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Astonishing Legends

Kecksburg Revisited with Stan Gordon

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Tonight's show will be a special treat for those listeners who've been patiently awaiting a revamping of our coverage of the Kecksburg UFO incident. Those unfamiliar with the case but entertain a curiosity with mysterious, non-organic objects falling from our skies meeting an equally mysterious fate will also find this episode fascinating. In the late afternoon of December 9, 1965, thousands of citizens watched as a large, fiery object streaked through the skies over at least six to eight U.S. States and Ontario, Canada. Many who observed its unusually slow path claimed it seemed to be under "intelligent control." While astronomers continued to assume it was merely a meteor bolide entering Earth's atmosphere, some type of craft crash-landed in the woods near the town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Local eye-witnesses and First Responders who descended onto the scene described the object as looking like a giant acorn, large enough for a human to stand in, and encircling a band near its base were strange markings some likened to Egyptian hieroglyphs. Uncharacteristically for something as natural as a meteor landing, military authorities, purported NASA personnel, and State troopers immediately arrived and cordoned off the crash site and shooed away onlookers. The object was loaded onto a flatbed truck along with multiple unknown containers, tarped and hauled away to some government facility, which would be the last time any unauthorized civilian would see it. This was before initial reports that the U.S. Air Force and State troopers found "absolutely nothing" during their search. There have since been speculations that the craft was a downed Soviet space probe called Kosmos 96, or perhaps a General Electric Mark 2 Re-entry Vehicle. While we could've revisited the story with just these oft-told elements and our own speculations, we thought it was best to wait patiently to speak to an authority who's studied the case for decades for some much-needed insight. We're finally fortunate enough to talk with Stan Gordon, a paranormal investigator from the area who's researched the Kecksburg crash since his teens, and has tracked all of the associated High Strangeness that has followed. Also joining the conversation is Stan's friend Ron Struble, a witness to the original incident as a Kecksburg Volunteer Firefighter. This a discussion that not only examines a plausible scenario through reported facts but one that has altered our assessment of one of the most well-documented cases in UFOlogy, one that has become known as "Pennsylvania's Roswell."

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0:00.0

Welcome back to meditation mindset. Time spent alone is the most important.

0:06.3

Sir, are you still in the bath?

0:08.3

Yes, I'm listening to my podcast.

0:10.8

Can I come in?

0:12.0

No, no, no!

0:13.4

Just need to grab the core clipers. Don't worry, I'll cover my eyes.

0:16.6

What? Whoa!

0:19.0

Come on, we're gonna fall for you.

0:22.6

I'm still not looking.

0:24.2

And I'm not listening to my podcast.

0:26.8

Don't want batting.

0:28.1

Meir-hatting.

0:29.2

Simple!

0:30.2

Estonishing legends. We'd like to thank SimplySafe, Miller Highlife, The Great Courses Plus,

0:34.9

Mint Mobile, HelloFresh, our contributors at patreon.com and you, our listeners, for making

0:40.2

tonight's show possible.

0:43.6

In December of 1965, thousands of people across six states in Ontario, Canada bore witness

0:50.5

to a bright, ball of fire in the sky that reportedly changed directions and flight before crashing

0:55.4

in the small Pennsylvania town of Kexberg.

0:58.2

With that many witnesses, there can be no doubt that something, indeed, fell from the

1:02.7

sky that night.

1:04.3

The mystery only begins there, however.

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