Friday June 20

June 20th, 2008 Posted in June 2008

S ince 2003, journalist Leslie Kean, backed by the Sci Fi channel, NASA continued in court to obtain information on the incident Kecksburg (Pennsylvania, December 1965). The space agency had provided several stacks of documents, but the investigator found that it did not meet his request. "In March 2007, Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected the request from NASA to evacuate the case, and following negotiations the agency has finally promised in October 2007 that it would do further research." Text the summons. Background: A subject had crossed the sky and then crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, 40 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Traffic was blocked in the vicinity while the odd numbers were heading towards the area, and soldiers were deployed to prevent them from approaching. The Air Force did not deny the UFO phenomenon, but had initially explained that it was one or more meteorites. (*)

After hours of nighttime searches on the site, on 9 December 1965, the Air Force had published this comment: "They found nothing." But several NASA employees were seen on the scene: "Witnesses had reported seeing a truck with a load platform away from the area, carrying an object shaped gland, size a Volkswagen bus. "Rendering conducted according to the descriptions of witnesses, is set in the office of volunteer firefighters Kecksburg.

David Leonard contacted Leslie Kean, and has just published an update on his blog.

"The investigator finally get satisfaction: it now has a quantity of records that might help clarify the matter." Leslie Kean chose to assign NASA to justice rather than the Army, "because that the space agency had already ten years ago, published some interesting documents on the case. Leslie told me that since the favorable ruling handed down in October 2007, NASA had obtained several postponements because of the wealth of archives to sort. She finally received these documents last weekend, representing a total of 689 pages. " The lists show that NASA has an inventory of the contents of 297 boxes of documents. An overview of the first records that Leslie Kean received gives an idea of the areas covered by this issue:

"There are data recovery operations conducted by the Navy and NASA - Studies trajectory and orbit; information on the capsules and their Russian launches between 1962 and 1965; documents concerning relations between the Ministry of Defense (DoD) and NASA, other sites related to recovery in joint operations conducted by NASA and the DoD, and a quantity of information on orbital debris. "

Leslie Kean added: "Even if things do not Kecksburg, we will learn more about the space program from NASA, especially on the recovery of unidentified objects which the agency has participated during this period."

(*) NASA had adopted the theory of Russian satellites in 2005. "In December 2005, just before the 40th anniversary of the crash, NASA issued a statement saying it had examined metal fragments of the object: it was a Russian satellite (Cosmos 96) who broke back in the atmosphere. The NASA experts studied fragments of the object, but documents related to this analysis were lost in the 90s. "
"This new explanation contradicted the version of meteorites provided by the Air Force in 1965, and the announcement that the research had been unsuccessful. It also contradicted what Nicholas L. Johnson - head of NASA scientist for orbital debris - told Leslie Kean in 2003, that Cosmos 96 could in no way be the cause of the incident in Kecksburg. He confirmed that no subject had made re-entry that day. "

Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, found the first witness to the crash: "Larry was 15 years old, he hunted in the woods with his brother and a friend. He remembers that the subject had described several turns falling. He saw distinctly inscriptions that he could not decipher on a metal band around the object. When the army took position on the location of the crash, armed guards prevented the curious from approaching. Thereafter, during his military service on the basis of Hamilton Air Force, California, he met with pilots who had been mobilized to intercept the UFO of Kecksburg. "