December 9, 2025, Will Mark The 60^th Anniversary of the Kecksburg, PA UFO Incident. The Mystery Deepens

From: Researcher Stan Gordon

This is an updated sculpt depiction of the seamless Kecksburg acorn shaped UFO created by Ron Lanham of Wild & Weird West Virginia www.wildandweirdwv.com

There is one physical detail of the Kecksburg object that is not widely known that was reported by some witnesses who had a close view of the object. They reported seeing a protuberance extending out from the front of the object. That was possibly a hatch.

December 9, 2025, will mark sixty years since I heard the breaking news reports of what would later become known as the Kecksburg UFO Incident. I was sixteen years old at that time, and I was already curious about alleged UFO sightings that were being reported from around the country. I have never personally had the opportunity to see a UFO.

The news story breaks in the Pittsburgh area.

It was on the evening of December 9, 1965, that I turned on my AM radio to listen to the Contact radio talk show on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. To my surprise, the program was focusing on breaking news concerning a fiery object that had been observed in the sky over Canada, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, including the Pittsburgh area. Local newspapers, radio, and TV offices as well as police stations were jammed with many phone calls concerning the luminous object that had passed over the area.

Later that evening, additional news was broadcast that the object that had been seen over the Pittsburgh area had crashed into a wooded area close to Kecksburg in Westmoreland County. More startling was the information that the military was arriving in that area to search for an unidentified flying object. Hundreds of people traveled to that rural community to try to get a look at the object that had reportedly landed.

Reporters confirm the military presence.

During that Thursday evening reporters from numerous radio and TV stations, and newspapers, also rushed to the Kecksburg area to confirm the reports. I later had the opportunity to interview many of those reporters. Various reporters confirmed that they observed military equipment and personnel around Kecksburg and near the area where the object had reportedly fallen. Bob Gatty, a reporter for the local Greensburg Tribune-Review, was on the scene that night, and later wrote about his experiences.

Army, Air Force, and NASA personnel reported at the scene. Navy reportedly was also involved.

Numerous people who were in the area that evening confirmed seeing Army and Air Force personnel around the Kecksburg area and near the location where the object had fallen.

I also interviewed other locals, some who said they also saw or interacted with NASA personnel in that area.

Photo from Stan Gordon files-The Kecksburg V.F.D. truck station was reported to have been used as a temporary military command post during the evening of December 9, 1965.

There is information that the Navy had an interest in the incident soon after it had been announced that an object had fallen. The Navy was reportedly also involved with the examination of the recovered object after it arrived at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Photo from Stan Gordon files-I was told by former Kecksburg firefighters (now deceased) that some of their crew had driven members of the military brass on a fire truck like what is shown in the photo, down to the woods where the object had fallen. When they got closer to the site, the military stopped the vehicle. The military men left the truck and walked the rest of the way, and made the firefighters return to their station.

Some people who got close to the woods and the impact area were stopped that evening by armed soldiers. Witnesses have gone on record and stated that soldiers aimed their rifles at them and ordered them to leave the area.

During the years following that incident, I interviewed hundreds of people who had information concerning what had taken place.

 This is the sketch of the object drawn by a witness who observed it pass low overhead moments before impact.

The object changes direction along its trajectory.

I learned from many witnesses that as the object passed over the Pittsburgh area, it was moving from northwest to southeast from Allegheny County into Westmoreland County and over the city of Greensburg. It moved toward Route 30 east near what was then the Gee Bee department store and made a turn to the south. The object was observed from such areas as Margurite, Norvelt, Mammoth, and over the outskirts of Kecksburg, as it continued to move toward the mountains near Laurelville about 3.5 miles away.

 The object makes a slow descent.

The object reportedly hesitated over the mountain, then began to travel back toward the outskirts of Kecksburg, then turned again and dropped down into the woods. Local residents who saw the object fall said that it was moving quite slowly and went down as though it was making a controlled landing. There were no parachutes reported at the site during or after the landing.

The local residents discover an unusual object semi-buried in the ground.

We did not know at the time that some of the locals who saw the object fall into the nearby woods went down into that area thinking that an aircraft had fallen. What they located was unlike anything they had ever seen before. What they saw was a metallic acorn shaped object partially buried in the ground. The device was large enough for a man to stand up inside of. The object was a bronze-gold color, and appeared to be one solid piece of metal, which had no apparent weld marks, rivets, or seams.

