Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
You can listen to the interview I did with the eyewitness at
the following link: https://jmp.sh/X5Xr18p
On December 9, 1965 hundreds of
eyewitnesses watched an amazing object streak across the sky, the object was
witnessed from Canada all the way to Kecksburg, Pennsylvania where the object
crash landed. Soon after it was reported to be a spectacular meteorite by
military and other officials. Eyewitnesses who saw the object, claimed what
they saw sitting in a ravine was certainly no meteorite, but rather an unknown
object.
I received an email from a gentleman
who told me he had been witness to the crashed object at Kecksburg,
Pennsylvania. What I didn't realize was that this fellow, who was 15 years old
at the time, and out hunting with his brother and a friend may have been the
first eyewitness to actually see the crashed object.
In the interview I have done with
him, he goes on to tell of an amazing story and notes that later in life while
serving in the military he came across a pilot who was scrambled to intercept
the Kecksburg UFO. Because I feel that this is such an important piece to the
puzzle I have decided to post the audio clip to my website where visitors can
listen to the actual audio interview which can be heard at the link below.
I would like to give my many thanks
to the eyewitness for his excellent report. Also I would like to encourage any
other folks who have been witness to this event, or have any information to
please contact me at: hbccufo@telus.net
I have written up the report which I
have taken from the audio interview I did with the eyewitness today, October
22, 2005. The full report is below.
As mentioned above I called the
witness on October 22, 2005 and took his statement of the events that he
remembers happening in Kecksburg,
Pennsylvania. The man was very aware of what he saw, although this event took
place so many years ago. So he went on to explain why he was in the area at the
time of the amazing experience and of course described what he saw.
The witness said it was a
particularly warm night for December, by local standard it was rather balmy he
told me. He, his brother and a friend decided to go raccoon hunting. They
gathered up the three dogs and drove out to an area called Freeman Falls. From
there the fellows all split up and had
agreed to meet back at the truck.
They were walking through the woods
with quite a bit of space between them.
Larry, the man I spoke with, was at the lowest end of the line, which
had him closer to where the crash site was going to be. At one point, as he was
moving through the woods, he looked back in the direction of Kecksburg because
a bright light happened to catch his eye.
His first thoughts were that it was
a plane with a orange landing light on it, but quickly realized that the light
was just to bright to be on a plane, and seemed now to be a plane on fire or in
trouble. All of a sudden whatever it was, changed course 90 degrees very
abruptly.
At this point the object was heading
directly towards his position but again it made another course change, moving
away from him. Then suddenly its direction changed once more and seemed to be heading straight for him.
He stated that it appeared to
maintain a certain altitude then all of a sudden made a sharp dip downwards
from roughly 500 to 600 feet in altitude to approximately 300 feet and at a high
rate of speed. Standing rather in shock, he assumed his brother and friend had
also seen this due to it's brightness and flying at such a low level. But he
told me that the other two people had not seen it, which may have been
due to them being a distance away from him. From this point he watched
it come down.
He moved quickly threw the woods
with one of the dogs to the area where the object had crashed and scrambled down into the ravine, thinking
he might be able to help someone from the crash. He immediately noticed a small
brush fire had started around the crash area.
Once in the ravine and close enough to the crashed object, he quickly
figured out that what he was looking at was not an airplane that he knew of.
The object had partially dug itself
into the ravine and he could see that
approximately two to three feet of it was buried into the ground. He
noted the back side of the object was flat and approximately five feet in
diameter and the sides looked textured/rippled.
Larry had with him a six volt dry
cell light that he was using for raccoon hunting, he shone the light on the
object and could see that it was steaming due to the intense heat it was giving
off, plus some smoke due to the small brush fires that had been started.
With his light, he tried to see if
there was any kind of opening or identifying markings on it, but saw a metal
band about one foot up from the base. Larry could clearly see some kind of
drawings or lettering on the band. It was maybe two inches wide. Still looking
at the lettering or figures, to him they made no sense or were not any written
language he had seen before. He said there were a series of dots, swirls,
triangular shapes and some looked like crosses with two lateral lines running
across them.
At the time, he was only about 15
feet away from the bronze colored object and seeing Larry was looking at
something very unknown to him, his next thought was to go back to get his
brother and then to seek or get to the phone to call for help. He climbed back
out of the ravine, couldn't find his dog anywhere, then whistled and his dog
did finally come to him.
Running through the bush and yelling
out his brothers name, he finally met up with his brother and the friend. The
first thing out of Larry's brother's mouth was, "my god, what was
it"? Larry took his brother and friend to the area where the object was
embedded into the ground to show them, all of them at a bit of a distance and
the other two could not figure out what it was either.
Then the fellows all heard the fire
engines coming in their direction from Kecksburg. Seeing the fire department
was on the way, Larry's brother mentioned that there wasn't much they could do,
so they left and took the dogs home.
(Note: Larry thought it was
important to note that when the three of the fellows were standing looking at
the object, and having their dogs with them all of the dogs were certainly
agitated and had the hair standing up on their backs and sniffing the air. The
dogs also kept trying to hide behind the fellows as the leashes were getting
caught up in the guys legs).
After the brothers arrived home they
told their parents about what they had seen and that got the boys father's
curiosity going and they decided to go back for another look. Larry said at that
time alot of folks were driving up to the area to see what had happened. Of course by this time the Mount Pleasant
Fire Department was on the scene as they thought they were heading to a plane
crash.
