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Project Blue Book Mantell case file (92 pages)
USAF / NARA via The Black Vault · 93 pages · text by GLM-OCR
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.
“Headquarters”8 pages
- p. 14 Use this form for inter-office correspondence within headquarters.
Number all comments consecutively.
TERIEL CQMMAND
Use…
- p. 16 # HEADQUARTERS GODMAN AIR FORCE BASE Fort Knox, Kentucky
3 February 1949
SUBJECT: Unidentified Aerial Object
TO…
- p. 19 Use this form for inter-office correspondence within headquarters.
Use authorized office symbols to designate addressor…
- p. 21 …Rix, Commanding Officer, Headquarters, 315th Air Force Base Unit (Res Tng) Goodman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky…
- p. 30 …to Wright Field, Chio, arrived at this headquarters, this date, and made a thorough investigation of…
- p. 38 …a call came to this Headquarters from State Police, reporting a flying object near Elizabethtown. Another…
- p. 41 # UNCLASSIFIED HEADQUARTERS
IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, ATTENTION…
- p. 44 # HEADQUARTERS AIR MATERIEL COMMAND
IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL…
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16 ONLY 8X10
GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM THE SOCALLED
MANTELL CASE AT
GODMAN, KENTUCKY
7 JAN 1948
THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE REMAINS OF A CRASHED P-51 FLOWN BY CAPT. MANTELL
UNCLASSIFIED
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