national and even international attention in 1947, but after it was reported that the crash was of a weather balloon and not a "flying disk", the event faded from public view for over 30 years as most people simply took the government's word at face value.
According to Balthauser, in 1997 the International UFO Museum in Roswell received a phone call from a man claiming to be the son of an MP who had been at the base in 1947.
The Height 611 UFO Incident was a 1986 Russian crash with analysis of physical debris.
www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Roswell_UFO_incident   (11500 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kecksburg UFO incident
The official explanation of the widely-seen fireball was a mid-sized meteor, however, speculation as to what the Kecksburg object had been (if there was one — reports vary) also range from it being an alien craft to the remains of an unmanned Soviet Venera 4 atmospheric probe, also known as Kosmos-96, originally destined for Venus.
They concluded that the fireball was descending at a steep angle, moving from the southwest to the northeast, and likely impacted on the northwestern shore of Lake Erie near Windsor, Canada.
About the only monument to the UFO incident was a large bell-shaped metallic object made by Unsolved Mysteries to be used as a model for a story that they did on the incident.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO_incident   (1387 words)

  
 New age / unidentified flying object / kecksburg ufo incident
Others from Kecksburg, including local volunteer fire department members, reported finding an object in the shape of an acorn and as large as a VW Beetle.
The JRASC article negative result is often cited by skeptics to debunk the notion of a Kecksburg UFO crash.
In December 2005, just before the Kecksburg crash 40th anniversary, a NASA spokesman finally admitted NASA had examined metallic fragments from the object and now claimed it was from a re-entering "Russian satellite." Furthermore, the spokesman claimed all records were lost.
www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/kecksburg_ufo_incident.htm   (1184 words)

  
 incident kecksburg pennsylvania
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, often misspelled as "Kecksberg", is located once resided in Altoona, Pennsylvania, not too from the scene of this mysterious incident.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 1965 The importance of what was seen streaking across the skies of Pennsylvania...
They were informed that the incident was under control and that their...
www.pennsylvania-bookmarks.com /incident_kecksburg_pennsylvania.html   (495 words)

  
 UFO Evidence : Kecksburg UFO Crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
UFO Evidence is one of the Internet's largest sources of quality research and information on the UFO phenomenon.
An object landed in the tiny town of Kecksburg, PA on December 9, 1965.
A researcher backed by cable television's Sci Fi Channel plans to sue NASA for records she contends the agency has of a UFO that reportedly crash landed and was recovered by government workers in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1965.
www.ufoevidence.org /topics/kecksburg.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Kecksburg Crash
He was a teenager living near Kecksburg, and he says that he remembers it like it was yesterday.
Gordon was there from the first, as a teenager listening on the radio and watching TV coverage of the event, which happened near his home town in Pennsylvania.
UFO Investigator and Reporter Brian Vike wrote us on 10/22/05: "I received an email from a gentleman who told me he had been witness to the crashed object at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
www.jerrypippin.com /UFO_Files_kecksburg_crash.htm   (857 words)

  
 Kecksburg UFO Crash - Text Report From Telephone Interview With Witness
He also stated that what hit the ground was certainly not a meteor, he wasn't claiming it to be a UFO as he just didn't have any ideas to what it was he saw.
As the months and years passed by and things settled down over the event that took place in Kecksburg, it was a few years later when Larry enlisted into the Airforce as a aircraft fighter mechanic, and was stationed at Hamilton AFB which is located in Marin County, CA.
Without making a case for the origins of UFOs, Hill argues that their functionality is feasible by applying established principles of physics to existing reports in which an amazingly consistent UFO behavior has been described.
www.ufoinfo.com /news/kecksburg.shtml   (2526 words)

  
 The Kecksburg UFO Crash
They reported that their team had come within sixty meters of the objects and they had seen an object on the ground that had smashed its way through the trees.
And that is the amazing story of the Kecksburg crash which is a crash that has many interesting details and many witnesses that have gradually and over time come forward and released there information.
It is certain that something crashed in Kecksburg but what that was remains to be uncovered.
www.alienationsam.com /historic_ufo/kecksburg/kecksburgcrash.html   (1695 words)

