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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 Basic AMC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Request for Accident Report, 23 April 1948 1st Ind. AFCAI-9D1 Department of The Air Force, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D.C. 21 MAY 1948 TO: Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Attn: MCIA 1. Attached herewith is a photostatic copy of an AF Form 14, Report of Major Accident which occurred on 7 January 1948 near Franklin, Kentucky and involved P-51D, No. 44-63869, piloted by Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., 0-006873. 2. The use of the attached report and any further dissemination is governed by AF Regulation 62-7 and AR 380-5. BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF 1 Incl Photo Cy of Acc #48-1-7-1 JOHN C. WING Major, USAF Executive, The Air Inspector
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