[meteorite-list] I witnessed the Kecksburg bolide

From: Charles Viau <cviau_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:33 2004
Message-ID: <000d01c39891$034a0b90$1800a8c0_at_chupa>

I witnessed the "Kecksburg Bolide" when I was a kid growing up in Ohio.
It was the first real bolide I ever witnessed, and those that I have
seen after that have looked pretty similar. It was known as the
"Tri-State Meteorite" the day after the event, and was seen in actually
4 states (OH,PA,IND and Western NY) and parts of Canada. This is a
report I published a long time ago before there was any real web, it was
on AOL, and then got picked up on web sites after that. I suppose a
re-entry vehicle that had a parachute failure could actually look like
this, but I doubt it was anything more than a giant meteorite. The
strange part of this is that it would have to have been a very high
altitude explosion, to have a pieces fall in different states.

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from: cviau_at_flash.net

Dec. 9, 1965

As a kid, I was pumping gas into a car at a SOHIO gas station, on
Clifton Blvd, Rocky River Ohio. It was in the afternoon, about 4 or 5PM.
All of a sudden everything got bright, like a flashbulb went off. I
remember looking at the bumper of the car that I was pumping the gas
into, and I could see the reflection of this blinding bright light. As i
turned to look up, it had just passed and there was another flash, and I
could see that whatever it was had split into 2 or 3 pieces. The smoke
trail in the sky looked like a pitch-fork, like a handle of luminecent
smoke, then 3 prongs that pointed toward the south. The next day, i
remember reading the Cleveland Plain Dealer article about the "Tri-State
Meteor" observed by hundreds of people. I never knew about the
connection with the Kecksburg incident until reading about it on the
web! Neat, eh?


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[mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Francis
Graham
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:29 PM
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Sci Fi Channel Sues Air Force

Dear List,
 Let me begin by stating: I do not, repeat, do not
think that UFOs are piloted alien spaceships and I do
not think there is much good evidence for that
opinion. In any case, science demands a type specimen
for a new life form and ufology has yet to deliver.
  Having said that, have you guys noticed that sputnik
fragments were collected in the late 1950's and early
1960's on the ground, and after Skylab in 1979, but
there are very few fragments (if any) from in-between
years?
   This is because, I tentatively assert (which is a
way of saying this is wild speculation), the US
government was collecting pieces of Soviet spacecraft
secretly, in violation of the Outer Space Treaty the
US signed(which requires return) for the purpose of
study of Soviet technology.
   Kecksburg is an example. The thing as sketched
looks like some sort of re-entry vehicle. The "alien
writing" might well have been Russian characters. Jim
Oberg was the first to advance this hypothesis
regarding Kecksburg.
    Something was loaded on that flatbed and whisked
away, and it likely was a Soviet satellite. Unless you
believe the official line that it was a meteorite. Any
of you got any Kecksburg for sale?

Francis Graham


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