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Source:
Stan Gordon
Original
Source
"The Kecksburg, PA UFO Crash
Incident"
Stan Gordon
It was December
9,1965, that an event occurred about 40 miles from
Pittsburgh in a rural area of western Pennsylvania, that
even now remains controversial for some, and mysterious
to others. At the time many people saw a brilliant
object moving across the sky. The news media focused on
a young boy, who while playing outside, said he saw an
object fall from the sky into some nearby woods. The
media pursued his story since there were numerous
accounts from others, that an aerial object was seen
over a large area including many reports from the
greater Pittsburgh area. Besides the police authorities,
various newspapers, and radio and tv stations around
Pittsburgh, had their phone lines jammed with calls
about the object in the sky. Coincidentally, author
Frank Edwards, who had written some popular books on
UFO's, was a guest on a KDKA radio talk show in
Pittsburgh that evening, hosted by the late Mike Levine.
During my years of investigation into the
matter, other witnesses who saw the object go down into
the woods that day have been located. It has been stated
that moments after the object fell, blue smoke rose up
among the trees, but dissipated quickly. Many people say
that the military, including members of the Army and Air
Force, began to arrive in the area around the village of
Keeksburg within a few hours after the reported landing.
During the evening, reporters from numerous media
sources went to Kecksburg to investigate the event. The
area around the alleged impact site was cordoned off,
and a search for the object was conducted in the woods.
Neither civilians nor reporters were able to get near
the spot where the object had reportedly fallen.
Hundreds of spectators looked on from a narrow country
road which circled around the area, unaware that the
object appears to have fallen on the opposite side of
the woods.
As time passed that evening, many
people left disappointed that they couldn't see the
object. A few curious folks tried to sneak down into the
woods, and later told me that they were tuned back by
the military. Late that night, others say they observed
a military flatbed tractor-trailer truck, carrying a
large tarpaulin covered object, leaving the area at a
high rate of speed. Reporters are among the many
witnesses who verify that they saw military personnel in
the Kecksburg area that night. The front page of the
Greensburg, PA Tribune-Review county edition dated
December 10, 1965, ran the headlines "Unidentified
Flying Object Falls Near Kecksburg" and "Army Ropes Off
Area." The city edition of the same paper however, on
the same day ran the headline "Searchers Fail To Find
Object." Officially, no object was found in the woods by
searchers. It was suggested that the most likely
explanation was that the brilliant object in the sky was
a meteor. But word that something was removed from the
site by the military that night, quickly circulated
around the county. The Kecksburg incident remained a
topic for area radio talk shows for years as it does
today. As the years passed, I would receive various
accounts from sources who claimed knowledge of the
event. Many of those involved with the incident even
today, wish to remain anonymous. Others have gone public
and stand by their accounts. Some have faced personal
attacks and ridicule. Many important witnesses have
passed away.
What we now know is that there are
individuals who say that they went down into the woods
that December day in 1965, before the military arrived,
and came across upon a large metallic acorn shaped
object partially buried in the ground. The device was
large enough for a man to stand inside of it. The object
was a bronze-gold color, and appeared to be one solid
piece of metal, displaying no rivets or seams. At the
back of the acorn shape was what witness Jim Romansky
calls the bumper area.
Upon this area were
unusual markings that Romansky says looked similar to
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Romansky who has been a
machinist for many years, says the object itself, looked
as though it had been made from liquid metal and poured
into a big mold. Since the object was impacted in the
ground, the bottom portion was not visible, but what
could be seen appeared well intact. The late John
Murphy, was the new director of WHJB radio in Greensburg
at the time, and is believed to have been the first
reporter on the scene. His former wife says that she was
in radio contact with him from the site that day, and
that he told her that he went down into the woods and
saw the object. Various informants have approached me
with information. Some of these were people who had
military or government affiliation and wish not to be
identified at this time. Some information is expected to
be revealed in the future, when these sources feel that
they are safe to disclose what they know.
I have
also received anonymous tips that pointed me in the
right direction which helped to uncover other details.
Before Unsolved Mysteries broadcast their story about
Kecksburg in 1990, 1 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 remembers
extreme security measures at the time, and says that the
object was only a the base for a short time, and then
continued on to Wright-Patterson Air Force base near
Dayton, Ohio.
