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It was in Warren's street that got across the horizon.

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In 1965, witnesses reported seeing a UFO crash in the woods outside of a small Pennsylvania

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town.

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It was right here.

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Insighting one of the largest UFO cover-ups in history.

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It makes you wonder if we can trust anything.

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I was there.

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What did the military find in those years?

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What did the military find in those woods?

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There was something inside of that thing.

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The time has come to uncover the truth behind the Kecksburg UFO case.

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I'm Ben Hansen, a former federal agent.

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My grandfather worked at a highly classified Air Force base and convinced me we are not

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alone in the universe.

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Then I had my own encounter that changed my life forever.

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Welcome to UFO Country.

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Now I've gained access to a top secret archive from Project Blue Look.

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His plan has been under surveillance for centuries.

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Containing reports of over 10,000 UFO sightings investigated by the U.S. government.

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We could very well be standing on the exact place where a UFO crashed.

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My mission is to uncover the truth.

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I'm in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, southwestern part of the state.

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This is the site of the 1965 alleged UFO crash.

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Very strange occurrence in the small community.

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The world has been fascinated by reports of UFO crashes since the infamous Roswell incident of 1947.

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But a lesser known UFO crash has haunted the little town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania since 1965.

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In this tiny town, locals claim they saw a fireball tear across the sky and crash into a wooded hollow a few miles away.

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At the crash site, witnesses saw a large metallic acorn-shaped object bathed in colorful lights.

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The military later claimed it was simply a meteor.

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But those who saw it maintained it was a craft from another world.

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Kecksburg was never the same.

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It's heavily wooded.

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There's very few houses around.

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I can imagine something happening in the middle of the night.

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The whole town's going to know about it if you see smoke and you're going to go find out what it was.

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The fire station I hear has kind of become the hub of Kecksburg.

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There's not really a downtown.

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Here's a fire station.

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And here is their monument to the craft they claim crashed here, the giant acorn.

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Let's take a look at this.

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Kecksburg UFO, December 9th, 1965.

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I think this is the same size as much as they could make a replica of what they believed it was.

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I can see here there's like strange inscriptions and writings on the side of it.

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That was reported by some of the witnesses.

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This probably hasn't changed much since the 60s.

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You can tell just by the age of the homes and things here in the woods,

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it's very possible that the woods looked almost exactly the same in 1965.

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It's like the whole town has been frozen in time since the day of the incident.

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But recently there have been new UFO sightings that are eerily similar to 1965.

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And Ben is meeting with the man who has been investigating those sightings.

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Hey, Ben, how you doing?

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Roger, welcome to UFO country.

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So the southwestern part of Pennsylvania is truly a hotspot, huh?

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Yes, it's just rampant in this area.

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They appear to be observing us.

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And they've been coming for decades.

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It's never let up.

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And the people that are reporting are very, very scared.

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We have a very good witness who saw something here.

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I'd love to hear what he has to say because...

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An incredible story.

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Andrew Frick claims to have seen a UFO that matches the description of the 1965 Acorn

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just seven miles from where the Kecksburg UFO allegedly crashed 55 years ago.

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Could the two UFOs be connected?

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So, Andrew, Roger tells me you had a pretty intense experience.

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Can you walk me through what happened that day?

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I came over to hang out with my friends.

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We were here gaming.

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All of a sudden the TV starts freeze-framing.

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And the picture started to get in the desert.

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And eventually we just shut the whole thing down.

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We go outside and it's so clear out.

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I pulled out my phone because I wanted to try and get a picture.

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And as I pulled my phone out and I'm panning the sky looking for a good area,

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I see this object in the sky.

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It was perfectly still.

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It hovered in place?

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We were staring at it for about 40 seconds and I remember these lights appeared on it.

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And all of a sudden it meandered for about 10 seconds.

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Like a blink of an eye.

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So how did this end?

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You know, we go back inside and of course the connection and the TV are fine.

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It was just the craziest thing because I've never seen anything like that in the sky.

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Especially for it to not make a noise.

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Did you try filming it?

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Well I snapped a picture but it was just black.

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Pretty intense. It happened right here.

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What do you think it was? Do you think it was from here?

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After seeing it, I remember thinking to myself, did that happen?

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It's definitely, definitely something from out of this world.

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Andrew's testimony is amazing.

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This acorn-shaped craft silently hovered over them.

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Disrupted their electronics, gave off a red glow and disappeared in a fraction of a second.

