Stan Gordon

Stan Gordon is an American UFO researcher based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, who has been investigating sightings in Pennsylvania since 1959 — making him one of the longest-active field investigators in American ufology. Trained as an electronics technician specialising in radio communications, he has documented thousands of UAP sightings over the decades. He is especially known as the primary investigator of the 9 December 1965 Kecksburg incident, in which, following a fireball observed across several states, an acorn-shaped object was reported to have come down near Kecksburg and, according to witnesses, was removed on a flatbed truck.

• Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; interest in UFOs from age 10 (1959)
• Trained as an electronics technician specialising in radio communications
• Began field investigations in 1965
• Primary investigator of the 9 December 1965 Kecksburg incident: fireball across several states, acorn-shaped object, reportedly removed on a flatbed truck according to witnesses
• Established a UFO hot-line in 1969
• Founded the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group in 1970
• Served as Pennsylvania State Director for MUFON; maintains an extensive regional case database, produced a documentary on the Kecksburg incident

Gordon's significance for the UAP timeline lies in archival value: where state bodies destroyed or closed files he has, over decades, pulled together witness statements, newspaper reports and his own investigations. He thereby provides one of the few robust regional long-term corpora in which individual U.S. cases such as Kecksburg remain traceable across decades.