At the back of the acorn shaped device was what witness Jim Romansky called the bumper area. That is where what looked like unusual symbols were seen on the surface. Romansky, who was a machinist for much of his life and worked with metals, said the object looked as though it had been formed from liquid metal that had been poured into an acorn shaped mold.

Two military flatbed tractor trailer trucks at the scene that evening.

Over the years there were certain details that I did not publicly reveal until I had enough independent confirmation from witnesses. One such detail was that there was not one, but two military flatbed tractor trailer trucks on the scene near the impact site that evening near Kecksburg. I interviewed one of the drivers many years after the incident had taken place. The first truck, carrying a flat load of cargo covered with a tarp, left the area earlier that evening. It traveled to the Air Force base in Pittsburgh. The driver had no idea what was under the tarp.

The military recovers the object.

The object was removed from the area around 1 AM, on the second military flatbed tractor trailer truck covered with a tarp. Independent sources, including former military, confirmed that that truck and object arrived at Lockbourne Air Force base near Columbus, Ohio during the early morning hours of December 10th. That truck was backed into a hangar, and an armed security team surrounded the hangar. The truck and its cargo only stayed at that base for a brief time. It later continued its journey to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I learned that the object was delivered and stored in a building in the Area B section of the base. It was not the infamous Hangar 18.

Military Jets reportedly pursued the object.

Sketch from Stan Gordon Files

Over many years, various independent witnesses provided details to me that one or two military jets were observed over various locations of Ohio and Pennsylvania following along the path that the object had taken soon after it had passed.

A Military Jet Reportedly Fired a Missile at The Kecksburg Object Over Michigan.

In 2024, I received some interesting information from a man from Michigan via email. I conducted a long interview with him the next day. That person had never heard about the Kecksburg case until several years ago. He told me that he realized that he was an inadvertent witness to the incident. The witness made me aware that he was elderly and not feeling well and he wanted to pass on this information to me while he was still around. He was able to provide me with certain details that his experience did take place on that date in 1965. Briefly, he was on a date at a drive-in restaurant near Pontiac, Michigan. It was just getting dark outside, as they received their food and pulled away to an area where other cars were parked.

A brief time later what looked like a big dark ball surrounded by red and yellow flames passed quickly overhead traveling from northwest to southeast. What happened next frightened the witness even more. The witness observed an F-101 Voodoo military fighter jet trailing the object. The military jet fired a missile at the object as it moved directly along the same path. Moments later, the sky was illuminated again. The witness stated that what he saw “scared him quite a bit.” The man also mentioned that six other people had also witnessed what had taken place. You can read that report here: https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2024/12/09/the-kecksburg-pennsylvania-ufo-incident-59-years-later-a-new-detail-revealed/

The incident was included in the Project Blue Book files but not listed under Kecksburg.

The only official document concerning the Kecksburg incident was in the Air Force Project Blue Book files. That document was uncovered in the mid-1980s by researcher Ray Boeche. Included in that report it was stated, “A further call was made to the Oakdale Radar site in Pennsylvania. A three-man team has been dispatched to Acme to investigate and pick up an object that started a fire.” I learned that some witnesses who were involved with the incident had been interviewed by an Air Force officer at the time. They lived close to the impact site, however, they had an Acme mailing address. That is likely why the incident location was listed as Acme rather than Kecksburg. While the report showed a lot of interest from various agencies concerning this incident, the report also indicates that a search of the area found nothing.

The Steel City- Nike/Hercules Missile Air Defense System Reportedly went on Alert.

At the time of the incident, the Pittsburgh (Steel City) was guarded by the U.S. Army’s Nike/Hercules Air Defense System. Those installations surrounded the Pittsburgh area with radar and missile launch sites. Many years ago, information was received that as the object passed over the Pittsburgh area, sirens were going off at a launch site near Pittsburgh. The sound of sirens at the base reportedly indicated that missiles were being raised for a possible launch. No missiles were fired.

That site reportedly remained on high alert throughout the night. The defense systems operations center known as “Missile Master” was located at the Oakdale Army support facility. That is the facility where members of the 662^nd Radar Squadron were stationed. Some members of that unit were involved with the Kecksburg incident.