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Could this UFO be linked to the Kecksburg crash of 1965?

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Ben is headed to meet with a local reporter who has been documenting UFO sightings and testimony for over 50 years.

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Hi Stan.

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It's nice to finally meet you.

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Nice to meet you too.

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So could you kind of just take me back to that evening?

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As there was news breaking on the radio and TV station around Pittsburgh that this brilliant fireball had been observed,

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whatever the object was, it fell into a water ravine near Kecksburg here in Mount Pleasant Township.

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The witnesses who saw the object locally said it did not come down at a high rate of speed like you would have,

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for example, with a re-entry of space debris or meteor, but it came down almost like it made a controlled landing.

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One of the witnesses who was a volunteer fireman, he had been called out to search for a possible downed aircraft.

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So he and his few guys hurried over and there was a little embankment there.

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And that's when they come across this large metallic, acorn shaped object semi-buried in the ground.

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And one of the witnesses was actually tuning up a seabed radio.

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And there was actually some talk, some chatter on there from people who had seen this thing coming across the sky.

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And as he's looking up from the dash, he sees this brilliant fiery object moving across the sky from Norbell.

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Across the sky, I've never known a meteor where I could get that communication and go out and look in the sky and it'd still be there.

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I mean, meteors come down like this, you know, within a second or two and they pass over you, they're gone.

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So it amazes me that if this was a meteor, he's hearing this and has time enough to get out, look up from his car and still see this thing and then see it change direction.

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He said this was big enough for a man to stand on the side of, approximately 10 to 12 feet in length, about 8 to 10 feet in diameter.

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But on the back of the object, like the back of the acorn, there are raised up markings that look more like symbols than writing.

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According to eyewitnesses, the symbols were not from any recognizable human language.

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So as they're down there, two men came down through the woods and right behind them are soldiers.

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Looked at the object, looked at them and said, this area is now quarantined. You need to leave here immediately.

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Wow. So what happens after the military pushes everybody out of there?

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Some of the witnesses back then were young kids or teenagers. Some of these teenagers apparently found their way through some of the roadblocks.

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And one of the witnesses saw something interesting too.

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What did witnesses see in the woods that night?

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And I can see his voice begin to tremble and he said, I swear to God, sir, there was something inside of that thing.

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And he goes on to tell me how a military officer jumped on top of the object.

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And he struck the object.

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And he said, moments later, this hatch opens from front of the object.

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He said, as a matter of seconds, I can hear metal on metal hitting and then it closes.

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And then the officer is screaming and yelling, hurry up, hurry up, we don't have much time.

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And that's when they lift it onto the flatbed truck and get it out of there.

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Stan details countless eyewitness reports to Ben.

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A lot of these people said, I was wearing their oath about what we saw.

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Nothing supports the government's claims that a meteor crashed here that night, leading Ben to believe the truth has been covered up.

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In hopes of discovering what really happened at Kecksburg, Ben contacts Jenny Ziedman,

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the last remaining member of the top secret government program, Project Blue Book.

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Starting in 1952, Blue Book investigated thousands of UFO encounters.

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And Jenny kept files on all of them, including one on the 1965 Kecksburg incident.

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It's so nice to see you again, Jenny.

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How did you?

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I just met with Stan Gordon, who interviewed hundreds of witnesses.

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They claim a UFO crashed in the woods and military personnel carried something away.

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Yeah, we had a lot of really good stuff to share with you.

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Oh, I can't wait.

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Joining Jenny and Ben on the investigation is UFO historian Mark O'Connell.

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People just flocked to this alleged crash site.

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Is this the Blue Book file?

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December 9th, 1965.

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Conclusion, meteor.

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So this is one of the news reports.

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Officials state that a meteorite was probably the cause of it all,

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but the object was traveling much too slow from meteorite.

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There is also evidence that it changed course in flight.

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You've got witnesses who say that this slowed down and then changed direction.

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The idea that this object was a meteor.

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That's about as ludicrous as I've heard.

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Jenny, what's your overall opinion?

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Do you think it's possible the government covered up a UFO crash in Kecksburg?

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So why do you think that the government seems to still be hiding these close calls that we've had with UFOs?

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Because that shows our weakness that we can't control or anticipate.

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That is going to mean that we're the victims.

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Do you think we should prepare for the worst then?

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What can we do?

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They're so far ahead of us, psychologically.

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I'll fly really off the handle and say we're doomed.

