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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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## DATE LOCATION ## OBSERVER ## April April Springfield, Illinois Phillipine Islands Holloman.AFB, New Mexico Ashley & Delaware, Ohio Montgomery, Alabama Alton, Illinois 62.00N 33.00W (Atlantic) Fairbanks, Alaska Greenville AFB, S. C. Amarillo, Texas Anacostia Naval Air Station, D.C. Astro (METEOR) Other (BIRD) UNIDENTIFIED Astro (METEOR TRAIL) Balloon Other (BIRD) Other (BIRDS) Balloon Balloon A/C (CONTRAIL) Balloon ## May St Louis, Missouri (CASE MISSING) Adapazari, Turkey Wake, Island Yugoslav-Greek Frontier(CASE MISSING) Memphis, Tennessee Middleport, Ohio (CASE MISSING) Westfield, Indiana (CASE MISSING) Miles City, Montana (CASE MISSING) Monroe, Michigan (CASE MISSING) Wilmington, North Carolina Insufficient Data Other (ROCKETS) Astro (METEOR) Insufficient Data Astro (METEOR) Other (SEARCHLIGHT) Insufficient Data Astro (MARS) Other (REFLECTION) Insufficient Data ## Juae Summer Summer Summer June 20 29 30 30 Moberly, Missouri (CARD MISSING) Pedford, Virginia (CARD MISSING) Kewton, Connecticut(INFO ONLY) Galveston, Texas Pelleville, Illinois (CARD MISSING) Uniontown, Pennsylvania Decla, South Dakota Knoxville, Tennessee Insufficient Data Insufficient Data Other (HOAX) Balloon Astro (METEOR) Balloon Astro (METEOR)
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