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This Project Blue Book case file covers the 7 January 1948 incident at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky, which the file itself calls the famous "Mantell case." It holds control tower witness statements describing a large, bright object and the three P-51s sent to pursue it, whose flight leader, Mantell, stopped answering after climbing past 15,000 feet. It also includes weather data and Air Materiel Command correspondence. One analysis concludes that the object was not Venus and that the sighting must be considered unexplained.
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Incident # 33g
1. Date 7 Jan 48
2. Time 1310
3. Location Madisonville, Ky.
4. Name of observer I/S
5. Occupation of observer I/S
6. Address of observer Madisonville
7. Placo of observation Madisonville, Ky
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/S
11. Altitude 73 4 miles
12. Speed 10MPH
13. Direction of flight SW
14. Tactics N/S
15. Sound N/S
16. Size 100 ft from top to bottom and 43 ft across
17. Color N/S
16. Shapo cone shape
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails I/S
22. Weather conditions I/3
23. Effect on clouds $ \mathrm{x} / 3 $
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance N/3
26. Romarks: Someone from Madisonville advised Military F they had observed thru a 7inch telescope an object described as c (over) UNCLASSIFIED Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 75 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.