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retrieval thin 1965–2026 status · contested United States, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

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The Kecksburg replica
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The Kecksburg replica

A later model representing the reported acorn-shaped object. It is not recovered hardware.

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Kevin Knuth · 1:06:53

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Richard Dolan · 1:19:09

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A village in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where witnesses describe an acorn-shaped object recovered by the military on 9 December 1965. A NASA-linked speaker says his relative Donald Hornig, President Johnson's science adviser, appears in a government summary as present at the crash, and names Penn State's Eric Walker as another attendee.

Where the pin is

40.1830, -79.4630 approximate

Village of Kecksburg from public gazetteer; the wooded ravine where the object was reported is within ~2 km.

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States

What is claimed

  • The NASA whistleblower says his father's cousin Donald Hornig, Johnson's chief science adviser, was listed as present in an official government summary of the Kecksburg crash.

    SPECULATION thin Kevin Knuth scientist 2026

    • 1:06:53 NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” · Kevin Knuth ▶
      Donald Hornig was was the chief scientific advisor to President Johnson. Mhm. He was president during the Kecksburg crash and I found I had actually found a document about the Kecksburg UFO and Donald Hornig was

  • He adds that Eric Walker, then president of Penn State and a materials scientist, was supposedly also present at Kecksburg.

    SPECULATION thin Kevin Knuth scientist 2026

    • 1:07:56 NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” · Kevin Knuth ▶
      I think Eric Walker was supposed supposedly present as well at the Kecksburg crash. He was the um I believe president of Penn State and he was kind of a material science guy.

  • Asked by Michels to call each crash case real or hoax, Dolan says Kecksburg is real but doubts the object was the so-called Nazi Bell.

    SPECULATION thin Richard Dolan researcher 2025

    • 1:19:09 The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) · Richard Dolan ▶
      Um Kexburg. Yep. Um, that's a good one. I don't believe it was the bell.

Mentioned in the corpus

Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.

Named in 2 uploads (automatic name matching, 8 mentions)

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Related records

Crafts
Bell / acorn shape
Events
Kecksburg incident
People
Richard DolanKevin Knuth

Sources on this record

  • Kecksburg — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 1:06:53 NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” · Kevin Knuth ▶
    Donald Hornig was was the chief scientific advisor to President Johnson. Mhm. He was president during the Kecksburg crash and I found I had actually found a document about the Kecksburg UFO and Donald Hornig was
  • 1:07:56 NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” · Kevin Knuth ▶
    I think Eric Walker was supposed supposedly present as well at the Kecksburg crash. He was the um I believe president of Penn State and he was kind of a material science guy.