Somewhere in the Skies - BONUS | The Kecksburg UFO Incident w/ Rob Kristoffersen

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

On the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident, Ryan teams up with fan-favorite Rob Kristoffersen to revisit the fiery object that fell into the woods of Pennsylvania and the controversy that followed. Together they unpack eyewitness accounts, the acorn-shaped craft, the swift military response, and why the case still fuels debate decades later. With Rob’s humor and sharp insight, this bonus episode offers a fresh, engaging look at one of UFO history’s most enduring mysteries. Buy Welcome UFO People: https://welcomeufopeople.bigcartel.com/ Please take a moment to rate and review us on Spotify and Apple. Book Ryan on CAMEO at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/UFxzyzHOaQ PayPal: [e-mail] All Socials and Books: https://linktr.ee/somewhereskiespod Email: [e-mail] SpectreVision Radio: https://www.spectrevision.com/podcasts Opening Theme Song by Septembryo Copyright © 2025 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. #Kecksburg #Kecksburg1965 #UFOHistory #UAP #SomewhereInTheSkies #RobKristoffersen #UFOCommunity #ParanormalPodcast #UFOResearch #OnThisDay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rob, thank you for joining me on the Patreon feed of Somewhere in the Skies, brother. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you again for having me on for this because, fuck, man, this is revisiting my goddamn childhood. and the shit that has led me to the strange UFO guy that I am today. Weather good or bad, right? Yeah. Right. All right. Well, let's start with a case out of Pennsylvania.

This is the Kexburgh, December 9th, 1965 incident. One of my favorites. Tonight on the season premiere of Unsolved Mysteries. 25 years ago, something odd fell from the sky and crashed in the remote woods near Kexburg, Pennsylvania. The official Air Force report states that nothing was found, but eyewitnesses claim a strange cone-shaped object was secretly removed. It was in their imagination or a government cover-up.

Again, bringing out the big guns, they got 10 people to come forward for the very first time to talk about what they witnessed and experienced that night. And with this one, we open on like this comet-like object passing through Canada. on the way to Pennsylvania, and we hear from Ray Landy Jr., who was a kid when this happened, and we get a sweet reenactment of him and his brother in both their mullet glory, ogling this fireball going through the sky. So what a way to open up. All right, calling this a fireball is generous.

It looks like a giant orange sperm. I'm sorry. You said it. I didn't. It does. You can't not see that. I'm like, is there a sperm just fucking fly? through the sky, what the fuck is going on

right now? Oh man, cosmic sperm. Looking for somewhere to seed. Maybe this is how pan-spermia happens. I don't know. Oh, man. We're not going to go there. Nope, nope. Not doing it.

So it seems like a lot of these people they got for this episode, they were all kids when this happened. Yeah. We got another little guy named Nevin Kelp. That is a kick-ass name. Yeah. We need more. in the world. Yeah, there's a lot of weird names, a lot of little kids that are just like out at, you know, just about dusk here. And they're just seeing this like weird orange light in the sky just like coming down. It looks like it's coming down toward the ground. And I got to say, when Ray Landry is talking about his experiences as a kid, he's got a blooming onion haircut and a porn stash. And it's just so fucking great.

Oh, God, I love the 80s so much. Love it, love it, love it. All right, so let's see. Nevin, yeah, and like you said, some other kids, they see this thing go into what they think is a ravine. Something seems to have crashed, and his mother, Francis Kelp, she reports it to the police. She gets a call from the U.S. Navy,

and they tell her not to call anyone else. Right. But them about this, which is interesting. You know, if something happens with this object, or anything else to give them a call because it crashed right near her farm basically. And this is weird. She hangs up.

She gets on the phone to talk to a girlfriend and tell her what had just happened. And the operator disconnects the call and patches Francis directly into the state troopers. She said, what the hell's going on here? Yeah. And within like 15 minutes, they're at her house. The state troopers with these mischievous men in suits

and they go down to the area to the crash site. And these dudes in suits, they've got Geiger boxes with them. And, you know, they're getting huge hits of radiation out there. So something definitely was out there. Oh, yeah. Something was definitely out there. And I mean, the local fire department was dispatched out there to possible, you know, because they thought it was a plane crash.

