Kosmos-96 and the Kecksburg UFO
Pat Flannery
a Venera probe; but the rocket suffered an engine explosion as it
entered orbit, and the Venus injection stage and spacecraft entered
orbit tumbling.
On Dec.9th, the vehicle decayed out of orbit over Canada; on the same
date something was seen falling out of the sky in flames at Kecksburg
Pa., and soon government vehicles were supposed to have arrived at a
creek bed and taken something away. Much information of this incident is
still classified.
So the question is, are the Kecksburg UFO and Kosmos-96 related? Did
another part of the spacecraft decay over the United States, and the
government recover it, and if so, why is the government still not
talking about it?
On an interesting side note, on Dec.16th, the Soviets did their first
suborbital test of their FOBS orbiting nuclear warhead system; did we
have intelligence data that they were getting ready to launch such a
system test, and think that whatever came down at Kecksburg may have
been related to such a test?
That would certainly have explained a great deal of government interest,
as recovery of a FOBS vehicle would have been a intelligence treasure trove.
Pat
Ted Molczan
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> On November 23, 1965, the Soviets launched Kosmos-96 into orbit carrying a
> Venera probe; but the rocket suffered an engine explosion as it entered
> orbit, and the Venus injection stage and spacecraft entered orbit
> tumbling.
> On Dec.9th, the vehicle decayed out of orbit over Canada; on the same date
> something was seen falling out of the sky in flames at Kecksburg Pa., and
> soon government vehicles were supposed to have arrived at a creek bed and
> taken something away. Much information of this incident is still
> classified.
> So the question is, are the Kecksburg UFO and Kosmos-96 related?
The Kecksburg, PA, fireball of 1965 Dec 09 occurred near 21:46 UTC. Analysis
of the orbital elements of Cosmos 96 (1965-094A) reveals that Earth's
rotation took Kecksburg through the northbound side of its orbital plane
within a few minutes of 05:07 UTC; and through the southbound side near
11:31 UTC. Since those times are nowhere close to the time of the fireball,
the re-entry of Cosmos 96 could not possibly have been the cause.
> Did another part of the spacecraft decay over the United States...
Seven other pieces from the launch were catalogued, all of which were
reported to have decayed from orbit between 1965 Nov 28 and Dec 08; in any
event, they would have been in substantially the same orbital plane as
Cosmos 96; therefore, could not have caused the fireball in question.
Ted Molczan