Hello and welcome to the program UFO warning and this episode
were talking about the 1948 Fort Knox, UFO encounter, that's
correct. The 1948 Fort Knox, UFO
encounter. Now this first article comes to
us from army.mil and this is a regular military website but
it's really well, written article by Eric Pilgrim data,
January 6. 2023 title says questions, remain 75 years
after. A mysterious Fort Knox, UFO
incident down, pileup Begins by saying has 2867 flight hours,
much of it, in combat, and distinguished flying cross.
And for are metals, weren't enough to avoid a fatal crash
near Franklin. Kentucky farm.
I think about that. Almost 3,000 hours in the air.
Mostly in combat will wear to Flying a distinguished flying
cross. And for are metals and we're
talking about Digital Top Gun here, exactly 75 years later.
Captain Thomas man tells flight that afternoon Still Remains
shrouded in mystery. He died while pursuing a UFO
that was seen in the Skies over got an Airfield over gave an
army of are filled by countless people throughout the region
surrounding Fort Knox on January 7. 1948 mantell set in the
cockpit of his f51 D Mustang as flight leader headed north for
Marietta Air Force Base in Georgia back.
Back to Louis to Louisville standard, Stanford field, he and
three other pilots from the Kentucky Air, National Guard's
flight C1. 65th Fighter Squadron had been participating in a low
altitude navigational, training, exercise, when the request came
from Commander Colonel. Guy Hicks to investigate the
sightings the 25 year old World War Two hero acknowledge the
request. And he and two other Pilots
climb to 15,000 feet to intercept.
It Fourth, a lieutenant Hendrix continued on to standard for
field according to a January 6 2005 article by turret editor.
Larry Barnes several hundred people.
In Central, kentucky had already witnessed the UFO by 1:15 p.m.
that one. Stay a day described by some
observers, as partly cloudy with high altitude feathery, cirrus,
clouds that day is recorded by wonder ground as also having
relatively calm winds mild temperatures a high of 49
degrees zero precipitation. Ian and visibility for, at least
10 miles, I like the fact that this author this article has
gone taken the time to go back and check out what the weather
was. Like on that day shows that eye
for detail, it would have been probably a typical winter day if
they had cirrus clouds in the sky.
The visibility would have been great set an area weather
forecaster. There was just nothing else
going on weather-wise so it probably made for a pretty good
day. News agencies wasted no time
trying to crash into front-page news the big Everyone's mind,
what did mantell on counter and why did he crash the debriefing?
The debrief dot org website reveals the Mad Scramble for
answers and it's February 15th. 2022 Story by Jazz Soul title,
what was piled Thomas, mantell chasing, when his plane crash,
1948 reporting on Source materials from Project Blue
Book, show notes that Air materiel Command at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio requested meteorological
records shortly. After afterward of the region,
from that particular day, they also asked astronomers to
identify the position of both Venus and Jupiter in the sky on
an hourly basis, right Shaw. They definitely seem to be
looking for any mundane explanation, but even their own
investigation found that those planets would not be visible
during daylight hours and the weather was good for visibility
later. There is that mantell hadn't
really seen Venus in the sky when he described what he
witnessed were debugging. Punk'd as a result but he wasn't
the only one to see. The phenomena calls came in to
Kentucky State Police offices from concerned kentuckians at
several different locations throughout the morning and early
afternoon. So many in fact that officers
decided to alert the fox County. The the Fort Knox military
police who in turn notified Personnel at godman as the
object. Slowly traveled.
South from Irvington to owns Burger Owensboro before reaching
godman But never, this is 1948. Not everybody had a phone and
long-distance phone call fees or absorbing it.
So, the idea that you had dozens of people reporting this UFO to
police, not to me is kind of a big deal.
Some Agave had already observed the object by 1:45 p.m. as it
traveled over Fort Knox. Now, think about this, this is
in the afternoon with this all happens.
It's a clear day so they're not seeing Stars.
They're not seeing that's some kind of refraction of the Moon,
the surely not seeing drones, it says to Tower, Personnel Tech
Sgt, Quinton Blackwell and PFC Stanley Oliver later described,
the mysterious object to something resembling.
