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SUBJECT: KECKSBURG CRASH CONTROVERSIAL FILE: UFO15
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PART 2 OF 2
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John said the state police were there and the area was soon
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quarantined.
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"They drove us out. It was late at night when we finally got
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back to the fire hall and it had been completely taken over by the
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military. They were carrying in large pieces of equipment, radios
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and
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such, and they had armed guards posted outside so nobody could get
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in
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or out. The firemen were thrown out. We weren't even allowed in to
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use the bathroom.
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"The military had control of the whole operation," John recalled.
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"After a while we saw a flat bed truck come by with some other
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military equipment, a crane or something.
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"It was not too much longer, an hour, an hour and a half, when
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the trucks came back and there was a large object on the back of the
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flat bed, covered by a tarp, with military escorts front and back.
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I
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got the feeling that if you had stepped on the road you were dead
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meat. They weren't stopping for anything."
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Although the object was later said to be a meteorite, John
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doesn't buy that explanation.
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"It had writing on it, not like your average writing, but more
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like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. It had sort of a bumper on it,
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like a ribbon about six to 10 inches wide, and it stood out. It was
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elliptical the whole way around and the writing was on this bumper.
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It's nothing like I've ever seen, and I'm an avid reader. I read a
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lot of books on Egypt, the Incas, Peruvians, Russians and I've never
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to this day come across anything that looked like that."
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John notes that later it was denied that the object was even a
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meteorite, and the military "denied they were even in the area. But
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I
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know there were Air Force and Army personnel involved. It was like
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they just came out of the woodwork."
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Gordon's research has revealed that one of the military groups
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involved was most likely to be the 662nd Radar Squadron, based at the
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Oakdale Armory, located near Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.
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The squadron was found to be under the control of the Aerospace
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Defense Command, and attempts to get information on the Kecksburg
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crash, through the Freedom of Information Act, have not provided much
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to go on.
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One response said there had been no record of the squadron being
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activated on that date, Gordon said, wondering how so much equipment
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and personnel could be activated while the monthly report showed no
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entry on Dec. 9.
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Through his research, Gordon says he knows the Air Force was
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still investigating UFO cases at the public level then, and that it
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was apparently the Project Blue Book staff which contacted the 662nd
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squadron. Subsequent reports have led him to theorize that even the
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Project Blue Book staff was not made aware of objects which could
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"affect national security," and that some intelligence teams
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investigated crashes of "foreign space vehicles."
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Another strange occurrence that night, Gordon said, was reports
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by
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some civilians that radiation was released. He explained that some
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children playing in the area had reportedly been told by military
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personnel that that was a possibility, and men in decontamination
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suits were allegedly seen at the site later the next day.
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Although he has considered the possibility that the object could
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have been space debris or a test device, Gordon says documents and
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evidence obtained in the last few years lead more in the direction
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of
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it being a "true UFO."
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John concurs.
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"It was definitely not of this planet. At the time I was a
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skeptical teen, but when you see something like that you don't forget
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it. When you get called out like that from the fire department you
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think you're going out looking for an aircraft of some sort, not a
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UFO.
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"I'll never forget it. I still want to know what the hell it
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was."
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