People in Kecksburg want to resolve what fell from the sky in 1965

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, March 09, 2003 | Tom Gibb

[Willie Green]

KECKSBURG, Pa. -- Dec. 9, 1965. A day that will live in incongruity.

That was the late afternoon when something -- or nothing -- shot from the heavens over this south edge of Westmoreland County and landed -- or didn't -- in a gully a mile outside of town.

[Paraclete]

I never want to run into the squirrel that dropped that nut!

[EggsAckley]

Reminds me of a book; "The Man Who Ate the 747"

[aristotleman]

The wreckage bore markings Romansky likens to hieroglyphics. Nobody touched it.

People who figure that something indeed hit the ground suggested origins ranging from extraterrestrials to a misfired NIKE missile to a remnant of Kosmos 96, a Soviet probe that was bound for Venus but, according to U.S. Space Command, crashed in Canada 14 hours earlier.

Come to think of it, Russian does look like hieroglyphics to the untrained eye.

[Jaxter]

[Renegade]

This is weird !!!! I was a senior in high school when this happened . I had an early morning paper route in the Wilkes Barre, Pa area . I remember that morning because something passed overhead ( it was still dark ) and looked like it was in flames. It even made noise . There was nothing written about it in the papers in the following days. I was and still am an avid follower of the space program and have always wondered if it was a meteorite that landed somewhere. The direction it was travelling was SW to NE ( as far as I can remember) . This is on the other side of the state from Pittsburgh, so I would like to know if it was related . Burned in my memory .

[Willie Green]

Well, if it passed over you in Wilkes Barre, it would have to have been going in the opposite direction to land in Kecksburg.

[aruanan]

People in Kecksburg want to resolve what fell from the sky in 1965

Why? Is it out of focus?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Surely there is still a stump left from the 2500 foot oak tree this fell from.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Surely there is still a stump left from the 2500 foot oak tree this fell from.

[BlueLancer]

War of the Worlds

[headsonpikes]

An appropriate Tariff policy would prevent these uninvited alien manufactures.
;^)

[Ku Commando]

Truck it down the road to Hershey, PA & let them display it out in front of the CHOCOLATE FACTORY !!!!

[L,TOWM]

Midget Martians? That's OK, we kicked the crap outta bunch of little dudes in the Pacific 60 years ago, these little twerps should be no problem...

[aculeus]

It's all about oil.

[Cagey]

Kecksburg, the untold story

[Renegade]

I am implying that it was headed my way and there was more of it that didn't land in the Kecksburg area .. Only the Men In Black ( trenchcoats) know for sure . Could have happened hours later or earlier if there was something in orbit at that longitude .

[RichInOC]

It looks like a very large petrified poo.

[TroutStalker]

Spooky. It gives me the willies.