Investigators Returned to the Impact Site the Next Day.

The day following the incident newspapers reported that a search of the wooded area until the early morning hours found nothing. State police blamed the sighting on the imagination of young children. The official explanation was that witnesses had seen a meteor passing through the sky. The search had officially ended.

That was not the case. Over the years I learned from various local residents that the day after the occurrence, (Friday) a smaller group of investigators were seen going back into the woods where the object had fallen. That group included men in white decontamination outfits. John Hayes and his brother, who lived close to where the object fell, watched the military activity on Thursday night from the windows around their house. The woods were their playground, and they played in there daily.

The next morning, they walked toward the woods to look around. The first thing they noticed was that the fence that secured their animals had been cut, apparently to let the military vehicles pass through to move toward the impact site. When the boys entered the woods, they noticed that some trees had been knocked down. They also encountered a man with some type of device possibly a metal detector or Geiger counter. The man told the boys that they needed to leave the woods, that there was the possibility of radiation in that area. The boys ran home not knowing what radiation meant. Two different area newspapers also confirmed that investigators did return to the site the next day.

What was the object?

There have been numerous theories since the time the incident occurred speculating what the object might have been that fell near Kecksburg in 1965. The first explanation I heard was told to me by members of a family who were involved with the incident. An Air Force officer spoke with them that evening. He told them that a Gemini capsule had been expelled in the area. Some of the other explanations have been a meteor, a malfunctioning Soviet Venus probe, various U.S. or Soviet space projects, a projectile fired from a giant gun on a railroad car in Canada, a bomb, GE Mark2 Reentry Vehicle, and the Nazi Bell. No definitive proof has been presented to confirm any of these theories. There are others who saw the object or had knowledge of the incident and believe the object was not manmade.

I continue to keep an open mind concerning the origin of the object. I speculated for years that this could have been some very secretive, advanced, man-made space probe that had some re-entry-control capabilities.

There has been other information that has surfaced over the years. There are witnesses who saw something other than the object, and they believe that what they saw was not from this planet.

Was Something Inside of the object?

My close research associate the late George Lutz, a former Air Force pilot and officer, spent years investigating the Kecksburg case with me and interviewing witnesses. We discussed among ourselves that this object could have been some type of escape pod that was man-made or from somewhere else.

During my many years of investigating the Kecksburg case I crossed paths with numerous interesting individuals. I also had contact with some important people in the UFO field and others who had interesting UFO related knowledge to share. One such individual was the late Len Stringfield. Len was often referred to as the Father of UFO Crash Retrievals. Len and I began our communications in the early 1970s, and that continued until his passing in 1994. Len was involved in investigating some reports associated with the Kecksburg incident.

Military whistleblowers have told congress that they had knowledge that there was a secret UFO recovery program operational for many years. There was discussion that objects of non-human origin had been recovered as well as alien bodies. I believe those whistleblowers are telling the truth.

It is now the right time for me to discuss some stranger aspects of the Kecksburg incident that are not well known or has not been discussed before. I believe the witnesses that I interviewed who provided information were telling me the truth to the best of their knowledge. They had nothing to gain. Many of those people waited many years before confiding in me, and most were still reluctant to discuss what they knew. They are no longer with us.

There was a man that I knew personally, and I can vouch for his honesty. He worked in law enforcement at various levels for many years and later worked for a government agency. He told me that it was a day or two after the Kecksburg incident had taken place that he happened to cross paths with an individual outside of Greensburg, Pennsylvania City Hall. That person was an important public official. The man I knew told me he was a friend of that official. My acquaintance had heard that the official was on the scene at Kecksburg on the day the object had fallen. He began to question him.

 That man replied that he was one of the first officials on the scene that day. He told him that he saw a craft in the woods, and watched them put it onto a flatbed truck, cover it, and leave with it. He stated to my friend, “I will say this. It wasn’t anything I have ever seen before. It wasn’t from this world.” He went on to say that was all he was going to tell him. He then walked to his official car and left the area. They never talked about it again.

There was another individual who I met, that I felt confident had told me the truth about what he knew about the Kecksburg incident. It was in the 1990’s, that I met that man. I happened to be in a business meeting when we started up a conversation. This had nothing to do with my interest in UFOs. That man did not know who I was or my interest in that topic. While talking he began to tell me about his previous military career.