  
 The Why Files website your portal to unexplained phenomenon. Discover the facts about UFOs and Alien Visitation
Noting that "Kecksburg is one of those historic, unexplained incidents that requires a full public accounting," Leslie Kean, an independent journalist and research director of CFI, said that she has recently filed Freedom of Information Act requests to numerous federal agencies and military services seeking records from their involvement.
The UFO buzzed the Pittsburgh area and turned...which, of course, indicates that it was not a natural phenomena.
Kecksburg, Pa. -- NASA is facing a lawsuit to get it to release what it knows about claims of a UFO landing in Westmoreland County.
www.thewhyfiles.net /kecksberb2.htm   (3027 words)

  
 Reports and Sightings :: UFOs : Gourt
Kecksburg PA UFO Incident - A petition for information disclosure regarding the Kecksburg Pennsylvania UFO incident.
UFO Over Whixley North Yorkshire 1977 - Description of a UFO sighting over Whixley, near York, North Yorkshire, UK in May 1977.
UFO Sightings Over New England - A collection of UFO reports regarding the 6 New England states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
society.gourt.com /Paranormal/UFOs/Reports-and-Sightings.html   (641 words)

  
 Massachusetts Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Fall 2006 Conference
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Massachusetts MUFON, the Massachusetts State Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the nation's largest UFO investigative organization, is pleased to announce that it will host an evening conference on Saturday, October 14th, 2006 that will feature some of the East Coast's most intriguing UFO cases.
He has been involved with the examination of thousands of UFO and other strange reports from across the Keystone State, and has been the leading investigator researching the Kecksburg UFO case for many years.
www.massmufon.com /Fall-Event_2006.html   (321 words)

  
 UFO AREA - UFO & Alien Encounters
The UFO incident involved multiple witnesses, which mainly consisted of police officers from a number of small Illinois towns...
UFOs and the National Security State is a thorough historical analysis of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon.
This is the complete report on the UFO sighting by the Japanese crew of a jumbo freighter aircraft in November, 1986.
www.ufoarea.com /main_sightings.html   (6918 words)

  
 The Kecksburg UFO Crash, UFO Casebook files
In January 1980 UFO investigator Clark McClelland interviewed the assistant fire chief of Kecksburg, James Mayes, and Melvin Reese, another fireman.
On 08-29-05, the UFO Casebook received this information from a person who was an eyewitness to the object that soared over Kecksburg.
The Kecksburg crash, in many ways similar to the Roswell case, remains an extremely interesting one, and is still considered an "unsolved" case.
ufocasebook.com /Kecksburg.html   (1813 words)

  
 UFO Area The Kecksburg UFO incident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He started investigating the UFO incident over the years, making contact and interviewing numerous eye witnesses and consulting experts to post to his UFO/Bigfoot research Web site, www.stangordon.com
Gordon is the organizer of a special event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Kecksburg incident, to bring more witnesses together and even attract new witnesses who may be now willing to tell the group what they saw.
He will speak about the current status of the lawsuit filed against NASA in 2003 to gain access information about the Kecksburg incident.
www.ufoarea.com /events_thekecksburgufo.html   (749 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS
The Kecksburg incident remained a topic for area radio talk shows for years as it does today.
Before Unsolved Mysteries broadcast their story about Kecksburg in 1990, I was contacted by a former Air Force security policeman who told me that he was among the unit that guarded the object from PA, when it arrived in the early morning hours of December 10, 1965 at Lockbourne Air Force near Columbus, Ohio.
He told me that he has had an interest in the incident for years since he had a relative who worked at the pentagon at the time, and this relative had made a special trip to this area to investigate that matter.
www.rense.com /ufo2/kecksburg.htm   (1869 words)

  
 Google Directory - Society > Paranormal > UFOs > Reports and Sightings
UFO maps and statistics from over 18,000 filtered sightings worldwide, for all dates.
UFO Map: The Empty Quarter of the Sea
UFO captured on film within the Low Country Region of South Carolina, USA.
www.froogle.com /Top/Society/Paranormal/UFOs/Reports_and_Sightings   (299 words)

