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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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# UNCLASSIFIED HEADQUARTERS IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, ATTENTION FOLLOWING OFFICE SYMBOL: # AIR MATERIEL COMMAND Wright-Patterson Air Force Base MCIA/JCB/amb WRIGHTBURG DAYTON, OHIO SUBJECT: Request for Accident Report APR 231948 TO: Commanding Officer Flying Safety Division Langley Air Force Base, Virginia Request copy of accident report on P-51, call sign NG 869, pilot Mantell, 7 January 1948 near Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky, be submitted to this Headquarters. This report is to be used in an intelligence study with respect to Project "SIGN". FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: for H. M. McCOY Colonel, USAF Chief of Intelligence
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