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But Jenny has a lead on the truth behind the Kecksburg incident.

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In 1965, Project Blue Book interviewed eyewitness Ron Strubel when he was 22 years old.

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It was an orange street that got across the horizon.

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It disappeared over the mountains.

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And after 55 years, Strubel has agreed to meet with Ben and lead him to the crash site.

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If one of these objects crashed, there would be debris on site.

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Alright guys, well thank you so much for your help and we're relatively close to Pennsylvania.

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So I'm going to head out that way and start looking into some of these possible witnesses that are still around.

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And I'd like to go out to the site myself.

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So thank you.

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We thank you.

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Jenny Seidman confirmed it was no meteor that crashed outside Kecksburg in 1965.

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To help Ben expose the government cover-up, she connects him with two eyewitnesses who claim they saw a UFO in the woods that night.

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Hi.

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Nice to meet you.

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Nice to be Ron and Bill.

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Man of the hour.

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Nice to meet you, Ben.

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Nice to meet you.

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Ron was 22 years old when he was interviewed by investigators from Project Blue Book.

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There was smoke going across the horizon and in the old dead crash in Kecksburg area.

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Bill Weaver was 19 at the time.

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After hearing reports of the crash on the radio, he rushed out to the site where he saw an eerie blue light emanating from the woods.

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Thank you so much for meeting me here.

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I've heard a lot about how you can fill in the blanks of what happened this night.

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By the time I got out to Kecksburg, the military was already here.

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They had the roads blocked and everybody thought there was an airplane or something that crashed in the area.

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We could just look down in the hall and see, you know, guys running back and forth towards the site.

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Where were you and how did it all start for you?

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I was just out cruising.

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There's people standing alongside the road.

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I looked down in there and I could see where something had just plowed into the ground.

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And there was a light emulating off of that object.

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The military is all over the place. State police is all over the place.

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At this point too, there's a big truck pulls in.

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There's four guys get out of this truck with a box.

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But they were wearing moon suits.

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And they carried that thing down in to the woods to that object.

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And the men in the dark suits seemed to have the power over everybody.

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Now my father was a foreman on state highways and he was always out checking the roads.

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And he watched them haul that thing out of here.

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But he said it was covered with a tarp.

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A trailer truck with a tarp over it?

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If they weren't expecting or had a plan for this sort of thing, how does a box truck show up with four military guys in a crate?

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How does that make you feel, regardless of what this was, that the official story is we didn't recover anything?

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For years we've been told that the military wasn't there. Well that's a falsity. Whatever branch they were, they were there.

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How many people in dark suits would you say they were?

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Maybe a half a dozen, if I can remember right.

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No military uniform or insignia?

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No, it's shirt and tie and suit and coat.

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And they would show up and start directing?

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With the state police and the military. That's the way I seen it.

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So this object is the size of you say of a Volkswagen Beetle?

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Yes, the old bugs we call them.

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Now why was not everybody else back in there? Like you said they were out kind of on the main road, why weren't they back in there with you?

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I don't know, there was only a few out. There was more out on the main road as I remember as than there were in toward you object.

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Well I since learned they stopped people on the top of Sunset Lane, which is now Sunset Lane, where this happened from going down in.

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They wouldn't let anybody else down in and he, at that time, you know they had the authority to keep everybody back from going down in.

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Would you tell people who believe that official story and they say no, no, no, the reports that came out and everything says military were in there.

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So you guys are in essence lying. What do you tell those people?

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Somebody's not going to tell me that it didn't happen because I was there.

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It landed in our little town, okay, so something happened.

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What you haven't really told me is what you think it is.

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I don't know if it's something out of this world or not. It makes me wonder. There could be something alien.

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Witnesses Ron Struble and Bill Weaver believe the government has been hiding the truth.

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Our government knows. They won't tell us. Give us those reports. Nothing blacked out on them. Tell us what that was.

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That's what all of us want, but I don't know that that's ever going to happen.

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Well then it's time to hunt for proof ourselves. Ron, Jenny Zeidman says that you know where the UFO crashed.

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If one of these objects crashed, there would be debris on site.

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I would love to go to the crash site. Do you remember how to get to that location?

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Yes. Let's do it.

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Ron and Bill's description of the events of December 9th, 1965 leave little doubt as to what happened in the woods that fateful night.

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Now Ben will attempt to recover physical evidence from the crash site and validate their claims.

