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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…
1. Date 7 Jan 48

2. Time After 1407

3. Location Godman F1d

4. Name of observer Capt Cary W. Carter

5. Occupation of observer Operations Officer

6. Address of observer Godman T1d., Ky

7. Placo of observation Control Tower

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer B/S

10. Time in sight 3 to 4 minutes

11. Altitude Very high

12. Speed Approx 360 MPH - f/Flight Leader's reports

13. Direction of flight $ 2 1 0^{\circ} f / \mathrm {G o d n a n F 1 d} $

14. Tactics None

15. Sound N/S

16. Size Could not be determined

17. Color white

18. Shapo Round - at times cone shaped

19. Odor detected N/3

20. Apparent construction N/S

21. Exhaust trails N/S

22. Woathor conditions High scattered -

23. Effect on clouds Could be seen thru cirrus

24. Skotches or photographs None

25. Manner of disappearance N/S

26. Remarks: (over)

UNCI ASSIGNED

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