I then told him about my interest in the subject of UFOs and my involvement with the Kecksburg case. Suddenly he had an odd look on his face and stated, “I know about that incident. I read the file report on it.” He told me, however, that he was only able to read a small part of the report. The file was about twenty-five pages thick in a manila folder. He had seen the report many years before.

He mentioned that the report had to do with the recovery of a UFO in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Kecksburg is in Westmoreland County. The incident occurred in 1965. An interesting detail he recalled was that samples of what was believed to be living tissue had been recovered and were being sent to Washington. That man was not in good health at the time I met him, and he has also passed away.

Several witnesses over many years, and unknown to each other reluctantly shared information with me related to the Kecksburg case. What they told me suggested that someone or something may have been inside of the object. Here is a synopsis of just a few of those accounts.

It was in the late 1960s or 1970s, that I was hearing rumors that two or three non-human bodies had been recovered in the Kecksburg area in 1965. For years there was no reliable information to take those stories seriously. Many years later, however, some additional details began to come to my attention.

*I received information that some military personnel on the evening of the incident were seen carrying what appeared to be a body lying on a stretcher near the wooded area where the object had fallen.

*Bill Weaver drove to the area near where the object had fallen after hearing a news broadcast. He was parked there when a large white unmarked box truck pulled up. Exiting the truck were four men in what Bill called moon suits/hazmat outfits. They carried a large white box container with four handles down the hill to where the object had fallen. The container was too small for the object to fit in, so what was its purpose?

*After the Unsolved Mysteries show was aired in 1990, I received a lot of information from across the country concerning the Kecksburg case. A man called me and stated that he assumed it was okay for him to talk to me about what he knew about the incident since it had been on TV.

That person was a truck driver from Ohio who along with another truck driver, delivered a large supply of a special type of brick to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base just days after the object had been recovered in Pennsylvania.

A military flatbed trailer was seen at the base the day before by the other driver. On the trailer was an upright acorn shaped object covered with a tarp parked outside of a building. The next day both drivers arrived with more bricks. When they arrived, the trailer was still there, but the covered object was gone. The tarp was lying on the trailer. The man who called stated that he had sneaked into a nearby building where individuals whom he felt were Navy personnel had been going in and out of at times. That is when he saw the acorn shaped metallic object with odd symbols surrounded by scaffolding. There were ladders going up to it and men were working around it.

He did not tell me until years later when his health was poor, that inside the building where he saw the object, he also saw a work bench. On that work bench was a small body that had a cover over it. All he could see was one arm hanging down. The skin looked lizard-like, and it only had three fingers from what he could see. That witness has passed on.

It was in 2002, as news reports were surfacing about the Sci-Fi Channel’s investigation into the Kecksburg case, that several new Kecksburg witnesses came to my attention to interview. There was one name that stood out. I recognized that person from years before. I had information that the person involved was hiding down in the woods that day in 1965 as the military was arriving at the impact site. I quickly contacted him, and we planned to meet. When we met the witness told me that he was going to cancel the meeting since some close to him still did not want him to discuss what had happened. We ended up, however, having an enjoyable conversation, and he decided to share some details with me. I was able to meet with him for further interviews.

The man told me that on the day of the incident he had heard that the object had fallen into a wooded area that he was familiar with since he had hunted down in there. It was just getting dark as he arrived in the area. He walked down toward the woods when he saw odd flashes of light. He approached that area and soon came upon the semi-buried metallic object.

He hid among the trees as he watched a few civilians, then soldiers move toward the impact location. There was another individual that stood out. He saw a man dressed in a black suit and hat. He thought it was quite odd to see someone dressed like that down in the woods. That man in the black suit had a camera and was taking a lot of photos of the acorn shaped object. The man was also looking on the ground at what seemed to be a series of tracks that originated from near the object and moving off into a wooded area. That man was taking a lot of pictures of those tracks.

As the witness continued telling me what he recalled, he became more emotional. I watched the expression on his face change. His voice began to quiver. That is when he said to me, “I swear to God sir, there was something inside of that thing.” He told me he had to keep moving back into the woods as soldiers began to approach closer around the impact area. They were setting up a security perimeter around the object. The man in the dark suit was giving orders to the soldiers. The witness then watched as an Army officer jumped onto that metallic object. He had a long metal rod and for whatever reason began to strike the surface of the object.

