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This 92-page Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, covers the 7 January 1948 sighting at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky. It holds control tower witness reports, a record of the P-51 pursuit led by Captain Thomas Mantell, AMC requests for theodolite readings and weather data, and astronomical tables for Venus and the Moon. One analysis concludes the object was not Venus and calls the sighting unexplained. The file also includes a 1964 letter to the Simpson County coroner about Mantell's death.
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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. 93 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.