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Project Blue Book Mantell case file (92 pages)

USAF / NARA via The Black Vault · 93 pages · text by 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.

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“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…
## DATE LOCATION

## OBSERVER

## April

April Springfield, Illinois Phillipine Islands Holloman.AFB, New Mexico Ashley & Delaware, Ohio

Montgomery, Alabama

Alton, Illinois

62.00N 33.00W (Atlantic)

Fairbanks, Alaska

Greenville AFB, S. C.

Amarillo, Texas

Anacostia Naval Air Station, D.C.

Astro (METEOR)

Other (BIRD)

UNIDENTIFIED

Astro (METEOR TRAIL)

Balloon Other (BIRD) Other (BIRDS) Balloon Balloon A/C (CONTRAIL) Balloon

## May

St Louis, Missouri (CASE MISSING)

Adapazari, Turkey

Wake, Island

Yugoslav-Greek Frontier(CASE MISSING)

Memphis, Tennessee

Middleport, Ohio (CASE MISSING)

Westfield, Indiana (CASE MISSING)

Miles City, Montana (CASE MISSING)

Monroe, Michigan (CASE MISSING)

Wilmington, North Carolina

Insufficient Data Other (ROCKETS) Astro (METEOR) Insufficient Data Astro (METEOR) Other (SEARCHLIGHT) Insufficient Data Astro (MARS) Other (REFLECTION) Insufficient Data

## Juae

Summer

Summer

Summer

June

20

29

30

30

Moberly, Missouri (CARD MISSING)

Pedford, Virginia (CARD MISSING)

Kewton, Connecticut(INFO ONLY)

Galveston, Texas

Pelleville, Illinois (CARD MISSING)

Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Decla, South Dakota

Knoxville, Tennessee

Insufficient Data Insufficient Data

Other (HOAX)

Balloon

Astro (METEOR)

Balloon

Astro (METEOR)

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