An ice cream filled cone or parachute white and round on top
with a conical shape underneath operations, officer Captain
Carter said the round white object was plainly visible in
the afternoon, sky at 2:45 p.m. Tell her, you know, the tower
that he had spotted the object. At 14,000 feet, at 15,000 feet,
he provided an update. The objects is directly ahead of
me and above me. Now, moving at about half my
speed. 30 minutes later mantell offered an updated appears to be
a metallic object, or possibly, or possible, reflections of sun
from a metallic object and it is of a tremendous size.
I'm still climbing, the object is above and ahead of me moving
at my speed. A door faster.
I'm trying to close in for a better look.
Now, remember we said this guy had almost 3,000 hours of flight
time. Most of that in combat time
World War 2 vet. Multiple metals.
Give me a surety shot down plenty of enemy.
He knows how to recognize things in the sky.
That's what he's been trained to do.
He knows this is not another airplane.
It's not a weather balloon, he's telling you, it looks like it's
made out of metal ions. A lot of reflection coming off
of it, and barn, a story, the other two pilots Clements and
Hammond, turn back in. 20,000 feet, due to a lack of oxygen
because there are planes weren't equipped with it likely, because
the type of training Mission, they had been performing, they
return to standard for the air filter refuel and get Mask
meanwhile mantell continued, the pursuit radioing at 3:30 p.m.
that he would fly about 10 more minutes to around 25,000 feet as
they arrived at standard for the tower recorded Clements saying
that the object appears like the reflection of sunlight on an
airplane, canopy by 350 PPM government are reported that
they had, lost sight of the object, ten minutes later,
sightings began to come in from neighboring communities to the
south of Fort Knox. After a few more garbled,
transmission, Communications with mantell ceased by 5 p.m.
debris. From this airplane was
discovered in Shelby County, south east of Louisville
investigators noted that his seatbelt had been shredded.
Wow, isn't that strange? His watch had stopped at 3:18
p.m. so his watch stopped at three teen.
You have to wonder when this crash happened at according to
Chapter 3 of the national investigations committee and
aerial. Phenomena report, the Air
Force's initial assessment wasn't mantle had been pursuing
Venus since another incident eerily similar, had occurred a
few months before in which the pilot thought, Venus was a UFO.
However the meteorological records, didn't support that
assessment, look what she wasn't.
Chasing Venus, because you couldn't even see Venice.
We've already, they went back and checked and said, no, the
planet was not that high, and if you couldn't see it, listen,
this guy's a combat. Veteran, he knows the difference
between Venus and a mechanical, entity reporters around the
world fan of the Flames of the UFO.
Theory concluding that mantle had been shot down by aliens.
Who felt threatened. The crash happened six months
after the famous UFO crash at Roswell New Mexico, which led
many to again believe in the existence of aliens Air Force,
investigators eventually concluded based on the position
of throttle and the Crash debris.
Free that meant. L had likely, suffer from
oxygen, deprivation and passed out at around 25,000 feet.
The aircraft continued to climb to 30,000 feet before leveling
off and eventually taking a high-speed nosedive to the
Earth. Many suspect that what mantell
pursued in 1948 was a Navy Skyhook balloon released from
Clinton Air Force Base, in Ohio, part of a highly classified
program known as project sky hook that operated during the
same time frame, as the Roswell in Fort Knox incidents.
The Those were huge high altitude devices used to gather
intelligence and information according to the David darling
website. The Navy would launch the
balloons partially inflated, which would cause them to slowly
inflate the higher they Rose at maximum size.
They would swallow to 600 feet high and around 100 feet in
diameter climbing to an altitude of 60,000 feet.
The site claims that the balloons were likely more, the
likely culprit, a man tells demise.
However, there still exists no documentation to prove to prove
or disprove this Theory. And other accounts suggest that
what a man tells garbled? Last Transmissions claims, he
saw people sitting inside the flying object and that is
airplane burst into flames before striking the ground.
I could believe that because they say well, these last
Transmissions were garbled maybe, maybe that was an easy
way for the people that heard those Transmissions or the
government. That reported those
Transmissions to not have to say what was said, kind of an
effective way. Blacking out the content and
secondly, they said they lost contact with him.
