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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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1. Date 7 Jan 19
2. Time 1420 CST
3. Location Control Tower, Godman Tla
4. Name of observer Dept J. P. Dusaler, Jr.
5. Occupation of observer Capt. USnP
6. Address of observer Couman Flâ. Ky
7. Placo of observation Godnam Tla Control Tower
8. Number of objects 1 at 1420
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight From 1420 to 1600 CST - Over an hour and a half
11. Altitude X/S
12. Speed 360MPH - according to statement of Mantell
13. Direction of flight Apparently from 234 $ ^{\circ} $ to 259 $ ^{\circ} $ South to West
14. Tactics N/3
15. Sound N/3
16. Size Belisved large
17. Color Silver - bright
18. Shape like tear drop - round; later, object seemed fluid
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction X/S
21. Exhaust trails No tail -
22. Weather conditions X/3. - Scattered but clear
23. Effect on clouds N/S
24. Skotches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance Obscured by clouds
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