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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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# UNCLASSIFIED HEADQUARTERS IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, ATTENTION FOLLOWING OFFICE SYMBOL: # AIR MATERIEL COMMAND Wright-Patterson Air Force Base MCIA/JCB/amb WRIGHTBURG DAYTON, OHIO SUBJECT: Request for Accident Report APR 23 1948 TO: Commanding Officer Flying Safety Division Langley Air Force Base, Virginia Request copy of accident report on P-51, call sign NG 869, pilot Mantell, 7 January 1948 near Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky, be submitted to this Headquarters. This report is to be used in an intelligence study with respect to Project "SIGN". FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: for H. M. McCOY Colonel, USAF Chief of Intelligence
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