Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Kecksburg Incident and Uncle Robert

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. 1965
Interview 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