NASA to Search Files on '65 UFO Incident

Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:24 PM EDT

WASHINGTON — NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.

The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.

"They could not find anything," one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.

Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.

UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.

"This is about the public's right to know," Kean said. "We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It's a freeodm of information issue."

The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with.

In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search.

Kean said Friday that she sued NASA rather than the Army because the space agency a decade ago released some relevant documents on the case.

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Collin

This would be a good time for the world to find out that there have been aliens here on Earth. I have always been the guy who says, "sure there are aliens, but they are too far to ever get here and we won't have imaging capable of seeing that far for a very long time (if ever) to discover even primitive life outside our solar system". Well I still feel that way, but as a buddy pointed out, just about everything ever written in science fiction has come true. That doesn't mean all will, else we will have to drop the 'fiction' someday. But with all the theoretical propulsion systems out there it seems conceivable that there would be some ungodly faster than light space craft out there and with that much advance in propulsion they would certainly have better ways or detecting earth so the chances increase that this planet would be visited. But then when? in a hundred years? million years? maybe our world was seeded by aliens?

Who the hell knows? I just know it's fun to think about. The odds of this thing being anything more than some government operation gone bad. Like an experiment to roast marshmallows using the sunlight outside of out atmosphere. Do you think NASA wants to admit to millions of dollars being spent on marshmellows? SEE.. I THINK NOT!

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#1 - Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:55 PM EDT

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Synthesis

This would be a good time for the world to find out that there have been aliens here on Earth. I have always been the guy who says, "sure there are aliens, but they are too far to ever get here and we won't have imaging capable of seeing that far for a very long time (if ever) to discover even primitive life outside our solar system".

There's also the minority view that says there are aliens here, but they're not recent arrivals; and they've been here for millenia...all the UFOs that are sighted are actually their terrestrial craft, and when not in use are housed, undetected, in undersea and underground bases. That view nicely solves your distance problem...

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#1.1 - Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:34 PM EDT

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Collin

Uhm. yeah yeah. for sure. oh uhm.. yeah.. hey I gotta go.. uh.. do laundry.

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#1.2 - Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:09 PM EDT

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lisaxian

whatever it is put it in the Public Domain...we can't be that scary

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#2 - Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:33 PM EDT

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