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If we can pinpoint the exact location where this happened, I plan on doing a basic field survey.

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So metal detecting, Geiger counters, looking for any effect this object may have had on the vegetation. Anything that looks out of place.

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And it's really not implausible that we would find that after all these years.

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So Stan Gordon, the local researcher, told me that the fireball came from this direction, comes over the town basically, comes to this point and takes a very drastic turn in the other direction before it settles into the ravine.

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Most of the witnesses watched the recovery effort from this position. I'm excited to get down in there.

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Ron Struble will lead Ben down to the crash site.

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Ron, do you want to lead me down here? I imagine it would be quite a recovery effort. Yeah, it's getting pretty thick in here.

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You see that clearing down there? That's where we're going.

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Okay.

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We are right in the location, right here.

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It was in here. In here? Yeah. Like right where I'm standing.

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It's almost just like I pictured it. You know, I had in my mind that night what was going on.

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I pictured military men with searchlights and a big excavation and maybe a little bit of fear as they're trying to hurry and scoop this thing up and take it out.

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We could very well be standing on the exact place where a UFO crashed in 1965.

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What I'm really interested in is some of these tree tops that seem to be kind of sheared off at the top similar to what the witnesses described happen that some of the trees were cut off in the middle of the day.

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And from the air, one can almost make out an actual crash site.

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So what I'm thinking is I'm going to do a baseline EMF reading and then I'd like to start with a sweep.

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And then I'm going to start with a sweep.

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I'm going to start with a sweep.

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I'm going to start with a sweep.

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I'm going to start with a sweep.

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I'm going to start with an actual crash site.

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So what I'm thinking is I'm going to do a baseline EMF reading and then I'd like to start with a sweep of the general area using the metal detector.

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We've also got ground penetrating radar.

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Charles should be here in a minute and he's got a kind of an all terrain ground penetrating radar that we can go over the area and look for anything.

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Can you explain to me exactly how this works and what we're going to be doing?

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We're going to go over the area, the midget signal down into the ground, pops back up on the screen.

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You can go from six inches to sixty, seventy feet.

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Okay.

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Vince?

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I think I got something.

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What do you got?

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Right under this flag here.

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Okay.

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I found this.

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It's denser than anything else that's in here.

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It's a lot brighter.

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Whoa!

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Alright, so now the real work begins.

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Charles has found something.

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So we need to grab our shovel and see if we can get down to where this is.

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Okay.

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Now I'm more curious than ever.

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Imagine what we could find in here.

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If they did excavatings, they pulled this wreckage out.

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If they left some trunk that got overlooked, break this case wide open.

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Let's see.

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Come on.

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Ah!

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Pepsi!

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This kind of gives you an idea how old this trash is.

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This little Pepsi can with the tab you pull back.

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The markings on the trees and the damage to the tops.

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Not to mention what appears to be the scars of an old crash site.

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Could suggest that a huge object entered from the direction described by the eyewitnesses.

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What came out of the forest that night in Kecksburg and where did it go?

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While Ben found no conclusive evidence of a UFO at the site, the signs of a crash are still evident to this day.

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So to continue his investigation, he heads to the Center for UFO Studies.

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I have a number of documents here to go through and review, including the Blue Book files.

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Hopefully, some of this is going to shed some light on Kecksburg.

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The Center for UFO Studies, or Cufos, is a collective of ufologists who share their findings on the world's UFO sightings.

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Their facility contains all of Jenny Ziedman's and J. Allen Hineck's Blue Book files, as well as countless other exhaustively documented encounters.

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If there is any proof of a government-backed cover-up at Kecksburg, it's within these walls.

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The official story on this case is quite different than what the witnesses claim.

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The witnesses swear that it wasn't a meteor that landed.

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They know for certain after 55 years, they saw things being removed by the Air Force.

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But where? Where does it go?

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Finally, he uncovers a significant lead. A response from NASA to a 2003 Freedom of Information request for all federal documents related to the Kecksburg UFO incident.

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What's going on, Ben?

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This is like a deep rabbit hole because there's been multiple requests made over the years.

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But if I'm following this correctly, this is pretty big news.

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Okay, so Leslie Keen, she is a well-known UFO researcher and she kind of spearheaded this.

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It looks like in 2003 she made her main foyer request.

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The Freedom of Information Act requires the release of previously confidential files when requested by members of the public.

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She specifically asked for two boxes that belong to the Fragology files.