We later learned that the object
was allegedly sealed up inside a building at that base.
After years of searching for government documents
relating to this event, the only official record located
was in the Air Force Project Blue Book files. Included
in the report it was stated "A further call was made to
the Oakdale Radar site in Pennsylvania. A three man team
has been dispatched to Acme [Some residents not far from
the site have an Acme mailing address] to investigate
and pick up an object that started a fire." While the
report shows a lot of interest from various agencies
concerning the aerial object, the report also indicates
that the search found nothing. I have learned a lot
about the Kecksburg case over the years, yet there
remain many unanswered questions. I surely don't have
all of the answers.
Based on the accounts of
multitudes of eyewitnesses which I have interviewed, I
am convinced that an object did fall from the sky and
apparently was removed by the military. Other witnesses
say they saw NASA personnel at the scene that night also
involved in the search. Many have asked me what I
believe that the object was, and my reply still is "I
don't know." As I have stated in the past, the two most
likely possibilities are (1) a highly advanced man-made
space probe with some reentry control capability (2) an
extraterrestrial spacecraft. It has been confirmed that
a faulty Soviet Venus probe identified as Kosmos 96,
reentered in Canada on the same date, but at about 3:18
A.M. The sightings around Kecksburg occurred at about
4:47 P.M. many hours later. The Russian's have told me
that Kosmos 96 was not the source of what fell that day.
Other researchers have provided me with
interesting but unverifiable information, that they have
talked with former NASA sources who claimed to have
examined the object which fell in PA, and determined it
to be Soviet in origin. I have also talked with two
former military men who are unknown to each other, that
told me that during different years, and at different
installations, they saw the recovery report on the
Kecksburg object, and both said the report indicated
that the object was extraterrestrial. From what the
observers tell us, the object whatever it was, appeared
to be slowing down a few miles before it impacted.
During it's flight, it appears to have made some turns,
and those who saw the object drop from the sky, say it
was moving quite slowly as it moved towards the woods.
This might account for the good condition of the object
itself, and the little damage at the impact site, except
for trees which were reportedly knocked down. One
question we must ask is what was it that fell which was
so important that it caused the military to act the way
they did at the scene? Various witnesses have now gone
public confirming that armed solders were around the
village, and were preventing anyone from trespassing
near the crash site. Jerry Betters, a popular jazz
musician from Pittsburgh, has gone public and told his
story that soldiers aimed rifles at him and his friends,
ordering them from a back road, as an Army flat bed
tractor-trailer with an acorn-shaped object on board,
was making it's way up from a field. More recently, a
prominent businessman contacted me and told me how he
and his friends, then teenagers in 1965, tried to get
near the site and were stopped my military personnel. He
was frightened at the time of the experience, he thought
the soldier was going to shoot him. Would armed soldiers
respond to the scene of a meteorite crash? Who issued
the orders for such an operation to take place?
Some of you are aware that earlier this year, I
released a 92 minute video documentary on the incident
called "Kecksburg The Untold Story" which I produced at
my own expense. Many key witnesses are getting up in
years, and some are not in good health. This was an
opportunity for those involved to tell their own
experiences about what occurred. For the first time some
new and startling information is revealed about what
allegedly occurred. Some of these people reveal details
which strongly suggests a coverup. Also included in the
video, are audio excerpts from the original 1965 WHJB
radio broadcast "Object In The Woods." One man details
his claim of seeing a partially covered body inside a
building at Wright-Patterson, at the same time the
Kecksburg object was being examined.
This case
is much to involved to cover here in detail. One good
source of information on the case can be found in Kevin
Randle's book "A History of UFO Crashes." The Kecksburg
mystery remains. Was the object a man made space device
or did we receive a visitor from outside of our world?
Recently while visiting an area business, a worker
recognized me and asked about the Kecksburg case. 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. When this
person asked his relative about what had happened, he
refused to give any details, but his words were
remembered "There was more to it then you'll ever know."
I have no doubt that there are other individuals who
have important information on this case. It's time that
the truth is revealed, regardless of what the source of
the object was. It's been 33 years, it's time to break
the silence.
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