NASA Releases Files on Kecksburg UFO Incident
The December, 1965 Kecksburg incident is in the news again, as investigator Leslie Kean has just received 689 pages of files on the event from NASA as the result of a lawsuit concluded in October of last year.
Kean has yet to cull though the massive paper trail, but according to an article posted on June 16th at LiveScience:
NASA searched 297 boxes of files, Kean said via email. A sampling of a few of the more interesting files from these boxes, which she requested — and which could shed light on one or more of the many facets of the Kecksburg event — gives a flavor of what the files contain.
The data haul includes files on Navy and NASA Recovery Operations - Trajectory and Orbits Panel; Russian Vehicle and Launch - 1962-1965; Department of Defense (DOD)-NASA relationships; Recovery Sites - NASA/DOD FY 65 Facilities; and a series of files on orbital debris and fragments.
Personally, I am not convinced that the Kecksburg incident involved some kind of extraterrestrial vehicle. So far, the best evidence is that it was a Russian satellite or, as Joseph Farrell writes in SS Brotherhood of the Bell, it may have been a captured secret weapon that employed anti-gravity technology. Original Kecksburg investigator Stan Gordon may disagree with this opinion, though!
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Jun 20 2008 
June 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
It will be interesting to see what turns up. I remember reading a James
Oberg article on the case that demonstrated ( Fairly convincingly )
that it could not have been the Russian
space probe thats often cited as the
culprit. ( I think the article is at
Encyclopedia Astronautica )
I’ll probably read the “Bell” book
at some point, but I have yet to see
anything that even begins to convince
me the Germans were that far ahead of
the curve technologicaly…
June 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
While I don’t have any good idea what fell at Kecksburg, these might be good circumstances to remember facts often overlooked about classification and FOIA.
Basically, there are four major possibilities if there’s anything here the government really doesn’t want us to know:
1. It’s still classified.
2. It was shredded years ago.
3. It was never written down in the first place.
4. Disinformation (i.e., lying) is as time-honored a security technique as the above, so that any or all of what’s released could be false.
Of course, it’s all “conspiracy theory” to believe your loving government does any of the above things. And of course it’s wrong to buy into conspiracy theories, and if you do you’ll be justly ridiculed.
And of course, it really is entirely possible the release will be complete, truthful, and reveal the facts to be mind-crushingly mundane.
But that’s the beauty of disinformation, isn’t it? We literally do never know.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Victor, I agree with your appreciation of the situation.
Would numbr 2 include instances like the loss of official logs from Roswell AFB in 1947, coincidentally covering the esxact time period that the crash at Brazell’s ranch occurred? Perhaps the lack of info is almost as telling as the files themselves.
We just have to accept that we are treated like children, and the Government is our somewhat deceitful parents, who try and get us to behave by telling us fairy tales of Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
I’d expect to see all three come riding up to my front door on flying unicorns, before I’d expect to see any actual files that explain what really happened at Kecksburg.
BTW: Dr. Farrell’s theory of a crashed top-secret project, begun by the Germans and finished by the US, is certainly interesting. There are multiple incidents in UFO records of apparent attempts by elements of the US armed for4ces (AF, Navy, etc.) to fly someone else’s technology.
No reason to doubt that might have been behind the quick response and retrieval of the Kecksburg object. But then again, no reason that the US government would ever ‘fess up, if that were the case.
I’m certain NASA overlooked a few boxes in their “exhaustive” search.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Number two could certainly include such incidents, although “accidental”/”catastrophic” data loss could almost be a category of its own.
Of course, accidents happen. And sometimes there are no records of events because in fact they didn’t happen. We often can’t know. Uncertainty is often the best camouflage.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Well besides looking like a Jellystone Park exhibit — has anyone read Joseph Farrell’s NEW book?
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
What I mean is it “fully rationalized”? (to use a favorite concept of Farrell’s)