Today, the history of the Kexburg catastrophe is well known. Meanwhile, interest in this mysterious, which happened almost half a century ago, the story was awakened by American ufologist Stan Gordon. Having processed and studied a lot of information, he came to the following versions of those distant events.
Military responsiveness
The evening of December 9, 1965 in the depths of the forest, in a semicircle spanning the town of Kexburg in Pennsylvania rang out high-pitched whistle that turned into a thunderous roar and ended thump. The walls of the houses shook from him and swayed chandeliers.
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Soon, a crowd of alarmed gathered in front of the town hall residents. The mayor and the sheriff persuaded people to disperse, explaining that in more often than not, a rocket fell in the Kexburg forest, and should arrive soon military experts with the necessary equipment.
And indeed, within half an hour two helicopters arrived with paratroopers who quickly cordoned off the edge of the forest from the city and the adjacent federal highway. Then came a few trailers and tractors with buses. So began the evacuation operation mysterious object.
Both Gordon and other researchers drew attention to the amazing speed with which the territory was isolated, adjacent to the crash site of an unknown object. However none of they did not draw any conclusions from this strange fact.
Witnesses from the Meteor Road
Stan Gordon began his Kexbourg ge case investigation with traditional search for the most reliable eyewitness accounts and here I came across a disagreement of the testimony.
For some reason, most residents of Keksburg did not see anything and did not heard about the landing of an “air acorn” in a crooked ravine (so called the place of the UFO crash) learned the next day from the media.
Newspaper reporting and eyewitness drawings
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And when reporters of major publications and metropolitan journalists, they were able to get evidence on any taste. The range of opinions was very wide – from allegations that from heaven so nothing fell, to the descriptions of the removal of “green men” from revealed “heavenly acorn.”
By the way, the term “celestial acorn” itself, apparently, arose somehow by accident, because no one had ever seen what landed in Crooked ravine. In the materials of the Blue Book project (one of a series Air Force UFO reporting research projects USA in the middle of the 20th century) we only meet the terms “apparatus”, “aggregate” and “test object”.
The only thing most people in Kexburg met was that there was some kind of disaster. Therefore, as soon as radio news announced that a UFO had landed on the outskirts of Keksburg, section of the federal highway, which locals called “meteor road” (due to cars rushing like meteorites), right there filled by the curious. These were the main witnesses of Keksburgsky incident that saw only a string of military trucks, something exported from the forest.
Blue Book Findings
Gordon believes the interim command post operation was located in a fire station with a hookah, on which there was special communication equipment was installed. His scheme is supplemented testimony of local farmer Hay, whose plot was located between the edge of the forest and the federal highway. Military equipped in farmhouse radiotelephone and receiving instructions from fire towers, organized combing of the surrounding fields and the outskirts of the forest with instruments reminiscent of army mine detectors.
Modern UFO Monument – Acorns
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All roads leading to Hay’s farm and to Kexburg were blocked military police throughout the search operation however several correspondents saw binoculars “work on the ground sappers with mine detectors. “This is strange, because the corresponding Gordon’s request for the U.S. Department of Engineering enter sapper parts for special purposes, denied his participation in such operations.
Then Gordon found retirees among the residents of Kexburg, and they explained that mainly land operations took part troops, but among them there were also Air Force officers.
Meanwhile, in one of the reports of the Blue Book there is only a brief link to a group of specialists from three people seconded to Kexburg from the 662nd Radar Reconnaissance Squadron, located at the Air Force base in Pittsburgh. In a brief report to the name state police claimed nothing in the forest was not found, but in the sky people saw a meteorite, which probably burned in the atmosphere before reaching the ground.
“Fire Drop”
And the expert conclusions of the Blue Book, and the conclusions of later researchers like Frank Edwards, author of UFO books, conspiracy therapist Gerald Haines, Internet browser Leonard David, former White House chief of staff John Podesta and president sci-fi science fiction channel bonnie hammer united in case study in Kexburg.
