FUN WITH MAPS – ISSUE 2025-205

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (December 9, 2025) – Today’s edition of Fun with Maps is worth investigating; scientists still trying to find the answer.    

PENNSYLVANIA’S ROSWELL

Sixty years ago tonight – December 9, 1965 – people in six states and Ontario reported a fireball zooming through the night sky.

At first thought to be a meteor breaking up in the earth’s atmosphere, in 2005 NASA identified the fragments left behind as a Soviet satellite although their records of the investigation were curiously lost in 1987.

One fireball ended in a “thump” in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, a southeast suburb of Pittsburgh.  Officials roped off the wooded area but found nothing.  Locals claim an acorn-shaped object about the size of a VW Beetle was carried off in a truck.  The “acorn” was decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphics.  A model of the UFO is proudly displayed in Kecksburg today.

The incident has been investigated by the Sci-Fi Channel, Unsolved Mysteries, UFO Hunters, Ancient Aliens and other television productions as well as NASA and the US Air Force. 

The current theory is a US satellite that fell out of orbit.

Cram’s map of Western Pennsylvania is presented here from 1889.  

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.