What happened
On December 9, 1965, at around 4:45 p.m., a bright fireball streaked over Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, shedding burning fragments, and grass fires broke out in several places. In Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, residents reported that something had fallen into the woods. According to their accounts, a metal object the size of a small car lay at the site, shaped like an acorn, with a band resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics. Soon soldiers cordoned off the area, and during the night a military truck with a covered load supposedly drove out of the woods. Officially, the military found nothing. In 2003 the Sci Fi Channel took up the case, and journalist Leslie Kean sued NASA for the release of documents.
Witnesses
Kecksburg residents, volunteer firefighters, a local radio reporter; the fireball was seen by thousands of people in several states and in Canada.
Explanations and hypotheses
Project Blue Book and astronomers concluded that the fireball was a bolide and that its trajectory points to an impact area near Detroit, not in Pennsylvania. The hypothesis of the Soviet probe Kosmos 96 collapsed because, according to orbital data, it had burned up many hours earlier. In 2005 NASA stated that it had examined debris from a Russian satellite, but it did not release the full files. Some residents still claim that the military took something away from the site.
Disputed A likely explanation exists, but some of the facts are still disputed.
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