Robert Bitner: The Kecksberg Incident

"There is plenty more to tell," says Robert Bitner of Kecksburg, PA






Robert with his good buddy Bryant Gumbel





Ever since Robert Bitner witnessed the Kecksberg incident in 1965 he has been wondering just what the military hauled away that night. He has recently had more opportunities to tell his fascinating account. Here are some quotes from his interviews with interested officials.

"I'd love to know what the government knows about it. It might help us end this thing for good."


Robert Bitner: Former Kecksburg Fire Chief
The Kecksburg Incident. 1965Interview with Bryant Gumbel Sci Fi Channel 2003

"Find me a stack of bibles.
I will swear I saw something the government is not telling us about. "
Interviews with Keith Gilbertson UFO Investigator


Story from Tom Gibb, Post-Gazette, March 09, 2003

Retired firefighter Bitner recalls seeing "a dozen" military men. Carl Porch, whose farmland sits nearby, says there barely were any. "There were all kind of military people," said Robert Gatty, now publishing a trade magazine in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, then a reporter with the Tribune-Review in Greensburg. "I couldn't get past them." "And the government didn't send all them out because of some shooting star," Bitner said.

























In 1990 the television series"Unsolved Mysteries" spent six days filming in Kecksburg. As with past investigations they rounded up the most reliable eye witnesses to the 1965 incident. Once again former Kecksburg Fire Chief, Robert Bitner, held firm to his recollections


December 2006 UFO investigator Matthew Gilbertson in contact with former Kecksburg Fire Chief Robert Bittner. In search of more clues to the Kecksburg Incident

More info On Kecksburg incident

In January 1980 UFO investigator Clark McClelland interviewed the assistant fire chief of Kecksburg, James Mayes, and Melvin Reese, another fireman. They reported that their team had come within sixty meters of the object. They had seen an object on the ground that had smashed its way through the trees. Mayes explained how the military had cordoned off the woods and had established a temporary base, complete with telecom link. Fire chief Robert Bitner later confirmed this story. He also said had seen an object that was 1.8m high, 2m wide and some 5m long, clearly not an aircraft. It was resting at an angle on the ground as if it had impacted nearly horizontally. Another fire officer, 'Pete', stated he had seen a ring of bumpers around it into which were described some pictorial symbols. Being of Polish decent he could read Russian and stated that they were not Russian.

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For years, retiree Robert Bitner, former Kecksburg fire chief, a man who believes that something noteworthy fell from the sky, hasn't spoken with his brother-in-law. He maintains only a nodding acquaintance with neighbor and fellow ex-fire chief Ed Myers. It's a cold war born of the UFO dispute."I'd love to know what the government knows about it," Bitner said. "It might help us end this thing for good."That's end, not forget.

Roberts Tour of the UFO Landing site

Robert Bitner sticks to his account of the UFO that landed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania back in December of 1965. As former fire chief he should have been allowed to get closer to the crash site but the military prevented him from getting any nearer.
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Tribute to Grandma Wright

Grandma and the Bishop

The Victrola Returns

Listen to "Little Brown Jug" on the Silvertone "Victrola" record player. It was purchased by Gerry and Lorraine back in the mid thirties. They recall paying about $25 for it. During the years it went along on many family picnics and kept all entertained. Matthew decided that it needed to be brought back to life. With a few repairs, replacing the speaker metal with a piece from a pie tin and resetting the needle it was ready to go. Gerry enjoyed swinging to the music coming from her old record player.

Gerry Wright's 90th Birthday Dec 26, 2009

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I Can Warsh The Dishes by Gerry Wright