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SCI FI Seeks Kecksburg Truth

SCI FI channel wire, October 21, 2003

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Summary: Investigative journalist Leslie Kean, who is involved in a SCI FI Channel-sponsored Freedom of Information initiative to obtain classified documents relating to UFO phenomena, told SCI FI Wire that a high-level official at NASA has eliminated the possibility that it was a Russian satellite that fell over Kecksburg, Pa., on Dec. 9, 1965, the site of a possible UFO landing.

Investigative journalist Leslie Kean, who is involved in a SCI FI Channel-sponsored Freedom of Information initiative to obtain classified documents relating to UFO phenomena, told SCI FI Wire that a high-level official at NASA has eliminated the possibility that it was a Russian satellite that fell over Kecksburg, Pa., on Dec. 9, 1965, the site of a possible UFO landing. The SCI FI Channel and the Coalition for Freedom of Information are supporting legal action based on the research of Kean and others to compel various government agencies to reveal documents relating to the Kecksburg incident.

"A lot of people have said that the object might have been this Russian probe called Cosmos 96, which is known to have come down over Canada early in the morning of the day that the Kecksburg incident took place," Kean said in an interview. "I was able to eliminate that possibility by talking to the chief scientist for orbital debris at the NASA Johnson Space Center. His name is Nicholas Johnson, and he's one of the leading experts in the world on orbital debris and on the Russian space system."

Kean said that Johnson told him there was "no way that any debris from Cosmos 96 could have landed in Pennsylvania" and that "no other man-made object from any country came down that day." According to Kean, the new evidence leaves fewer explanations for the fireball seen in the sky by a number of eyewitnesses. "That's really interesting because in terms of what it was. By the process of elimination, we're narrowing down the possibilities."

Kean added, "We sent a letter to NASA giving them a deadline. ... If [we] do not get a response [by then], we will file a lawsuit. And that's how the first step is being taken. So we'll see if we get a response from them or not. But that's just the beginning. Our first lawsuit is focused on NASA, but we expect that because of the lack of response that we've gotten from all the agencies, we have every intention that it's going to get to that point with all of them."

The SCI FI Channel will premiere a new documentary on the Kecksburg incident hosted by Bryant Gumbel, The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed, on Oct. 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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