Of course when the general public
and Larry and his family arrived near the location where he saw the object, the
Sheriff's department had already erected a barrier across the road and not
allowing anyone to get close to the crash site. When Larry's father asked the
Sheriff what had happened, he said he had no information other than the Fire
Department was dealing with the incident.
Eventually they left and went back
home, and watched the news later that evening but didn't hear anything really
on what happened. But the next day Larry went to school and the teachers told
the classes that they were not to talk about the event that took place the
night before. Actually Larry went on to say that the teachers mentioned that
what people saw, was no more than a meteor/meteorite that has crash landed. As Larry said, he found that rather
odd that they weren't to talk about a meteor. Well he knew it wasn't a meteor
as he had witnessed it up close and personal, and told his friends about what
he witnessed.
(At this point in the interview
Larry stated the reason why he was coming out with this now was he hoped that
by telling what he saw in the ravine that night, it just might mend the rift
that was dividing the community. He also stated that what hit the ground was
certainly not a meteor, he wasn't claiming it to be a UFO as he just didn't
have any ideas to what it was he saw. He even had thoughts of it being a
Russian Space Capsule).
Larry spoke about the reproduction
that was made of the object and which was placed on top of the Kecksburg Fire
Department, it was very similar to what he saw in the ravine that evening.
As the months and years passed by
and things settled down over the event that took place in Kecksburg, it was a
few years later when Larry enlisted into the Airforce as a aircraft fighter
mechanic, and was stationed at Hamilton AFB which is located in Marin County,
CA. He was in the barracks one evening when the alert siren went off and some
F106 jet interceptors were scrambled and had intercepted something over the
Pacific ocean.
He mentioned that this was common as
the Russian and American aircraft would play this cat and mouse game. Over some
time the aircraft mechanics and pilots became rather close, and they became
good friends. Larry told me that one of the pilots stationed at the base was a very
seasoned pilot, did two tours in Vietnam and the next day Larry asked the pilot
who was a Major, you guys were scrambled last night, the pilot said yes. Larry
asked were the Russian playing games again, and the pilot replied: Quote:
"I don't know what the hell it was"!
Larry then started talking to him
and related his story of what he saw in the ravine at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
Larry said the pilots jaw dropped almost to the ground. And asked, you actually
saw it ? Larry said yes and assumed he was the first person to see the object.
Well it ended up that the pilot had a good friend who served with the Michigan
National Guard back in 1965 who actually intercepted the object which fell in
Kecksburg on the same night Larry saw the object.
There were a number of fighter
aircraft that had followed the object, or from their aircraft could track it.
Larry assumed that the fighter jets had tracked the object for some distance
before it hit the ground, but he said he had heard no aircraft on the night the
object crashed.
Later on after the Michigan National
Guard pilots who followed the object returned to their base, they were told by
base commanders that the object had landed in Western Pennsylvania and was
nothing more than a meteorite. End of story!
Brian Vike asked Larry if he roughly
knew when the military showed up in the town of Kecksburg. He said
approximately one hour after the object crashed. I also asked how far away any
military base would have been from the crash site. Larry said the nearest base was
not all that far away. (Brian Vike is wondering how the military was able to
arrive so quickly after the object crashed, and in force by the sounds of it.
Then one looks at the fighter
aircraft already being sent out and following the object, the military knew
ahead of time where the unknown had come down, or at least the approximate
location where to look. Of course Larry believed the military were also already
on their way as well as they had to have been tracking it as it came in).
Larry said another thing he felt
important to mention was, that night of the crash when they came back with
their father to the crash area, the Fire Department were there along with the
police who did have the road blocked off so no traffic was able to pass by as I
mentioned in the report above. But then the next day the family traveled back to the area where
the object came down, Larry said the military were everywhere!
And in another hamlet called Mammoth
the military were walking all over the area and with a barrier set up, and on
the barrier there was a sign which read, "deadly force authorized beyond
this point", "no admittance" and the soldiers were carrying
M-14's weapons and Larry said they were pointing the guns in the direction of
people. And of course the military still telling everyone in the community that
all the object was, was a meteorite.
As Larry said, why all the fuss and
pointing weapons at folks if all it was, was a meteorite.
Larry also remarks, when the
military really lost credibility, is when they said nothing had landed.
Anyway he went on to say it was the
night of the second day of the crash, or the night after the crash the military
removed what ever it was on a flatbed truck covered with a large tarp and
rumors were saying it went to Wright-Patterson AFB.
Larry also said folks living at the
junction at Media Road (?) witnessed the military trucks (a number of them)
moving into the area, one appeared to be a mobile command unit and pulling a
trailer. A perimeter was set up all around the crash site.
Larry said about a year or two after
the crash, and them still hunting in the area when his brother was coming over
the top of a hill and walking through a hay field he came across a K- ration
can. After his brother found the one K- ration, he kicked the ground a little
bit and discovered a few more cans, of course military issue.
The fellows investigated a little
more to see if they might find any more trash left behind by the military, and
Larry said nothing else was found. They swept the area in a circular pattern,
but he thought it might be interesting if someone was to go to the area with a
metal detector to see what, if anything, they might be able to find, which
might provide an answer to how the area was cordoned off to the general public by
the military.
So there we have an interesting
report from a person who had an incredible experience, one I am sure he will
never ever forget.
You can listen to the interview I did with the eyewitness at
the following link: https://jmp.sh/X5Xr18p
I would also like to thank Larry for
allowing me to do an interview with him for the audio portion, and also for a
fascinating report.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British
Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
