On December 9 1965 hundreds of witnesses saw an object crash in the woods near the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg The official government report said the object was simply a meteorite But eyewitnesses to the event disagree Some say they saw the object change direction and emit a vapor trail before crashing Others claim to have seen the object up close They describe it as a coppercolored acornshaped object with strange writing on it Whatever crashed in Kecksburg it quickly drew the attention of the US military They reportedly recovered the object loaded it onto a flatbed truck and took it to Wright Patterson Air Force Base What was it that caused the military to respond so quickly What do they know that we dont