  
 Unexplained Mysteries :: 40th anniversary of Kecksburg UFO incident
Since 1990, Horrigan, of Watertown, Mass., has visited the scenes of incidents widely believed to involve unidentified flying objects, including three trips to Roswell, N.M., and one to Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Horrigan was there Saturday, along with about 250 others, observing the 40th anniversary of a still-disputed accounting of what happened on Dec. 9, 1965, that over time has drawn an international eye to this tiny farming village in Mt. Pleasant Township.
Each testified that military and police officials restricted all access to the woods where the crash is believed to have occurred, left the scene with the suspected object in tow on a flatbed trailer, and subsequently denied finding anything.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=57049   (233 words)

  
 Shag Harbor - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Atlantic Daylight Time, it was reported that a UFO had crashed into the waters near Shag Harbor, on Nova Scotia's South Shore (on the east coast of Canada).
The Rescue Coordination Center and the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Desk in Ottawa (the agency responsible for the gathering and investigation of UFO reports) tagged the sighting as the crash of a "UFO".
It also mentioned UFO reports that immediately preceded the crash, including one from a women in Halifax around 10:00 p.m.
www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Shag_Harbor   (1591 words)

  
 Walker_Kecksburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stan Gordon was contacted, the chief investigator into the Kecksburg crash.
After some discussion, it was decided that Dr. Armen Victorian would do the interview related to the Kecksburg crash with Dr Walker.
It is about an incident which happened in the mid 60s, on December 9,1965, in Kecksburg.
www.presidentialufo.com /walker_kecksburg.htm   (286 words)

  
 Sci-Fi Backed Researcher Sues NASA For UFO Files
Tuesday's filing will mark the 38th anniversary of the Kecksburg UFO incident, which occurred Dec. 9, 1965, in the unincorporated hamlet about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
The cable network announced in June that it was backing the effort to research the Kecksburg incident in promoting a documentary, "Out of the Blue," which examined various UFO reports.
A November 2002 documentary on the suspected 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, was the highest-rated special in the network's 11-year history.
www.rense.com /general45/sues.htm   (617 words)

  
 Kecksburg UFO crash
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.
The military vehicles then left, carrying it's booty/ Then came the explanation: a fallen meteorite, the "nothing whatsoever" that didn't crash into the woods, and that apparently wasn't hauled away under wraps at high speed, either.
www.ufodigest.com /kecksburg.html   (771 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Unsolved Mysteries: UFOs: DVD: Robert Stack,Raymond Burr,Karl Malden,Keely Shaye Smith,Virginia Madsen,Don ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Even so, this DVD set also features plenty of UFO incidents which have yet to be explained, even after thorough research by "believers" and "skeptics", and I certainly wouldn't agree with a previous poster that all UFO cases are just a bunch of "tall stories".
UFO Healing- Lyonne Plasktt was diagnosed with T-cell Lyphoma and was given 3 months to live.
Kecksburg UFO- 1965, Kecksburg Pennsylvania; residents observed a fiery object streak through the sky and fall to earth.
www.amazon.com /Unsolved-Mysteries-UFOs-David-Massar/dp/B0002DRDWI   (2090 words)

  
 Roswell UFO Crash - Crystalinks
The December 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident involving many USAF personnel is sometimes called the "British Roswell" because of its importance, though no crash was involved.
The December 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident was another alleged military crash recovery of a UFO and is sometimes called the "Pennsylvania Roswell."
The Shag Harbor incident was the crash of an unknown object in Shag Habor, Nova Scotia, Canada, in October 1967, and involved attempts by the Canadian military to recover the object.
www.crystalinks.com /roswell.html   (4437 words)

  
 Shag Harbour incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shag Harbour Incident was the purported crash of an Unidentified Flying Object in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia in October 1967.
Atlantic Daylight Time, it was reported that something, (later referred to as a UFO) had crashed into the waters near Shag Harbour, on Nova Scotia's South Shore.
In the most recent History Channel documentary about the incident, which aired on August 10th, 2006, investigators reported that one of the divers involved in the Shag Harbour search did come forward during the mid-1990's, refusing to allow his identity to become known publicly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shag_Harbor_incident   (1758 words)

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