On December 9th

On December 9, 1965, witnesses across several states and Ontario tracked a fireball; local reports placed an object in the Kecksburg woods with a military recovery. The record dates it to 1965-12-09. Kecksburg UFO incident site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears i

On December 9, 1965, a fireball tracked over the northern US and Canada reportedly came down in the woods outside Kecksburg. Witnesses described an acorn-shaped metallic object; state police and the military cordoned the site overnight. The Air Force later called it a meteor — a verdict the town, and its annual UFO festival, firmly rejects.