Forest Service Consolidated-Vultee P4Y; near Estes Park, CO: The aircraft, which was maneuvering to deliver fire retardant on the Big Elk wildfire northwest of Lyons, Colorado, lost control and crashed after the left wing separated in flight. The airplane had flown seven previous air attack ...
seen by thousands in nearby counties and states. The object, described as a “clay acorn the size of a Volkswagen with Egyptian hieroglyphs running around the base,” crashed shortly outside of Kecksburg only to be immediately secured by soldiers. The military claimed that nothing had crashed o...