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Blue Book case file 1948-01 Godman AFB, Kentucky
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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.
“Headquarters”8 pages
- p. 13 Use this form for inter-office correspondence within headquarters.
Number all comments consecutively.
TERIEL CQMMAND
Use…
- p. 15 # HEADQUARTERS GODMAN AIR FORCE BASE Fort Knox, Kentucky
3 February 1949
SUBJECT: Unidentified Aerial Object
TO…
- p. 18 Use this form for inter-office correspondence within headquarters.
Use authorized office symbols to designate addressor…
- p. 20 …Rix, Commanding Officer, Headquarters, 315th Air Force Base Unit (Res Tng) Goodman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky…
- p. 29 …to Wright Field, Chio, arrived at this headquarters, this date, and made a thorough investigation of…
- p. 37 …a call came to this Headquarters from State Police, reporting a flying object near Elizabethtown. Another…
- p. 40 # UNCLASSIFIED HEADQUARTERS
IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, ATTENTION…
- p. 43 # HEADQUARTERS AIR MATERIEL COMMAND
IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL…
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16 ONLY 8X10
GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM THE SOCALLED
MANTELL CASE AT
GODMAN, KENTUCKY
7 JAN 1948
THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE REMAINS OF A CRASHED P-51 FLOWN BY CAPT. MANTELL
UNCLASSIFIED
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