Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 27, 2007 20:50:04 GMT -5
NASA to Search Files on UFO Incident
Posted: 2007-10-27 09:38:21
Filed Under: Nation News, Science News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 27) - NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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While descending an Austrian mountain in 1954, photographer Erich Kaiser captured an image of what he called mysterious silvery-white flying objects.
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An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964.
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Comet Hale-Bopp passes over Kansas in 1997. Hundreds of people watching the comet in Phoenix reported seeing an array of lights and an enormous delta-shaped craft.
President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1980, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted several space missions in the 1960s, once described a UFO he saw as "this typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic."
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Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.
The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.
"They could not find anything," one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.
UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.
"This is about the public's right to know," Kean said. "We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It's a freeodm of information issue."
The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with.
In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search.
Kean said Friday that she sued NASA rather than the Army because the space agency a decade ago released some relevant documents on the case.
2007-10-27 08:21:59
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Posted: 2007-10-27 09:38:21
Filed Under: Nation News, Science News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 27) - NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/0b/06/20070707143209990028
While descending an Austrian mountain in 1954, photographer Erich Kaiser captured an image of what he called mysterious silvery-white flying objects.
www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/06/07/20071027120809990059
An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964.
www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/01/06/20070707143509990007
Comet Hale-Bopp passes over Kansas in 1997. Hundreds of people watching the comet in Phoenix reported seeing an array of lights and an enormous delta-shaped craft.
President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1980, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted several space missions in the 1960s, once described a UFO he saw as "this typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic."
aol surveys
Have you ever seen an unidentified flying object?
No 67%
Yes 33%
Total Votes: 224,125
Do you believe intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe?
Yes 87%
No 13%
Total Votes: 234,076
Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.
The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.
"They could not find anything," one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.
UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.
"This is about the public's right to know," Kean said. "We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It's a freeodm of information issue."
The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with.
In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search.
Kean said Friday that she sued NASA rather than the Army because the space agency a decade ago released some relevant documents on the case.
2007-10-27 08:21:59
news.aol.com/story/_a/nasa-to-search-files-on-ufo-incident/20071027082109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001