Moments later, a hatch opened from right to left at the front of the object. The witness saw what looked like a long elastic arm extending out from the hatch opening. Moments later he heard the hatch close with a metal sound, and the officer began yelling, “hurry up we don’t have much time.” The object was then loaded onto the military flatbed tractor-trailer truck. That witness is also deceased.

There are other independent sources who have provided me with information that very short humanoid beings were seen running through various areas not far from the impact location on the day of the incident.

Indications of a quick response UFO recovery program in 1965.

I believe that there was already a quick response UFO recovery program in place in 1965, when the Kecksburg incident occurred. The fast response of military and government personnel and equipment arriving at that rural wooded area suggests that possibility. They were properly equipped to conduct the operation with trained personnel and several types of military vehicles, and even a small crane to load the object onto the flatbed tractor-trailer truck.

There was a witness that I got to know quite well over the years. He had retired from the military a few years prior the Kecksburg incident. He heard on a local radio station that a UFO had fallen near Kecksburg. He lived not far from that area and decided to drive there to see what was occurring. He arrived outside of Kecksburg in the area near where the object had reportedly fallen. He was able to describe to me some local landmarks. I knew from his descriptions that he was indeed at the correct location.

One of the first things he saw was a uniformed state trooper and an Air Force officer walking up out of the woods and moving toward the road where a military vehicle was parked. He told me that both men were white as ghosts. They both seemed significantly upset by their facial expressions. He was close enough that he was able to hear some of what they were saying. He was quite certain that he heard the state trooper say, “I’ve never seen anything like that before.” The Air Force officer did not comment.

The witness who was quite familiar with military vehicles also told me that he saw a considerable number of military vehicles coming from the road into that area. Some of that equipment was also down around the field near the woods, where the object was reportedly on the ground. He told me he saw military cars, jeeps, trucks, and two military flatbed tractor trailer trucks with large searchlights. That witness told me he was impressed at how fast that amount of military equipment and personnel had arrived in that rural area to respond to that incident. He was also impressed with the high-ranking officers he saw around the area that night that included a major and a colonel. Like so many others, that witness passed away long ago.

Some other details of interest.

*On the evening of the occurrence, more than one reporter on the scene who was taking pictures reportedly had the film confiscated from their cameras by authorities.

*I was told many years ago by a witness that he and another family member were transported from a location near the impact site to their home in a military jeep on the evening of the occurrence. While riding in the vehicle, they overheard radio transmissions that there was someone down in the woods with a camera. He said the voices sounded extremely excited and concerned until the photographer was located.

*News crews from Pittsburgh area TV stations were on the scene that evening. There were news stories about the occurrence that aired on Thursday evening and Friday. I recall watching the TV broadcast of the incident the next day that was in black and white on one of the stations. Over the years I requested local TV stations to attempt to locate the archival news reels for that day from 1965. None of that footage has ever been found after various attempts were conducted to locate what had been broadcast and should have been in the various TV stations’ news library archives.

*Over the years, various Kecksburg fire department officials confirmed to me that the records for December 9, 1965, such as the incident report logs for fire vehicles were all missing. All other records for that month were accounted for.

Mockup of the Kecksburg UFO created for the 1990 Unsolved Mysteries TV show episode.

For more information on the Kecksburg investigation see the detailed report by investigative journalist Leslie Kean that was published in the IUR International UFO reporter, Volume 30, Number I. “Forty Years of Secrecy: NASA, The Military, And The 1965 Kecksburg Crash.” It will answer many more questions.

There is no doubt that an object did fall from the sky on December 9, 1965, near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. What that object was remains a mystery. It’s time for the public to know the truth.  

If you have information on the Kecksburg incident, you can contact me.

If you have any information on the case, please give me a call or email me. It has been 60 Years. (724-838-7768) Other contact information is on my website at: www.stangordon.info.

