What do you think about this?
On the evening of December 9, 1965, a fireball streaked across the sky over at least six states and into Canada. Most who saw it assumed it was a meteor. But near the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, people said something came down slow, almost as if it were guided, and settled into the woods.
The locals who reached the site told a stranger story. They described an object about the size of a small car, shaped like a giant acorn, with a band of markings around its base that looked almost like writing. Before crowds could gather, they said, the military arrived, sealed off the woods, and hauled the thing away on the back of a flatbed truck. Then the official word came down. There was nothing there. Just a meteor.
For decades the Air Force and NASA gave shifting answers. In 2005 NASA finally said its experts had examined fragments and judged them pieces of a re entering Soviet satellite, then added that the actual records had been lost back in the 1980s.
What if whatever fell at Kecksburg was exactly what those witnesses described, something built rather than born, recovered quietly and explained away before anyone outside could take a closer look?
A burning meteor, a fallen Soviet satellite, or a craft carried off in the dark? What do you think the military drove out of those woods?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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