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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 Basic: AMC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Request for Accident Report, 23 April 1948 1st Ind. AFCAI-9D1 Department of The Air Force, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D.C. 21 MAY 1948 TO: Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Attn: MCIA 1. Attached herewith is a photostatic copy of an AF Form 14, Report of Major Accident which occurred on 7 January 1948 near Franklin, Kentucky and involved P-51D, No. 44-63869, piloted by Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., 0-006873. 2. The use of the attached report and any further dissemination is governed by AF Regulation 62-7 and AR 380-5. BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF 1 Incl Photo Cy of Acc #48-1-7-1 JOHN C. WING Major, USAF Executive, The Air Inspector
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