ParanoidSkeptic2
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In 1965, there was an alleged UFO sighting in Kecksburg Pennsylvania and it's been alleged that a reporter on the case, John Murphy, had found additional information, was making a radio documentary called "Object in the Woods", was contacted by government officials to not release it, and eventually was killed by them in 1968.
This was addressed in a 2015 video by a conspiracy/UFO channel and was told as if it's what happened, I'll link the video below and transcribe the bit
The video starts talking about Murphy at 8:18 (link is time-stamped)
The video itself provides no sources of the description of this (or, for that matter, any) claim and when you click on their website to see if maybe they had the sources there, the website consists of just a conspiracy based podcast. The language in the video also seems so assertive of this being the case and seems dismissive of other explanations. In addition, I don't understand why the date 5th of December is mentioned when the incident occurred on the 9th of December
I looked into it and the only source I could find that detailed anything like this was from a conspiracy website from 2011.
Interestingly enough, in 2007 Wikipedia was edited to contain the John Murphy allegations. It wasn't sourced and in 2014, the part on the Wikipedia was word for word exaclty the same as the one on the website, thus it was removed. However, the Wikipedia page did have a few links to some alleged sources
Excerpt from the 2014 edition of the article

Excerpt from the website

The whole section was removed as it was uncited and was exactly the same as the articles on the website.
I checked the citation and it gives an error 404, I looked on the wayback machine and it seems to be just directing to the Sci-Fi documentary The new Roswell: Kecksburg. The other is a CFI report which, again, is a dead link. But using the wayback machine I managed to get the report up. It says to read the 4th and 5th page for details. The report was written by Leslie Kean who has previously worked on different UFO related stories and it pretty much retells the same exact things as the other sources (Murphy making the documentary, being supressed, releasing a censored version and eventually being killed). I believe this report is from 2005 making this the earliest source of the John Murphy planning on creating the documentary.
I couldn't find anything else aside from the rehashing of the same story so I decided to look for the documentary and again I could not find anything, the top result was the Wikipedia article and the others were either unrelated or where the same word-for-word retelling of the same story.
At this point I started to even question if the person existed, apparently there is archive footage of him as he's credited in conspiracy documentary
In addition, apparently there have been records of the documentary as, according to this website, they know how the documentary started but again it's not sourced.
I'm quite stumped, I cannot find anything else besides the surface level re-telling of the same story and no other source I delve into don't go into anymore detail.
What do you guys think? Do you think the documentary existed and if it did, do you think it was suppressed?
This was addressed in a 2015 video by a conspiracy/UFO channel and was told as if it's what happened, I'll link the video below and transcribe the bit
The video starts talking about Murphy at 8:18 (link is time-stamped)
I looked into it and the only source I could find that detailed anything like this was from a conspiracy website from 2011.
Excerpt from the 2014 edition of the article
Excerpt from the website
The whole section was removed as it was uncited and was exactly the same as the articles on the website.
I checked the citation and it gives an error 404, I looked on the wayback machine and it seems to be just directing to the Sci-Fi documentary The new Roswell: Kecksburg. The other is a CFI report which, again, is a dead link. But using the wayback machine I managed to get the report up. It says to read the 4th and 5th page for details. The report was written by Leslie Kean who has previously worked on different UFO related stories and it pretty much retells the same exact things as the other sources (Murphy making the documentary, being supressed, releasing a censored version and eventually being killed). I believe this report is from 2005 making this the earliest source of the John Murphy planning on creating the documentary.
I couldn't find anything else aside from the rehashing of the same story so I decided to look for the documentary and again I could not find anything, the top result was the Wikipedia article and the others were either unrelated or where the same word-for-word retelling of the same story.
At this point I started to even question if the person existed, apparently there is archive footage of him as he's credited in conspiracy documentary
In addition, apparently there have been records of the documentary as, according to this website, they know how the documentary started but again it's not sourced.
What do you guys think? Do you think the documentary existed and if it did, do you think it was suppressed?