2022 Kecksburg (PA) UFO Festival Conference Speaker Lineup
The Kecksburg UFO Festival is scheduled to take place July 22-24, 2022, at the Kecksburg V.F.D. grounds located at the 5128 Water Street, Mount Pleasant, PA 15666.
For updated details: https://kecksburgvfd.com/
The Kecksburg UFO Festival Conference will be held on Sunday, July 24th from 1-4:30 PM, in the EMS building across from the community center. For more information call: 724-423-9540.
The speakers this year:
Stan Gordon-An Update On Recent UFO and Bigfoot Encounters and Other Strange Occurrences In The Pittsburgh Area.
Stan Gordon has been researching UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and other mysterious events in Pennsylvania since 1959. Since then, he has been involved with the investigation of thousands of unusual incidents. He is the primary investigator of the 1965 UFO crash incident that occurred near Kecksburg, PA. Stan has been taking calls on UFO sightings and other strange reports from the public since 1969. He has given illustrated lectures both locally and nationally on the topics of UFOs, Bigfoot, and strange encounters since the late 1960s.
He is the producer of the award winning UFO video documentary, “Kecksburg The Untold Story.” Stan is the author of four books, Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook, Really Mysterious Pennsylvania, Astonishing Encounters: Pennsylvania’s Unknown Creatures, and his latest book, Creepy Cryptids and Strange UFO Encounters of Pennsylvania.
Stan appears frequently on radio and television programs discussing his research on these topics. He has been interviewed for TV and radio programs nationally and internationally and has been seen on the History & Discovery Channel, SyFy Channel, Fox News Channel, Destination America Channel, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous other TV programs.
He was listed in the 2005 FATE Magazine special, The 100 Most Influential People in UFOlogy Today. In more recent years Stan has been featured in several films and documentaries about his research into UFOs and Bigfoot. 2019 will mark 60 years of research for Stan into these mysteries.Stan’s website is: www.stangordon.info.
Eric Altman-“Mysterious Chestnut Ridge.”
Eric Altman is a Cryptozoologist, specializing in researching the Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomenon with a combined 40 years of study and field research. He is a well-respected field investigator, contributing author, founder and Director of the Pennsylvania Cryptozoology Society and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society. Eric was also the host and co-founder of Beyond the Edge Radio, a live weekly radio program covering a variety of paranormal and fringe topics from 1997 to 2019.
Eric has been actively investigating cases, sighting claims and conducting field work dating back to 1997. He has investigated and assisted in investigating over 250 cases of Bigfoot sightings, encounters and claims in Pennsylvania and the surrounding states. Eric was an organizer of the East Coast Bigfoot Conference from 2000 to 2011. Beginning in 2016 he organized and hosted the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Camping Adventure, an annual charity fund raising event which has successfully concluded its third event in 2019.
Eric is a much sought-after public speaker on the topics of Bigfoot and other Cryptids for over 21 years. He has lectured and presented across the country dating back to 2000. Eric has been featured in multiple documentaries, films and television programs about Bigfoot. The most recent documentary film Mountain Devil 3 Travel channel “Paranormal Declassified,” and the Discovery Plus “Fright Club.” He will also be featured in the upcoming 8-episode series “Sasquatch Unearthed; The Ridge.” Eric has written for and contributed to several books and articles on the subject. He has been interviewed on hundreds of national radio programs and appeared as a featured guest on countless internet podcast shows. He has appeared in newspaper, magazine articles and various forms of print media. To learn more about Eric, visit his websites https://www.ericaltman.net. https: www.pabigfoot.com and https: www.pacryptosociety.com
You can find him on social media on Instagram and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/erichowardaltman.
Dave Spinks-West Virginia and Southwest PA and Modern UFOlogy
Dave Spinks, Air-force veteran and retired Federal law enforcement officer has been investigating researching and documenting the paranormal for the last three decades. During his thousands of investigations, he has had death defying situations and hair raising accounts that pushes the boundaries of belief while answering man’s three greatest questions, What happens when we die? Are we alone in the universe? Are there unknown creatures walking among us?
This multifaceted research, documentation, authoring over 7 books, combined with his knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences catapulted Dave to world renown TV & movie fame, highlighting his unapologetically authentic investigating style. His appearances vary from The Flatwoods Monster a legacy of Fear, (Small Town Monsters) several seasons of The UnXplained, Ghost Nation, Terror in the Woods, Expedition X, In Search of Monsters, Paranormal 911, Flatwoods the movie, These Woods are Haunted.
Dave has an extensive history on the lecturing circuit ranging from UFO, Cryptid, & paranormal conferences to speaking in schools to children of all ages. When not filming or speaking at conferences you can find Dave in his store Dave Spinks World of Weird, Richwood, WV
Patty Wilson-Haunted History
Haunted History–Ghost stories often come with historical legends, folk tales and rumors attached, but how do you weed through them to find out what actually happened at an historical site? Historian and author Patty A Wilson will share several cases where history made or broke a story. The author of Haunted Pennsylvania, The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories and over a dozen more non-fiction collections of historical haunts explains just what it takes to bring a ghost story alive and how this will play into any paranormal investigation or documentation. Learn the story of a young man who died in the late 1700’s only to come back and kill his kin. Is this story only folklore or is it true? Learn the truth about the history of one of Pennsylvania’s most haunted taverns–the Jean Bonnet. And hear the story of a haunted tombstone and what the truth behind the story really is.
Author, historian, and paranormal researcher Patty A. Wilson has lived her entire life in Pennsylvania researching, investigating and writing about Pennsylvania’s extensive paranormal history. Ms. Wilson lives near her three sons and their families. She works in the field of psychology and has been investigating the paranormal and documenting it for nearly thirty years. To date, Ms. Wilson has written 28 books including Haunted Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania’s Lost Treasures, The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories and A Ghost Hunter’s Tales.
Ms. Wilson has appeared on Travel Channel’s Mysterious Journeys, Biography Channel’s My Ghost Story and was a consultant for the first episodes of Ghost Hunters. Ms. Wilson hosts a Facebook page on the paranormal entitled The Paranormal Asylum and Ms. Wilson co-hosts The Paranormalist Podcast with Kenny Dodson where each week they discuss the paranormal, interview guests or share paranormal tales. Ms. Wilson lectures on the subject of the paranormal throughout Pennsylvania.