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Now, Fragology is like the study of fragments, space fragments, right?

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Supposedly NASA had collected some metal materials related to Kecksburg, yet they said,

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Our records indicate that the boxes were identified as missing in 1987 and have not been located since that day.

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Things just kind of disappeared.

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According to the report, NASA claimed to have lost or destroyed all evidence related to the Kecksburg case,

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including a box that contained metal fragments recovered from the crash site.

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Two boxes of material that NASA supposedly had of the debris are missing since 1987 and they have no idea where they are.

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What were these metal fragments found at the site and why was the box supposedly lost or destroyed?

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This MO unfortunately has played out so many times when there's something so big it seems like the government just does not want to talk about.

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And it makes you wonder if we can trust anything when it comes to the official narrative.

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The files also reveal the name of an eyewitness who lived across the street from the crash site in 1965,

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then has located him and set up a meeting.

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Hi, you must be John.

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Yep.

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Ben.

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Pleasure to meet you.

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So you kind of had a front row seat to the whole event.

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Yeah, sure did.

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So how old were you at the time?

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I was 10 years old.

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Can you tell me what happened with you that night? Where were you and how did it all start for you?

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Well, we was actually outside the yard playing football and we walked in the house and mom and dad was talking about something crashing.

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Mom walked over to the window. She was looking out the road across the hill.

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And then got knocked on the door.

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And then there were some guys that came in and they looked like black suits.

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And they wanted the kids to go to bed so we wouldn't hear what was going on.

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They used our house phone.

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And then what's not my bedroom went up.

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What he saw in the hours that followed are forever etched in his mind.

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He went down in empty. They come out with something on the back of it.

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And then there was a guy that was coming through.

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He was carrying this box and it was in like white moon suits like home.

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Could this be the box that contained the metal fragments that were supposedly lost or destroyed by the government?

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I've never seen those guys after that.

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They knew what they was coming in to do and they got it done and got out of there.

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I can see people walking down across the field.

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But every day they took out of there they didn't want people to know about it.

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So did you ask your dad you said he didn't really talk about this at all?

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My dad would not talk about it. In fact a lot of people around there none of them would talk about it.

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Still John's family was curious enough to dig a little deeper.

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We went and got records for our house phone.

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We did.

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We just want to see who they was calling.

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We thought maybe he would tell us where this thing went and who was dealing with things or what it could have been.

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And none of these calls ever shared up on the phone.

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Are you serious?

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Yes. The only calls that was on there is the ones that we made.

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Could that box have contained metal fragments from the UFO or something even more extraordinary?

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The remains of its extraterrestrial pilot.

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According to researcher Stan Gordon, eyewitnesses alluded to the possibility of an alien inside the box.

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And I can see his voice begin to tremble when he said I swear to God sir there was something inside of that thing.

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If the military did indeed carry away UFO and its extraterrestrial pilot, this could very well be one of the greatest cover-ups in history.

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I have one more expert to interview who may have insider information.

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Tom Carey is a veteran of the Air Force where he held a high level of top secret clearance.

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After retiring from the military, he worked with Jenny Zeidman, directly under Jay Allen Heineck, who investigated UFO sightings all across America.

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When it comes to UFOs, Tom is one of the world's leading experts.

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So Tom, it's good to see you again.

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I've been researching the Kecksburg case and after talking to all these witnesses and being out there at the site, I have a lot of questions.

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I hope you can kind of fill in the blanks for me.

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I'll try.

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With Kecksburg, why would the military after all these years try to keep something like this under wraps?

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And how are they able to react so quickly to retrieve the UFO?

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The die was cast back in 1947 because of Roswell.

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In that famous case, a craft was uncovered outside a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico and immediately covered up by the military.

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It came into possession of a downed, nuts and bolts craft from somewhere else.

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And they chose to keep it secret.

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Unfortunately, such secrets get away to their own.

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Air Force will say that Roswell was a balloon and that the bodies were these thymestormaticans that people saw from these high parachute drops.

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However, in Kecksburg, it seems like they had a very organized response.

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The military shows up and then within hours, the thing is loaded up to the trailer and taken off.

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Yes, this is almost 20 years after Roswell.

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So they had this procedure very well honed by the time of the Kecksburg.

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And what is it? Practice makes perfect.

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Both UFO crashes wreak of a government cover up, but they share something else in common.

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Now, I know this is just a general impression based on witnesses who got a brief look at this thing up close.

