Kecksburg UFO Incident Case File

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Kecksburg UFO Incident
Case File
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Residents of Kecksburg reported a crash sight of a bright object moving at cosmic speed. Witnesses say they saw military personnel around the crash sight shortly after the incident, but no explanation of what the thing was was given.

Prepare to be captivated by an astonishing exploration into the enigmatic and little-known Kecksburg Incident, an extraordinary UFO crash that sent shock waves through the world in the 1960s.

Bill Bulebosh:


Bill Weaver:
“The military’s idea of finding completely nothing is completely false. There was something down in that ravine that night. There was something that glowed an awful bright light. And they took something out of there that night.”

Dennis Skillings:


Die Glocke:
Die Glocke (German: The Bell). According to Cook, Die Glocke was bell-shaped, about 4 metres (12 ft) high and 3 metres (9 ft) in diameter, and incorporated "two high-speed, counter-rotating cylinders filled with a purplish, liquid metallic-looking substance that was supposed to be highly radioactive, code-named 'Xerum 525.

German Submarine U-864:
German submarine U-864 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II. On 9 February 1945, she became the only submarine in history to be sunk by an enemy submarine while both were submerged. U-864 was sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer, and all 73 men on board died. U-864 carried 64 long tons of mercury in 1,857 canisters as part of its secondary cargo on a secret mission to Japan in 1944. The mercury was intended for use in weapons production.

James Romansky (Fireman):
“Official reports that the military and the government put out, as far as I’m concerned, are a bunch of bull. If this thing was a meteorite, then why didn’t they just bring it out and say, ‘Here it is,’ let the reporters take pictures of it, let the firemen see it, let the people in this area see it… why the big mystery?”

Jim Mayes:
“My personal opinion, what landed in Kecksburg that night was a capsule of some kind, from where, whether it was one of ours, or foreign, I have no idea.”

Jim Mayes (Fireman):


Jim Romansky (Fireman):


John Murphy:
John Murphy is a key figure in the Kecksburg UFO Incident, which occurred on December 9, 1965, in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Murphy was a local radio reporter for WHJB who claimed to have arrived at the scene of the alleged UFO crash and took photos of the object. Four years after the incident, Murphy was killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident while vacationing in California.

Kecksburg 1965 — Connections to Wright-Patterson AFB and Majestic-12:


Kecksburg 1965 — Frances Kalp and the First Witness Reports:


Kecksburg 1965 — Jim Romansky: Primary Eyewitness Testimony:


Kecksburg 1965 — John Murphy, WHJB Radio, and the Suppressed Documentary:


Kecksburg 1965 — Lockbourne AFB and Wright-Patterson Transfer:


Kecksburg 1965 — Physical Evidence and Site Analysis:


Kecksburg 1965 — Project Blue Book and the Official Investigation:


Kecksburg 1965 — Proposed Explanations: Comparative Analysis:


Kecksburg 1965 — Stan Gordon and the WCUFOSG Investigation:


Kecksburg 1965 — The FOIA Litigation Against NASA (2003–2007):


Kecksburg 1965 — The Fireball: Multi-State Sighting:


Kecksburg 1965 — The Military Response and Perimeter:


Kecksburg 1965 — The Object in the Woods: Physical Description:


Kecksburg 1965 — The Recovery Operation and Flatbed Truck:


Kecksburg 1965 — The Tribune-Review Headline Contradiction:


Kecksburg UFO Crash 1965 — Master Case File:


Kecksburg UFO Incident:
Residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported a crash sight of a bright object moving at cosmic speed. Witnesses say they saw military personnel around the crash sight shortly after the incident, but no explanation of what the thing was was given.

Nevin Kalp:


ParaNet BBS/aavfaq2:
alt.alien.visitors Frequently Asked Questions (Part 2). This FAQ was last updated: 10/26/92

ParaNet BBS/keckburg:
Never mind that scientist Ivan T. Sanderson traced the flight pattern of the UFO and discovered it made a controlled 25-degree turn in Ohio and headed for Pennsylvania (Fate Magazine, arch 1966). Not a typical movement of a satellite crashing back to Earth.

ParaNet BBS/keckburg2:
Never mind that scientist Ivan T. Sanderson traced the flight pattern of the UFO and discovered it made a controlled 25-degree turn in Ohio and headed for Pennsylvania (Fate Magazine, arch 1966). Not a typical movement of a satellite crashing back to Earth.

ParaNet BBS/kecksbrg3:
The following is from T. Scott Crain, Jr., State Section Director for MUFON in Pennsylvania; and Stan Gordon, State Director of MUFON in Pennsylvania and Director of the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained (PASU).

Robb Landy:
We were riding up the road and we just happened to look up into the sky and we saw this thing coming over the tops of the trees. It just glided right across the sky, like across the horizon of the trees. We were just, like, in awe, you know, as we watched it. Then it disappeared, and we ran.

Robert Bitner (Fireman):


The 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Crash:
What exactly soared through the late afternoon skies of Canada, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania on December 5, 1965? Eyewitnesses described the unknown object as a "fireball", but it seemed to be under some type of intelligent control, as it veered somewhat in Ohio toward the Quaker State.

The Groom Lake Desert Rat Main Page/The Groom Lake Desert Rat - Issue 15:
Issue #15. September 2, 1994 An on-line newsletter. Written, published, copyrighted and totally disavowed by Psychospy. Direct from the "UFO Capital," Rachel, Nevada.

UFO BBS/014:
Part 1 of 2 - This final article in a six-part series on unidentified flying objects (UFOS) examines one of the most talked about and controversial incidents in the area, what has been termed a meteorite by some and an alien craft by others, which crashed in Kecksburg December 9, 1965.

UFO BBS/015:
Part 2 of 2 - "They drove us out. It was late at night when we finally got back to the fire hall and it had been completely taken over by the military. They were carrying in large pieces of equipment, radios and such, and they had armed guards posted outside so nobody could get in or out. The firemen were thrown out. We weren't even allowed in to use the bathroom.

UFO BBS/1162:
A Derry man who maintains he saw an unidentified flying object after it allegedly landed in Kecksburg 25 years ago said he is fed up with those who scoff at his account.

UFO BBS/127:
This final article in a six-part series on unidentified flying objects (UFOS) examines one of the most talked about and controversial incidents in the area, what has been termed a meteorite by some and an alien craft by others, which crashed in Kecksburg December 9, 1965.

UFO BBS/1290:
This final article in a six-part series on unidentified flying objects (UFOS) examines one of the most talked about and controversial incidents in the area, what has been termed a meteorite by some and an alien craft by others, which crashed in Kecksburg December 9, 1965.

UFO BBS/1291:
MYSTERY OF METEOR ROAD STILL UNSOLVED - There's no telling who'll show up in Kecksburg August 13 when the Community Day Parade trumpets the 50th anniversary of the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.

UFO BBS/1429:
On September 19, 1990, the NBC television network's season opener of "Unsolved Mysteries" featured a half hour segment on the heretofore little-known "Kecksburg UFO Crash." It was alleged that this involved the crash and recovery by the U. S. military of an unidentified flying object with strange alien markings in the small western Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg, near Pittsburgh, on December 9, 1965.

UFO Crash Kecksburg: The Untold Story (Documentary):
On December 9th 1965 near the village of kbur in West County Pennsylvania Witnesses describe an unusual object which fell from the sky into a wooded area according to many accounts' Within hours after the object had fallen, military equipment of personnel began to descend on its normally quiet rural community.