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.
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.
THE KECKSBURG, PA UFO CRASH INCIDENT by Stan Gordon
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Summary: 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.
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.
Born October 30, 1949 in
Pittsburgh, STAN
GORDON was trained as
and electronics technician
who has specialized in the
area of radio
communications. He has
worked for over twenty
five years in the
advanced consumer
electronics sales field.
Stan's interest in UFO's
and other unusual
happenings began at age
10. Since 1965, Stan has
been conducting on scene
investigations of
mysterious encounters in
Pennsylvania. He has
been involved with the
examination of
thousands of UFO and
other strange reports
from across the Keystone
State. During the late
1960's, Stan acted as a
telephone report sighting
coordinator for the UFO
Research Institute of
Pittsburgh. Stan has been
internationally recognized
as an authority on the
subject of the UFO and
Bigfoot phenomena.
He gained prominence
from his first hand
investigation into the well
remembered 1973
UFO/Bigfoot series of
sightings and encounters
which occurred in
Pennsylvania. He founded
the Westmoreland County
UFO Study Group in 1970,
which expanded to the
Pennsylvania Center For
UFO Research in 1975. In
1981 he founded the
Pennsylvania Association
For the Study Of The
Unexplained. PASU was
an all volunteer statewide
research unit which
ceased operation in
November of 1993.
Stan was also the
Pennsy1vania State
Director of the Mutual
UFO Network for many
years. MUFON is the
largest international UFO
research organization and
is based in Seguin,
Texas. Stan was the first
recipient (1978) of the
annual MUFON
"Meritorious Achievement
in A UFO Investigation
Award." Since November
of 1993, Stan remains
active in this field as an
independent researcher
and investigator, and as
time permits. Stan also
continues to investigate
information concerning
the controversial UFO
crash/retrieval case which
occurred on December 9,
1965 near Kecksburg in
Pennsylvania. Stan has
been the primary
investigator of the event
for many years.
Stan Gordon
P.O. Box 936
Greensburg, PA 15601
(724) 838-7768
Pittsburgh, STAN
GORDON was trained as
and electronics technician
who has specialized in the
area of radio
communications. He has
worked for over twenty
five years in the
advanced consumer
electronics sales field.
Stan's interest in UFO's
and other unusual
happenings began at age
10. Since 1965, Stan has
been conducting on scene
investigations of
mysterious encounters in
Pennsylvania. He has
been involved with the
examination of
thousands of UFO and
other strange reports
from across the Keystone
State. During the late
1960's, Stan acted as a
telephone report sighting
coordinator for the UFO
Research Institute of
Pittsburgh. Stan has been
internationally recognized
as an authority on the
subject of the UFO and
Bigfoot phenomena.
He gained prominence
from his first hand
investigation into the well
remembered 1973
UFO/Bigfoot series of
sightings and encounters
which occurred in
Pennsylvania. He founded
the Westmoreland County
UFO Study Group in 1970,
which expanded to the
Pennsylvania Center For
UFO Research in 1975. In
1981 he founded the
Pennsylvania Association
For the Study Of The
Unexplained. PASU was
an all volunteer statewide
research unit which
ceased operation in
November of 1993.
Stan was also the
Pennsy1vania State
Director of the Mutual
UFO Network for many
years. MUFON is the
largest international UFO
research organization and
is based in Seguin,
Texas. Stan was the first
recipient (1978) of the
annual MUFON
"Meritorious Achievement
in A UFO Investigation
Award." Since November
of 1993, Stan remains
active in this field as an
independent researcher
and investigator, and as
time permits. Stan also
continues to investigate
information concerning
the controversial UFO
crash/retrieval case which
occurred on December 9,
1965 near Kecksburg in
Pennsylvania. Stan has
been the primary
investigator of the event
for many years.
Stan Gordon
P.O. Box 936
Greensburg, PA 15601
(724) 838-7768
See Also:
THE CONCLUSION OF THE NASA LAWSUIT CONCERNING THE KECKSBURG, PA UFO CASE OF 1965 by Leslie Kean
A STRANGE STORY-REMARKABLE DISCOVERY (Missouri Democrat, dated October 19, 1865)
THE CONCLUSION OF THE NASA LAWSUIT CONCERNING THE KECKSBURG, PA UFO CASE OF 1965 by Leslie Kean
A STRANGE STORY-REMARKABLE DISCOVERY (Missouri Democrat, dated October 19, 1865)