The 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO Incident Still Remains A Mystery

From: Researcher Stan Gordon  www.stangordon.info

Mockup of the Kecksburg UFO created for the 1990 Unsolved Mysteries TV show episode

I read the recently updated article on The WOW! SIGNAL, that John Ventre and Owen Eichler had published originally in 2015, concerning the 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO incident.

https://www.thewowsignal.news/latest-news/was-the-1965-kecksburg-ufo-crash-a-ge-mark-2-reentry-vehicle

Quite a bit of the details about what had taken place near Kecksburg and related in their report originated from my investigations of the case that I began to document as it was breaking on the news on December 9, 1965.

As a result of the 2015 Ventre/Eichler report released at that time, I also released a report to respond to them. You can find that report at this link.

https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2015/12/04/kecksburg-ufo-witness-says-object-was-not-ge-mark-2-reentry-vehicle-2/  Sadly, the witness (James Romansky) mentioned in my response has passed away.

Also in 2015, I debated John Ventre live on an episode of PODCAST UFO with Martin Willis about the Kecksburg UFO incident. You can listen to that debate at this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8wEHx2SYz0

I will briefly respond to some of the comments and summaries pertaining to the case that Ventre and Eichler mentioned in their updated report.

They discussed a sulphur smell around the impact site after the object fell.

My Response:  Yes, there were some local residents that I interviewed who did tell me of such an odd smell. The authors mentioned in their report that the unusual odor was likely related to the technology of certain space launches from that time period.  There is, however, a long history of a sulphur smell sometimes related to other UFO cases.

You shouldn’t depend on the memories of witnesses who saw symbols on the Kecksburg object so many years ago to validate your case. The few people I talked with who saw the symbols so many years ago only had the memory of looking at them but were unable to recall specific details that they could be sure of as to what they really looked like. Those witnesses who could see the symbols on the object were observing from various distances and many saw them under poor lighting conditions.

Jim Romansky, was only a few feet away from the object. He was a young volunteer firefighter looking for a possible downed aircraft. What he and a small group of other firefighters came across that evening was much more unusual. They were focusing on the odd construction of the object, and not the symbols. They were at the site just a brief time before the military arrived and then the firemen were ordered out of the area. Jim was uncertain about some details concerning what the symbols looked like or their arrangement on the object. He had later wished that he had spent more time looking at them.

Summary of evidence from the Ventre and Eichler report.

“It glowed green upon descent due to a copper alloy heat shield. This explains the green fire balls seen over New Mexico in the 50’s since they were testing this satellite.”

My response: A witness near Norvelt only a short distance from the impact site, did report seeing green flames as the object descended. However, various colors of flames were reported accompanying the object along its path and before it fell in the Kecksburg area by various witnesses.

For example, another witness watched the object pass near Marguerite and move towards Norvelt, only a short distance between locations. That object was moving at a rather slow speed similar to a piper cub aircraft  on approach to an airport. The object that appeared to be descending looked red hot in the front with flames appearing around its sides and the rear. The flames were orange in color at the outer edges, and white in the middle of the flames.

“The only notarized sketch matches the satellite.”

My response: There are other sketches made by witnesses that the authors are unaware of. This is the sketch of the object drawn by a witness who observed it passed low overhead moments before impact.

(Stan Gordon Files)

This is an updated sculpt depiction of the seamless Kecksburg acorn shaped UFO created by Ron Lanham of Wild & Weird West Virginia www.wildandweirdwv.com

There is one physical detail of the Kecksburg object that is not widely known, that was reported by some witnesses who had a close view of the object. They reported seeing a protuberance extending out from the front of the object. That was possibly a hatch. See the drawing above the sculpt. That detail does not seem to be apparent on the GE MK2 device. Nor is the seamless construction of the Kecksburg object similar to the GE MK2 device.

“It looked like a 4-pointed star upon descent because it had 4 control jets.”

My response: The four-pointed star that the authors mention was not observed as it descended from the sky into the woods that afternoon. I conducted an in-person interview with that witness. The four-pointed star-like object, whatever it was, was observed after the primary object had fallen to the ground. Moments after the object fell, a column of smoke rose above the trees and dissipated quickly. That star-like object was above the trees near the smoke. It soon vanished.

Both Ventre and Eichler did some good research on the GE MK2, but I have seen no evidence that it is the explanation for the object that fell near Kecksburg in 1965.

