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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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Incident #. 33 B 1. Date 7 Jan 48 2. Time Approx 1320 CST 3. Location Godman Fld., Yt Knox, Ky. 4. Name of observer PPC Stanley Oliver 5. Occupation of observer N/S - duty in control tower 6. Address of observer Godman Yld., St Knox, Ky. 7. Place of observation Control Tower, Godman Fld., Tt Knox, Ky. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer M/3 10. Timo in sight N/3 11. Altitude Over 15,000 ft 12. Speod N/S 13. Direction of flight Southwest 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Sizo X/S 17. Color Object appeared like "ice-cream cone topped with red" apparently white with red above 18. Shapo cone 19. Odor detected X/S 20. Apparent construction X/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions Cloud formations 23. Effect on clouds Went behind clouds 24. Sketches or photographs Zone 25. Manner of disappearance N/5 26. Remarks: (over)
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