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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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3. Statement Capt. Cary W. Carter 4. Statement Capt. James F. Dueslar, Jr. 5. Statement Col. Guy F. Hix, Commanding Officer 6. Statement Lt Orner 373. 2 ## 1st Ind A/GPH/hmg HQ 315TH AF BASK UNIT (RES TNG), Godman Field, Ft. Knox, Ky. 9 Jan 48 TO: Commanding General, Eleventh Air Force, 1612 South Cameron Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ATTENTION: Lt. Col. Chandler, PIO Section 1. Forwarded in accordance with telephone instructions, your office, this date. 2. A Mr. Loedding, civilian investigator for the Intelligence Division, Department of the Air Force, assigned to Wright Field, Chio, arrived at this headquarters, this date, and made a thorough investigation of the matters listed in basic letter. 3. After obtaining statements and full information on the matter, he issued instructions that no reports on the subject would be made until further notice was given. 4. This report, however, is forwarded in compliance with your instructions. 6 Incls n/0 GUY F. KIX Colonel, USAF Commanding "CERTIFIED A TRUE COPY" JAMES·F. DUESLER, JR. CAPTAIN, US AF DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
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