That December evening, many residents of Keksburg and his the surrounding area saw a ball of fire in the sky, leaving behind smoky trail. Scattering sparks and burning splinters, he rushed at a height several kilometers, occasionally stopping and scattering in different sides are some fragments. At the same time, the car changed direction flight, it was engulfed in flames and deaf explosions were heard.
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An impressive carcass separated from the car of the Kexburg forest “fire drop” slipping to the ground, and he himself once again changed the trajectory and sped off in the northwest direction. After a few seconds, the earth shuddered from the impact, and with the place of fall rose a column of bluish smoke …
A quarter of an hour later, calls began from alarmed residents to Sheriff’s office, at a local radio station in the county center of Greensburg, in the newspaper and even the federal police department. Someone reported a collision in the sky of two meteors, someone saw a blazing plane, and someone even ejected “pilots” on burning parachutes.
Kexburg Acorn Odyssey
The next stage of his investigation, Gordon devoted the route evacuation of the “heavenly acorn.” Then he managed to find a guard with airbase Lockborn. He remembered well how in the late night of December 10 In 1965 a car convoy arrived with some massive cargo. After refueling and changing drivers, he drove to the air base early in the morning Wright Patterson in Dayton.
It should be noted that the Wright-Patterson base has long been considered at ufologists center for the study of “alien artifacts”, and her former and current employees easily earn on credulity UFO seekers. This is probably why Gordon quickly found someone Myron, who told how a few days after Kexburg incident received his building materials factory from the base Wright-Patterson order for a batch of “radiation resistant bricks.”
Special double-layer glazed briquettes, according to Myron, intended for the construction of a protective casing around the object brought by a special convoy. On the territory of the base cargo bricks were met by people in white hoodies, helmets with transparent visors, rubber gloves and boots.
Inside the hangar, Myron saw a bright light a bell-shaped object measuring three by three meters. Its charred the metal shell looked like dull copper or bronze and in places it was covered with thick spots of soot. Myron went to A worker with an acetylene burner, who immediately told curious builder that can not cut the shell “bells” to get inside. Previously they have been unsuccessfully tried diamond drills and acids …
Exiting, Myron looked around and suddenly noticed … “a small body, covered with a blanket. A brown hand protruded from beneath the fabric, like at the lizard, with three fingers. ”
AMC disaster
Meanwhile, many of Gordon’s conclusions generally agree with those of Blue Book experts. First of all, remember the amazing efficiency of military actions. It seems that the Air Force confidently “drove” UFOs and knew perfectly well what was flying in the sky Pennsylvania.
And indeed, it was then that the Earth’s orbit failed Soviet spacecraft Cosmos-96. This massive the automatic interplanetary station (AMS) was intended for studies of Venus and after the accident entered the dense atmosphere just above the North American continent, collapsing over southeastern Canada on December 9, 1965. Coincide not only day and the place of impact of the interplanetary probe, but also the shape of the apparatus, resembling a bell or a giant acorn.
Needless to say, the surviving AMS fragments represented very great interest for NASA experts. Also soviet the apparatus was equipped with a new radioisotope energy source and could lead to radioactive contamination of the fall site.
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Gordon and ufologists in every possible way deny such a version, however astronomer Bob Schmidt from Pittsburgh controversy with “independent researchers “cites the fact that his colleagues from NASA at the end 1965 studied a fragment of the nose cone obtained from somewhere the fallen Russian rocket.
In principle, some discrepancy in the fall time is also explainable. Cosmos-96, which entered the stratosphere over Canada at 3:18 a.m. – for 13 hours before the crash near Keksburgom. The fact is that the contingency the situation with the AMS was accompanied by the separation of solar cells and subsequent bifurcation of the apparatus into large fragments. One of them – a more streamlined nose compartment – managed to make extra turns around the Earth, falling into the Kexburg forest on the evening of October 9.
At the same time, Russian Cyrillic appearing through soot could well be mistaken for unknown “hieroglyphs”.
Oleg FAYG
NASA USA
