Cryptids and UFOs in Pennsylvania

Creatures reported in Pennsylvania

UFO crashesaka Crashed saucer, RoswellStories of objects falling from the sky and being quietly taken away.

Famous cases

1. 1965Kecksburg fireball
   UFO crashes · Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

UFO files

• 324 US Air Force Project Blue Book files from Pennsylvania, 1947 to 1969
• 13 FAA pilot reports of lights and objects over Pennsylvania, 2007 to 2024
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Encounters and mysteries

• The Kecksburg incidentKecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA, 1965A fireball seen over six states was said to have come down in woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania; no beings were reported.

From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Pennsylvania papers before 1927.

1. 1884An eagle caught in a fox trap
   Stockport
2. 1892A schooner captain's Lake Erie serpent
   Erie
3. 1897A girl saves her cousin from an eagle
   Germania
4. 1907The Delaware County 'gorilla'
   Darby
5. 1907An 'enormous ape' on the Laurel Run road
   Laurel Run
6. 1909A museum man admits the publicity stunt
   Philadelphia
7. 1921A shot 'gorilla' gets up and chases a man in Gettysburg
   Gettysburg

All 7 newspaper reports from Pennsylvania

Places to visit

• Kecksburg UFO FestivalMount PleasantThe volunteer fire company celebrates the 1965 "acorn" crash with a parade, food trucks and vendors, all to fund the fire hall where the acorn replica lives.
• Forest County Bigfoot FestivalMarienvilleA three-day June festival in the Allegheny National Forest with 160-plus vendors, TV guests and a famous 5-mile Bigfoot hunt.
• Kecksburg AcornMount PleasantThe acorn-shaped replica made for Unsolved Mysteries, modelled on the object witnesses said fell in 1965, now sits at the Kecksburg fire hall.

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