August, 2018-Stan looking at a flattened area in rural Westmoreland County, PA, where possibly a large animal had by laying down. Residents in the area have been reporting strange screaming sounds and odd animal reactions.
Stan investigating a UFO incident
Stan Gordon
2014
Stan standing near the UFO mockup in Kecksburg, PA
Stan in his radio communications center
(More later pictures below on this page)
Stan Gordon was trained as an electronics technician who specialized in radio communications. He worked in the advanced consumer electronics sales field for over forty years. Stan has lived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania all of his life. Gordon began his interest in the UFO subject and other strange incidents at the age of ten in 1959. In the late 1960’s, he acted as the telephone UFO sighting report investigations coordinator for the UFO Research Institute of Pittsburgh.
Stan began in the field investigations of UFOs and other mysterious events in 1965, and is the primary investigator of the December 9,1965, UFO crash-recovery incident that occurred near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. In 1969, Gordon established a UFO Hot-line for the public to report UFO sightings to him to investigate.
In 1970, Gordon founded the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group (WCUFOSG), the first of three volunteer research groups which he would establish to investigate UFO sightings and other strange occurrences reported in Pennsylvania. Since November, 1993, he continues to investigate and document strange incidents from across the Keystone state as an independent researcher.
Gordon is a former PA State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and was its first recipient In 1987 of the MUFON Meritorious Achievement in a UFO investigation Award. Gordon has been involved with the investigation of thousands of mysterious encounters from across Pennsylvania. He has appeared on numerous local and network TV news and documentary shows, including the Syfy Channel (formerly the Sci-Fi Channel), Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Fox News Channel. He has been featured on many television shows, including Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Creepy Canada.
Gordon has been the focus of numerous national and international newspaper stories and magazine articles, some of which include the Pittsburgh Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Denver Post. He has been a guest on many national and international radio shows, including the popular radio show Coast to Coast. Gordon is also the producer of the award winning 1998 video documentary, Kecksburg: The Untold Story.
Stan is the author of four books, Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook, Really Mysterious Pennsylvania, and Astonishing Encounters: Pennsylvania’s Unknown Creatures. Stan’s 4th book, “Creepy Cryptids And Strange UFO Encounters Of Pennsylvania”, was released on March 2, 2022. He has written numerous articles about UFOs and strange encounters, and many books and publications have included his research as well. For many years Stan has been writing a column for the quarterly magazine, The GATE To Strange Phenomena. You can email the editor at: thegate.news@outlook.com for more details.
Since the late 1960’s, Gordon has been lecturing to the public on the UFO subject presenting illustrated lectures locally and nationally to social and professional groups, schools, colleges, libraries, and conferences. Among others, some of his lectures topics include a synopsis of Kecksburg UFO crash case, UFO and Bigfoot incidents, and mysterious creature encounters.
He was the keynote speaker at the first World UFO and Paranormal Expo in Denver, Colorado in 2004. Stan was a keynote speaker at the 2011 McMinnville, Oregon UFO Festival. He was a speaker at the 2012 East Coast MUFON UFO Conference in Philadelphia and has been a speaker numerous times at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was a speaker for the first CRYPTIDCON Conference in Frankfort, Kentucky in 2017.
In more recent years he was seen on The Close Encounters series on the Science Channel, Monsters & Mysteries in America on the Destination America Channel, Monumental Mysteries on the Travel Channel, In Search of Aliens on H2, and UFO Conspiracies on the Science Channel. Stan continued to be very busy in 2017, and was involved with various media projects, and appeared on many radio shows as well as speaking engagements at various events and conferences throughout the year. During 2018, Stan was featured in the new documentary film “Invasion On Chestnut Ridge.” He also has a cameo appearance in the family movie “A Wish For Giants” that premiered in February of 2018. See www.awishforgiants.com for details.
The year 2019, will mark 60 years of research for Stan into the UFO & Bigfoot phenomena. Stan will be speaking at many events in 2019. He will also be appearing in two new films “Paranormal Bigfoot” and the new miniseries “On the Trail of Bigfoot”.
2020-Stan will be appearing in two new documentaries “On The Trail of UFOs” and “Mountain Devil 2: The Search for Jan Klement .”
2020 and 2021, Stan was a guest on numerous radio and podcast shows nationally and internationally and other media events are planned for the future.
2022-Stan’s latest book, “Creepy Cryptids And Strange UFO Encounters Of Pennsylvania” was released on March 2, 2022, and is available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Stan appeared on numerous radio, podcast, and TV shows some of which included Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Paracast, PCNC-TV Night TV Talk Show, Robert Mangino radio show KDKA, Armstrong Cable Neighborhood TV Channel, Night Dreams Talk Radio, Spaced Out Radio, Podcast UFO, The Micah Hanks Program, and the Richard Dolan show. He also was interviewed by numerous media sources and appeared in the YouTube documentary series, “Sasquatch Unearthed-The Ridge” from Small Town Monsters Production Company.
2023-For updates on upcoming events and reports visit Stan’s website: www.stangordon.info.
Stan’s books and DVD are available at: https://www.amazon.com/ and https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.
For updated reports on UFO sightings and other strange incidents, as well as upcoming lectures and other events check out Stan’s website: www.stangordon.info.
