UFO Case: The Kecksburg Incident

UFO Case: The Kecksburg Incident

The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on Decenber 9, 1965. Thousands of people from six US states as well as the Ontario region, Canada witnessed a large and bright fireball in the skies, leaving a trail of hot metal, starting fires and causing sonic booms. The official statement was that the object had been a meteoroid that exploded in the atmosphere. Witness testimonies tell a different story. In fact, due to the similarities between the Kecksburg Incident and the 1947 Roswell crash, the former has been often referred to as “Pennsylvania’s Roswell”.

Evidence against the meteor theory comes from the statements of given by the residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, a small village 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. They claim that an unknown object crashed into the nearby woods. Many witness testimonies support this scenario. A mother and her son saw an object shaped like an acorn land in the forest and alerted the authorities when they saw blue smoke over the trees. Other locals felt a muffled thump followed by a low vibration. Another testimony was given by the local volunteer fire department members, who reported seeing a car-sized, acorn-shaped object in the woods.

They say strange symbols resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics were arranged in a circular band around its base.

The military made a quick appearance, sealing off the area and restricting civilian access. The object was then loaded on a flatbed truck, covered and then shuttled away. The official Army report states that nothing was found, despite numerous witnesses claiming they had seen something being transported on the truck.

The next day, the Tribune-Review ran an article called ‘Unidentified Flying Object Falls near Kecksburg — Army Ropes off Area’. The article read:

The area where the object landed was immediately sealed off on the order of US Army and State Police officials, reportedly in anticipation of a ‘close inspection’of whatever may have fallen. State Police officials there ordered the area roped off to await the expected arrival of both US Army engineers and possibly, civilian scientists.”

The authorities issued an official statement, saying that the disturbance had been caused by a meteor but many believe this is just another cover-up. Their explanations range from space debris to Soviet probes to alien crafts. At the time, there was speculation that the object might have been debris from Kosmos 96, a Soviet probe intended for the exploration of Venus that had malfunctioned and never got to leave Earth’s orbit. However, in 2003, NASA stated that was not the case, only to change its statement in 2005, declaring the Kecksburg Incident had indeed been caused by Kosmos 96.

Stan Gordon, the main investigator of this incident for several decades stated: “I have no doubt the government knows a lot more about this than it has revealed to the public”.

In the end, NASA reported the case files had been destroyed or misplaced and in 2009 a case was filed against them by Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist and co-founder of the Coalition for Freedom of Information. The case was closed when NASA was unable to retrieve the case files.

The incident remains unexplained to this day and there have been several attempts to reveal the identity of the object that crashed in the woods near Kecksburg. Among them is a particularly interesting theory stating the craft was in fact Die Glocke, commonly referred to as the Nazi Bell, a technological device developed during World War 2 based on alien technology. Supposedly, the craft was able to travel through time and had been used by Nazi SS officer Hans Kammler to escape the Allied Forces in the final days of the war.

As in almost all other UFO cases, only speculation exists and it is highly unlikely that we will ever know the truth.

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