Kecksburg fireball and recovery reports
- When
- Where
- Kecksburg, PA
- Sources
- 2 public sources
After a fireball crossed several states, witnesses in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, said an object came down in the woods and military personnel hauled something away. A FOIA suit led NASA to a court-monitored search in 2007-2009 that found no records of a recovered object.
Sources
How the story came out
Happened 9 Dec 1965. First made public 24 years later (1990).
- 9 Dec 1965It happened (this event)
- 1990Unsolved Mysteries airs its Kecksburg segment - first made public
- Oct 2007NASA agrees to new Kecksburg records search to settle FOIA suit