UFO Mysteries Still Going Unanswered
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The famous UFO stories in Nevada's Area 51 have gotten all the immediate attention and talk of Earth being visited by aliens from other planets.
UFO stories are still counting, and are going unexplained. Roswell, N.M. and the notorious "Area 51" in Nevada have gotten all of the ink when it comes to talk of Earth being visited by beings from another planet.
But Pennsylvania has its own UFO legend, centered around a mysterious incident in the village of Kecksburg, Westmoreland County. Use Google to search "Kecksburg PA" and you’ll get pages and pages of references to the story that celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday.
According to news accounts, witnesses described a "fireball" in the sky and a "metallic, acorn-shaped object about 12 to 15 feet high and 8 to 12 feet in diameter that landed gently in the woods."People at the scene on that December night in 1965 didn’t need much prompting to be curious.
A detachment from the U.S. military didn’t often show up at a woods fire in rural Kecksburg, or rural anywhere for that matter.Soldiers cordoned off the site and not only refused to answer questions but, according to witnesses, threatened those who were persistent in seeking an answer. Sometime later, the military declared the object to be a meteor.
Today, spokesmen for NASA describe the fallen object as a failed Russian satellite that fell back into the atmosphere and began burning up before it landed.But neither of these explanations satisfy those who claim the object made a soft landing, much like the Apollo capsules that landed on the moon.
Dec 10, 2005
GameSHOUT
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The famous UFO stories in Nevada's Area 51 have gotten all the immediate attention and talk of Earth being visited by aliens from other planets.
UFO stories are still counting, and are going unexplained. Roswell, N.M. and the notorious "Area 51" in Nevada have gotten all of the ink when it comes to talk of Earth being visited by beings from another planet.
But Pennsylvania has its own UFO legend, centered around a mysterious incident in the village of Kecksburg, Westmoreland County. Use Google to search "Kecksburg PA" and you’ll get pages and pages of references to the story that celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday.
According to news accounts, witnesses described a "fireball" in the sky and a "metallic, acorn-shaped object about 12 to 15 feet high and 8 to 12 feet in diameter that landed gently in the woods."People at the scene on that December night in 1965 didn’t need much prompting to be curious.
A detachment from the U.S. military didn’t often show up at a woods fire in rural Kecksburg, or rural anywhere for that matter.Soldiers cordoned off the site and not only refused to answer questions but, according to witnesses, threatened those who were persistent in seeking an answer. Sometime later, the military declared the object to be a meteor.
Today, spokesmen for NASA describe the fallen object as a failed Russian satellite that fell back into the atmosphere and began burning up before it landed.But neither of these explanations satisfy those who claim the object made a soft landing, much like the Apollo capsules that landed on the moon.
Dec 10, 2005
