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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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“Control tower”15 pages

  • p. 3 …Location Control Tower, Godman Tla 4. Name of observer Dept J. P. Dusaler, Jr. 5. Occupation…
  • p. 4 …Wood went to Godman Control Tower to observe an unidentified aerial object. Shortly after their arrival…
  • p. 5 PFC Stanley Oliver was on duty at the Control Tower at Godman Fld when Col Hix…
  • p. 6 …Occupation of observer N/S - duty in control tower 6. Address of observer Godman Yld., St…
  • p. 7 …Place of observation Control Tower 8. Number of objects. 1 See Note attached. 9. Distance of…
  • p. 8 …At about 1645 Lt Orner left tower. Later, Lt Orner, returned to Control Tower (about 1735…
  • p. 9 …Occupation of observer Chf Operator in Control Tower at Godman Fld, Ky. 6. Address of observer…
  • p. 13 …Godman Fld Control Tower: See Crner's account (33a) See Duesler account (33c) EST 1925: Lockbourne…
  • p. 31 …STATEMENT OF PFC STANLEY OLIVER I, Pfc Stanley Oliver, was on duty in the Control Tower…
  • p. 33 …I left the Control Tower shortly afterward. The foregoing statement is true and correct to the…
  • p. 36 …Good to the Codman Field Control Tower to observe "an object hang- ing high in the…
  • p. 39 …On the above date at approximately 1400 CST a report came in to the Control Tower…
  • p. 40 …At about 1645 CST when NG800 reported not seeing the object I left the Control Tower…
  • p. 57 …Place of observation Control.Tower, Godman Fld 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object…
  • p. 75 …Placo of observation Control Tower 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer…
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AP. 110. ___

10. 20. 20. ___

--faster than F-51

1345-1400 cst

Incident #33

2019. ___circular

1. ___very large

180 $ ^{\circ} $

NO. THAT GOOD 1

11:00 27 Jan 48

2. (14)

C: VT5. Godman AFb, Ken.

5. What is many ___

DATE IN 20 APTC ___

PUBLIC SKETCHES

COL 10: bright white

A. TI: "JU" ___ high ___ !!! ___

20m, occary ARTC form 3'9' ( 1 jan 52 )

226777 ON THE OVER 1 $ _{1/2} $ hr.

TY OF CREATION aerial

TWO YEARS

REMARKS: Famous "Mantellcase"

BALCOON

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