Posted on 10/28/2007 5:31:47 PM PDT by BGHater
WASHINGTON — NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court.
The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.
The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.
"They could not find anything," one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.
UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.
"This is about the public's right to know," Kean said. "We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It's a freedom of information issue."
The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with.
In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search.
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I never heard a thing about it until just now.
Here come a thousand un-funny posts containing UFO and alien pictures...
There is a show ‘UFO files’ or something like that, that gave has the story.
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GREAT! picture of Art!
It’s a keeper. Thanks!
They’ll lie about it to their graves. The facts are already well known. An alien in his acorn/bell shaped craft lost power or control somehow and crashed in the forest at a relatively slow speed. When it came out it was shot by some law enforcement person. The OSI was involved as well as the military. They then sent the body and craft to Wright Patterson AB, and we all know about what happens there from the Roswell incident.
Anyway, this and other similar incidents gave rise to the X Files as second hand accounts(hollywood filter)of true stories. I feel sorry for that alien, crash landing on a planet(any landing you can walk away from is a good one)and then being shot/killed out of fear by the locals. Doesn’t say much for the kind of peaceful and intelligent people that we THINK we are...and aliens refer to us as “apes with guns”....with good reason....
Either you have seen a UFO or you have not.
Once you have, well, you tend to believe in them...
The sad fact is, their probably covering up the fact that the officer fired his weapon, not about the Alien.
This and all other files retained in a secret mountain base known only to ... no one in charge.
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“The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.”
People, these incidents are classified defense research projects. They have been going on for eons. Area 51 and other places throughout the US...and yes the US runs live operations throughout the US when they get to the near operational status. Stealth aircraft were being run near the Appalachian mountains in roughly this same area in the early to mid 80s. How do they get away with that? The controllers don’t acquire them and “sightings” are mostly recognizing the sound of the aircraft. The next day people will report UFOs and the military has the story they want. Yeesh.
If there is anything to this, sounds like an entry vehicle like Soyuz to me. But hey, aliens is way more exciting, expecially when there is a conspiricy theory inolved. Whoohoo!
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