The UFO Phenomenon
19th Kecksburg UFO festival celebrates legendary local incident
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T.K. RandallJuly 21, 2024 ·
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The UFO parade has long proven a hit. Image Credit: YouTube / CBS Pittsburgh
Crowds descended on the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania over the weekend to celebrate UFO culture.
Fans of the strange and unusual have been flocking to the area over the last few days to participate in what has become one of the country's most popular UFO festivals.
In addition to the event's iconic UFO parade, there has also been a UFO-themed hot dog eating contest, a hay bale tossing contest and a series of presentations by well known UFO researchers.
But it's the Kecksburg UFO incident itself that has long remained the star of the show.
The strangeness began on December 9th, 1965 when thousands of witnesses across six US states and parts of Canada observed a peculiar fireball that dropped "hot metal debris" as it blazed through the heavens.
Despite the sightings being fairly widespread, however, it was the small town of Kecksburg in Pennsylvania that would become most closely associated with the incident.
It started when a young local boy claimed to have seen the object come down in nearby woods and his mother later reported it to the authorities when she saw strange blue wisps rising from the trees.
Several locals, including members of the fire department, went out to investigate the scene and found an odd acorn-shaped object the size of a small car with strange writing on its surface.
Within a short space of time there were reports of an intense military presence at the crash site with army officials ordering civilians away from the scene while the object was being loaded onto a truck.
The incident was later played down as nothing more than a meteor impact, however many people still believe that the military had been covering up something a lot more significant.
In 2005, NASA claimed that an analysis of fragments retrieved from the site had identified them as being parts of a Soviet satellite, but official records concerning the find had been lost in the 1980s.
Investigative journalist Leslie Kean even sued NASA under the Freedom of Information Act and while the space agency was ultimately ordered to search for the records, their whereabouts were never determined.
Some believe that the documents were hidden or destroyed as part of a cover-up, while others believe that it was more likely to be the US Air Force, not NASA, that had possession of the files.
Whatever the case, no definitive explanation for the incident has ever been forthcoming.
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