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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Presumably, since it was listed originally as a meteor/ite then it would be a NASA issue as well and they would have docs on it.
Military was launching recon satellites then, and recovering photo modules. They usually snagged the parachute on the way down.
Whoever launched it wanted it back. That was about right for an Atlas-Agena photo recon module.
Good point. I think I’ll jump over and google a picture of it since I am not familiar with it.
Aviation Week used to cover these. Classified in detail, but every launch was kind of public.
It might have been an alien (Russian) spacecraft.
If that’s the case then they should tell us what it was, since Clintoon has already sold it to the Chinese.
You know, maybe there’s something to that-—hell, if I don’t know that I don’t even know...
ROFL! That was the first pic I thought of when I saw you rpost and made myslef laugh. i think of MIB daily as I have a pug that reminds me of Frank.
NO!
As surfing a gravity wave.
Can reportedly be tricky . . . especially in the smaller craft.
No, the witnesses say it weaved an bobbed before finally coming down in the forest, not a parachute, more like faulty flight controls in this bell-shaped craft. Think of a helicopter having similar flight control problems before crashing in a hard landing. Then as a crowd gathered they heard a single shot as the alien was murdered by someone with a badge, think X-FILES and the policy of killing aliens w/o mercy.
Thus murder was committed that day on a hapless alien who lost flight control over his space craft, that’s why nasa wants to cover it up, we call that kind of people co-conspirators....and we put them in prison...
That's OK. One day the kook patrol will be the jokes themselves. It won't be funny then, however.
:>) SOT
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