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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.

  • p. 71 …70 Union Maynardville, I-17 Van Buren Spencer, K-13 Warren McMinnville, K-13 Washington Tennessee…
  • p. 72 …Shelbyville,D-14 Simpson Franklin,H-11 Spencer Taylorville,D-14 Taylor Campbellsville,F-14 Todd…

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## 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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