Kecksburg UFO Festival kicks off in Westmoreland County

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The three-day Kecksburg UFO Festival is underway right now in Westmoreland County.

It's a celebration commemorating the day in 1965 when some claimed they saw a UFO crash into the woods outside of Kecksburg. Some said it was a meteor, others said it was nothing.

Even so, the community uses the occasion to have a celebration.

Stan Gordon, a UFO researcher and author who will speak at the festival, said he was 16 when the UFO incident happened, and he's been captivated by the phenomenon ever since.

"[The UFO] came in over Greensburg, made a turn to the south, came up mountains, then turned back and dropped into the woods," Gordon said, describing the trajectory of the object.

"Some of the locals went into woods right after and came across a large, metallic acorn object semi-buried in the ground," Gordon added.