I will be releasing an updated report on the Kecksburg incident on December 9, 2025, the 60^tth anniversary of the case. www.stangordon.info

Another possible UFO/UAP incident reported on the same day. (July 17, 2025.)

Daylight Luminous Orb Approaches Witness and Makes Physical Contact in Pennsylvania

Another possible UFO/UAP incident reported on the same day. (July 17, 2025.)

From: Researcher Stan Gordon  www.stangordon.info

On July 17, 2025, I received a call from a witness who just a brief time earlier had experienced something unusual. He told me he was still shaken by what had taken place. At about 10:20 AM, the man was driving in a rural area of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania about 25miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The weather at the time was sunny and about 79 degrees. Suddenly, a large shadow appeared above his vehicle.

The witness then sees moving straight down the center of the road, the solid shadow of a hundred-foot-long flat football shaped object moving slow and steadily. He heard no sound. He tried to bend down and look out the window to see what was above him, but seconds later the shadow was gone. He travels quickly down the road to get a clear view of the sky and sees nothing.

On July 19^th, my research associate Jim Brown attended the Kecksburg UFO Festival. Jim had a display of some of the high-tech instrumentation he builds to investigate anomalist incidents. At that time, he told me that he had been contacted by a witness in the Pittsburgh area who reported a daylight close encounter with a solid luminous orb while in her yard. That incident also occurred on July 17, 2025, about thirty-five miles north of Pittsburgh. He later obtained more details of this interesting case. Jim’s investigation report will follow below.

A long History of Mystery Orb Encounters

Over the years, I have received information from widespread areas on cases concerning observations of these smaller spherical objects on the ground or just above the ground. I was aware of these cases in the 1960s and have referred to them as mini-UFOs. Today they are being referred to as orbs or balls of light. These objects range in size from a few inches to about a foot or two in diameter. They are often described as the size of golf balls, baseballs, or basketball size.

While often spherical, other configurations have been reported. These objects often are light sources of assorted colors. They sometimes look solid, while in other cases they look transparent or translucent. There have also been some reports of a swirling mass inside of the spheres.

There have been encounters with these objects pacing vehicles and entering them through open windows. There have been other cases of these objects also entering homes through open windows or hovering in front of windows and even tapping on the panes. In more recent years, I have reports of these mystery orbs appearing inside of homes and only a feet away from witnesses. Various physiological effects have been reported in some cases. I have been of the opinion for a long time that this is one of the most important aspects of the UFO/UAP mystery that has been somewhat overlooked.

The following is Jim Brown’s report on this very intriguing case.

www.jimsdestinations.com

Encounter With a Glowing Orb – July 17, 2025

Location: Residential area near Monaca, Pennsylvania

Date: July 17, 2025.

Time: About 2:30 – 3:00 PM. Time was based on her activities and best recollection as she did not check the clock at the time.

Description of Object: The witness describes it as”About the size of a basketball.” There were no details visible, no seams other indication it was a physical device, just a smooth surfaced glowing white sphere. When asked about the edges she said they were well defined against the background, with no signs of a vapor or mist around them. It was white and appeared to be glowing by its own light rather than reflecting the light around it. However, when asked about what she could see in regard to its light, even when it was against her she said she could not see that any light reflected from the object onto her clothing. (Need further clarification as this seems to be contradictory to a self-luminated object.)

Weather / Conditions: Temperature was about 80 degrees and moderate humidity. (No readings at the site, however weather reports showed about 65 % relative humidity from Pittsburgh Airport observations.) She stated it had rained earlier in the day and once the rain stopped, she decided to weed her garden. No one else was present at the time. She has neighbors on both sides of her location. Sky at the time was broken clouds, some sun. The report which follows is based on the witness’ testimony and outlines the events as they occurred.

On July 18, 2025, I received an E-Mail from the witness. She stated she was “Pushed” by a glowing white object while walking to her garden to do some work. She asked if I would be interested in hearing about her experience. I gave her my contact information and also told her to call me back. She left me a call-back number after she received my e-mail reply.

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July 19, 2025 – I returned her call and after introductions, I asked her to relate to me what happened. The following is an edited transcript of the conversation. (More details to follow in the final summary.)

Jim: Can you describe exactly what happened?

