Strange Tides: Short Board Session – The Kecksburg UFO

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first episode in our new episode style - the Shortboard Sessions. In this quick-hit episode, we skim across the basics of the 1965 Kecksburg case—an eerie fireball streaking over the Midwest, a mysterious acorn-shaped object in the woods, and a military response that locals still call a cover-up.

We lay out the classic theories: stray Soviet or U.S. Cold War hardware, a misidentified meteor, or something far stranger that never made it into any official report. And we look at how Kecksburg transformed from a one-night anomaly into a full-blown legend, complete with TV reenactments, documentaries, and a festival that keeps the mystery alive.

Short, sharp, and packed with the weird essentials—grab your board and let’s carve through Pennsylvania’s most enduring cosmic whodunit.

SOURCES/LINKS:

https://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/News_Items-3.html

https://www.setiusa.us/archive/index.php/t-6134.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO_incident

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03968

https://unsolved.com/gallery/kecksburg-ufo/

https://www.infinityexplorers.com/kecksburg-ufo-crash-1965/

https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kecksburg65.htm

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- Gordon, Stan. (1998). *Kecksburg: The Untold Story* [Documentary].

- Kean, Leslie. (2009). "The Conclusion of the NASA Lawsuit." Coalition for Freedom of Information.

- Randle, Kevin. (2002). *A History of UFO Crashes*. Avon Books