Space: "PITTSBURGH - Researchers and witnesses who believe a UFO landed in the woods of western Pennsylvania 40 years ago are marking another anniversary today: two years since a lawsuit was filed to get NASA to release records of what happened.A National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman says there's no cover-up: The 'UFO' was a Russian satellite but government records documenting it have been lost.Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter backed by the Sci Fi Channel, and a group connected to the cable TV channel sued NASA two years ago under the Freedom of Information Act.Kean wants files on what happened Dec. 9, 1965, in the unincorporated hamlet of Kecksburg, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Witnesses described a fireball in the evening sky, and a metallic, acorn-shaped object about 12 to 15 feet high and 8 to 12 feet in diameter that landed gently in the woods, according to media accounts at the time." |
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