Right. So the one guy that they get to talk to this, Jim Ramman. Mansky and the god love Jim Bramanski for one thing his sideburns feeds directly into his goddamn mustache It's just so fucking great. It is fucking classic, but it should be noted that I think it was Maybe a year after this incident happened. He was arrested for armed robbery. So you know Yeah take that. Yeah take that from what you will but I have so much to say about him. I know, I know, but like he he's like the guy that claims to have gotten like the closest to this thing and you know he wasn't the only one there were a few other firefighters that made it to the site before the military

showed up and he described seeing what he called like an acorn style object it was like eight feet long uh well he could he said eight to 10 to 12 feet long and i'm like okay get your measurements right dude come on man yeah but like uh you know it was pretty white around and he claimed to see like hieroglyphics on the bottom or what he described as hieroglyphics and what it was i don't know to this day i've never seen anything like it i've studied the ancient incas i've studied the ancient aztec indians i've studied the egyptians i've looked at pictures of russian writing i've looked at pictures of polish writing i've looked at pictures of hebrew writing nothing nothing that resembles it chinese writing no

Our, uh, our felon at this point also really got into looking at other languages to try to decipher this thing. Oh, he went deep, my friend. So deep. But so deep that he lost his job and had to, uh, rob a bank, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, definitely a dark portion to that tale. But like, what's interesting about this particular segment is that the town after unsulling

Unsolved Mysteries had that fucking acorn-sized object made for this episode. They display it right next to their fire department. I was going to say, was that, is that the actual? Yes, it is the actual one. Because it looked strikingly similar. I didn't know if they saw it in the episode and we're like, let's put that as like, you know, coming into town or not, but that's cool. So they gave them the actual prop.

Yeah, they did. Cool. All right. Well, yeah. So you mentioned, you know, these volunteer, firefighters go out and they're all taking a look at it. It's like kind of seamless, you know, metal shaped and everything. And then like you mentioned, the military shows up. They start commandeering houses, the firehouse. They set up shop in the town, which is, you know, little

unusual. They're not telling anyone what's going on. And then one of the witnesses, remember seeing guys in what he called at the time moon suits. Yeah. But they were hazmat suits. And, they're bringing a box down to this crash site once they cleared everyone out. But what was interesting was the box was way too small to fit the actual object, this acorn object, as you said. So this witness at least thinks maybe there was something inside the object that they were putting in this smaller box. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, this is where the military gets involved.

Yeah, they get involved. and the funny thing is is in the reenactment it just looks like they put a tarp over this thing so like it's on a truck and all these people are watching it, you know, being driven out of town, but it's just like it's an acorn object with a tarp over it.

Doodoo do. So easily done. Well, yeah, they like you said, they put it on like that flatbed truck. They tell everyone like, you know, disperse, we got this. and be on your merry way. And then that flatbed goes off to destinations unknown.

And of course, you know, what would Kexburgh be without Stan Gordon, the UFO researcher? One of the leading investigators. Yep, he's awesome, dude. He never ages. No, he looks the same like every single time. Whether you're watching like this or like invasion on Chestnut Ridge, the guy looks the same. Yep, yep. He's got that Travis Walton syndrome where they never age. Yeah.

I don't know. Well, you know, Gordon sort of stresses the point that this thing seemed to come from Ontario. It heads towards Pennsylvania. It makes sharp turns before it lands near Kexburg. So, you know, he questions this. What kind of object, if not controlled, could be making turns like this and having a super low, slow, excuse me, super slow descent. unlike a meteor, which is the official explanation for this. Yeah, so he brought forth some interesting questions to be asked of the official conclusion by the Air Force. Yeah, absolutely. And the nice thing is, is like, Unsolved Mysteries provides you with a map to show you where it turned. So it made two turns.

It kind of, like, turn, like, south and then it turned north a little bit before crashing in Kexburg. I think they do a good job of saying, you know, what, could it have been? And maybe space debris. I've always thought, and someone said this in the episode, it was a capsule of some sort. You know, we're talking, we're talking a time of space exploration. And I'm not going to lie, like, that's kind of what I've always thought. Like, maybe this was the Russians and it was some sort of secret space thing where the capsule landed in America. And, you know, our military came in because they knew for sure it wasn't coming from NASA. And what the hell is it? So,

and a lot of the witness said like it kind of looked like a space capsule so yeah what do you think what do you think of what happened in Kexburgh yeah I've always kind of I've leaned towards the capsule thing you know for the last few years like it's just it's

obviously man made because this thing like left a hell of an imprint in the fucking ground so yeah it was heavy it was big it was I don't think Romansky was paying enough attention to those fucking hieroglyphics because I think if he was he would have found that they might have been Russian.

I think it's very possible. And I mean, even to this day, this is one of those cases where the Air Force really put a stamp on it, comet moving on. But clearly the people in Kexburg haven't moved on. They've got the actual acorn right in the town, which is so cool. I love it. I've never seen it in person. Hope to get there soon. But yeah, that's an interesting case for sure. to the point where, like, Leslie Kane, the reporter, sued the government for information on this case, and she won for what I remember. Yeah, NASA released whatever files that they had on it, which is interesting because, like, why would NASA have files on it?

But yeah, she was one of the few people that has won out their lawsuits against the government. So, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Enjoy more ways to save at Ralph's, like low prices in every aisle. And when you download the Ralph's app, you can clip and save more with digital coupons every week. Plus, you can earn fuel points to save up to $1 per gallon at the pump. At Ralph's, you can enjoy more ways to save and more rewards every time you shop. So it's always easy to save big every day with savings and rewards.

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