Witness: “I was going out to my garden to do a bit of weeding. Rain earlier had softened up the ground which made it easier to pull them out. I was about half-way to the garden when I saw a glowing ball of light about five feet above my sidewalk blocking my way. I stopped and it began moving slowly directly toward me. I was somewhat afraid of it but hey, this is my yard, and I was not about to be intimidated so I stood still and watched as it approached. It stopped about two inches away. Then it moved closer and actually touched me. It started to push, and I began to back up a bit. It was then I fell backwards and landed on my back side. The ball raised up above me, floated there for a couple seconds then vanished. I don’t know if it flew off or just disappeared, either way it suddenly just wasn’t there anymore.

 I assessed my injuries and found the only thing I suffered seemed to be a skinned elbow where it hit the pavement, I looked at where it touched me and saw no evidence of anything , I had heard about these white balls of light on TV so I Googled it and your name came up. I checked it out and that’s when I called you.”

I followed up with a series of questions and was able to draw out additional information about what she encountered and its effects.

Witness: “I didn’t notice anything on its surface, no marks, nothing. It just appeared white all around it. When it touched me, it felt metallic, but not stiff like steel. It almost seemed like it would give a bit as it made contact.” (When asked to compare it to a mylar party balloon, she said, ” No, No, much stiffer.”) ” It also felt cold, like it just came out of a refrigerator cold. Not panful cold, just cold to the touch.”

Witness: ” No sound at all, unless you count my dog was barking from in his kennel. Smells? The only thing I smelled was the flowers from my garden which was nearby. Come to think of it, that smell seemed a bit stronger than usual but not different from what I usually smell from the garden. As for electrical activity, I didn’t get shocked or anything like that. I didn’t notice any static electricity or anything like that either.”

I asked about the push itself. How much force was applied?

Witness: ” I guess it was more like a nudge. I was backing off as it moved with me. I felt like it was trying to get me to move, and I was just going along.”

Jim: In your first e-mail you used the word “Pushed”. Are you saying it pushed you down?

Witness: “Maybe I shouldn’t have said “Pushed”. It was continuing to be in contact, but I don’t think that it was actually forcing me back, rather just moving me along. I fell when I caught my heel on a raised piece of concrete, and I fell backward. That is when I injured my elbow. What I can’t say is how much force it might have applied had I actually resisted being pushed back. I guess we’ll never know that.”

I also inquired about any other effects from her encounter. Specifically, about any emotional effects or feelings of negativity. She responded: ” No, I went back out to the garden today to pick up where I left off. My elbow is a bit sore, but I weeded the flower bed and did what I planned to do yesterday. It has not caused me any emotional distress if that’s what you mean. I mentioned it to a couple family members who were at a loss to explain it. “

This phone interview covered some concerns about confidentiality levels I use and how they could be applied. She decided to place her case at level 2 which allows some information to be released.

I asked her if there was anything else she wanted to relate that we had not yet discussed. She said we had covered everything she could remember about it. I asked why she felt it had stopped her from going out to the garden. Her response was, “I don’t think it wanted me in my garden at this time.”

She could not think of any reason though. I advised her to be alert and if she found anything out there that she couldn’t explain to contact me and we would go from there. I also told her I would be checking back in a couple of days in case she had any concerns.

July 21, 2025, follow-up call. I had mentioned I was interested in seeing the area where the event had happened and she said her son was coming over and he would get pictures from overhead using his drone camera. He did so on Sunday, July 20. He sent the pictures to me, and I examined them for anything that might have contributed to the event. A tree partially blocked the view of the walk, and nearby buildings did not show any obvious causes for light reflections, etc. (Due to the angles and views from the camera I cannot release the pictures since they might be used to identify the exact location of her home as well as neighboring homes.)

I also spoke with one neighbor who was unable to provide any information. He was home at the time of the event but noticed nothing and was unaware anything had happened until he spoke with the witness.

A second follow upcall on July 24 did not reveal any new information. I asked about her elbow injury, and she said her daughter had bandaged it that night and after a couple of days the bandage was removed and aside from a few scratches it was healing well. (Daughter is a nurse). Her garden is doing good, the object did not seem to in any way affect her plants / flowers. Both she and her son have been working the flower beds and have not encountered any residue or other material that could not be explained. She said she would advise me if anything new happens. At this point I am carrying this case as “Unresolved”