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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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## 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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