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Does that ring a bell to you any other craft that had sort of this hieroglyphics?

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The only craft I can think of that had symbology was the Roswell depictions.

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Do you have any drawings of what the Roswell inscriptions look like?

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Yes.

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Look at this one here.

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Here especially, yes.

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So what would that mean?

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You have two different events originating from the same culture.

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The next question would be, okay, where is that?

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In this case, it would be off the planet.

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Ben has one final question. What was in that box?

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Then they go into the woods with a small crate to take out something from the UFO.

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If the box was smaller than the craft, that would be perhaps biological remains.

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Perhaps the pilot.

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Here's my take on this whole thing, Tom, and you provide me a lot of great information.

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When it comes to Kecksburg, the same with Roswell.

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If our government is coming clean on anything, supposedly, and they say, okay, this, we lied to you.

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It wasn't a meteor. We did recover something. We're not interested in a meteor.

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We put some type of a craft on that flatbed trailer. We took it up to Wright Pat.

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Now, Cold War is over. We've come forward with a lot of the secrets from back then.

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The space race is over. So anything that NASA was working on.

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Why not now finally come forward if it was one of ours or the Russians and say, look, here's an interesting piece to put in the museum.

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Here's the Kecksburg Acorn. This is what you guys saw.

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We get that question all the time. And the answer is once you have a cover-up going, it's hard to stop it.

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Because whoever stops it will pay a price. Somebody, especially politically, is going to pay a price and no one is willing to do that.

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I believe that back in 1947, perhaps we weren't ready for people from another planet.

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Oh, that's too much for me to handle. But right now, you know, with all of the cases that have been reported,

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most people accept that there's other life in the universe. Statistically speaking, it's a no-brainer.

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There is absolutely other life in the universe.

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Do you think we could be ready?

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Oh, we are ready, but it's a question, are the secret keepers ready? And I don't think they are, if ever.

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Because they will have to admit, someone will have to admit that your government's been lying to you for 70-plus years.

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And so what you're saying is, if this was just a recovered Russian satellite at Kecksburg, they would have probably come clean by now, but it's not that.

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It's something else from another world, and it's part of the big, more...right?

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But I feel like there's something more here with Kecksburg. There's something like we don't want to give the information, because it's part of the bigger story that we're not all...

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It's part of the ultimate secret. It's a part of the ultimate secret. And coming clean would just...it would not end the questions.

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We only start questions, other questions. What else are you lying to us about?

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That's why they...I will tell you, Ben, they will never come clean on UFOs, ever.

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Right after meeting with Tom Carey, I received a package at my hotel from Stan Gordon.

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He said he uncovered something explosive I need to hear.

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What's in the envelope?

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So, when I was busy trying to find out where this Kecksburg UFO was taken, Stan Gordon was also busy at work, and he turned up a reported statement from a truck driver who says he knows where the craft was taken.

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So, let's give this a listen.

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The man on this tape delivered a shipment of bricks to Wright Patterson Air Force Base and saw something he wasn't meant to see.

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They took it from the backside of the Wright Patterson Air Base all the way through the main part of the base, out the other side.

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The spaceship was like a large egg coin, about 14 feet to the top and about 10 to 12 feet wide.

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It had writing on the collar.

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The anonymous truck driver watched numerous agents load the craft into a large hangar, but that wasn't the only thing he saw.

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I also seen an object laying on the workbench over there, and it had dark green or brownish skin.

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Wow! We have a witness who places that UFO from Kecksburg coming through the back gate at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

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This witness's statement is very key to the whole Kecksburg story.

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The description of the object is very similar to what the witnesses said.

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It's acorn shaped, it has strings riding around the bottom part of it.

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The Air Force picked up this craft, they take it to Wright Patterson, and then he said he sees the body.

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People described seeing a large box that was brought into the woods.

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And they carried that thing down in to that object.

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It's believed that possibly a body was recovered.

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Whenever they took out of there, they didn't want people to know about it.

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But what happened after that remains to be seen.

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The truck drivers recorded a count confirmed that the Air Force recovered both a UFO and an alien body and took them to Wright Patterson.

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But now the question is, why?

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I have no doubt that what happened at Kecksburg is still a matter of national security.

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After all these decades, if it was just a meteor, if it was just a downed satellite, we would have come out and talked about it now, but we haven't.

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So now the next part of my mission is to investigate Wright Patterson.

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If the truth is out there, I'm going to find it.