How long did they lose contact? I mean, how long was he up in
the air without them? Having any kind of contact back
and forth before the plane crashed?
And then it has a picture of a pretty detailed, detailed
Monument here to Captain Thomas. F, mantle Junior, it says placed
at the site of mantles, crash in 2001 and storico plaque remains
and Franklin off I-65 the same time.
Baby's birth, along with unanswered questions.
Wow, pretty well, written article.
I think now there's another article here at from 13news.
It's, you can find this at w 0 w k tv.com, and this looks like it
came out January 7th 2023, Kentucky UFO mystery, the 75th
anniversary of Thomas, man tells death, but it says Saturday
marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Thomas mantell and
what is known as a Until UFO incident.
Man till born on June 30th 1922 and Franklin was a u.s.
Air Force officer and World War Two veteran who are dropped the
101st Airborne Division to do into Normandy on D-Day.
Wow. Kind of a kind of a big dick,
kind of a big deal. I mean, what a guy?
How do you have more impressive credentials than this?
This World War Two combat veteran are pilot.
How can you doubt this guy? He also wanted distinguished
flying cross for his actions during operation Market Garden
which was a military operation. Executed it over the
Netherlands. In September 1944.
With a goal of creating an invasion route for allied forces
in the North. Then Germany flash-forward to
1948, my tail was arriving. Kentucky was arriving in the
Kentucky National Guard as a fighter pilot when he was called
to investigate strange claims of unidentified flying of an
unidentified flying object. So this UFOs flying around and
people in the area are seeing it and the reporting it and that's
why they're asking him to investigate it.
It says Kentucky State Police Highway Patrol said at 1:20 p.m.
on January, 7th troopers were taking a number of calls about a
flying object. Over Maysville.
Additional reports came in from Madisonville, Owens Berg and
Irvington. Mantell was asked to investigate
at 2:45 p.m. is object, was reportedly.
Hovering for a while before resuming what Witnesses,
described as a very slow-moving, flight reports indicated, the
object was circular and about 250 to 300 feet in diameter.
Now, you know, talking about the same, being a weather balloon,
but would have just been suspended their, you know, for
an indefinite amount of time before it took off again.
Seems pretty strange. According to the ni C AP mantell
radio to Goodman to our government.
Our at Fort Knox and said I see something above and ahead of me
and I'm still climbing. He was credited with describing
what the describing the object is metallic and tremendousness
eyes mantell continue climbing with the object and his P-51
plane up to 20,000 feet. Man tells grandson Terry mantell
spoke with Fox 56 and confirmed man till told his men to go back
to base. And armed a plane with hot guns,
a military term which means prepare to Fire, doesn't sound
like the sky. Sell blowing to me at all.
Randall, Randall, reported that at 3:10 p.m. mantell was the
only pilot left and had climbed to around 23,000 feet in the
air. The ni C AP report God Montera
lost sight of the object by 350 PPM and received word mantell
had crashed and died a few minutes later Randy.
Report indicated Mint Hill was believed to have lost
Consciousness, due to the lack of oxygen at around 25,000 feet
and began a spiraling, dive to the surface shortly after he
crashed to the ground shortly. He he crashed, he crashed to the
ground just south of Franklin near the Kentucky, Tennessee,
border, and died mantell was wearing a watch during his
pursuit of the object. And a watch was found on his
body at the crash scene. It was said to have stopped at
3:18 p.m. which is just believed to be the time is playing
crashed as to what mantell was pursuing.
The Air Force released an official Port connecting,
connecting the object identified as a weather balloon affiliated
with the Navy's research and to atmospheric radiation.
Under project sky hook. Another Air Force report
speculated mantell might have been chasing the planet.
Venus, of course, we know this wasn't true because Venus was
even wasn't even viewable, at this time.
This was largely debunked by buying 1952 after J Allen hynek
and astronomer out Ohio's state university of firm that Venus
wasn't bright enough to be seen, Terry has calls without his
grandfather's Legacy. Legacy has been handled for him
to come back home from World War Two and die.
The way he did was very For and the government has not done
Thomas Justice. Terry told the fox 56, he wasn't
some crop. Duster joyriding, a saw UFO.
He was instructed by Fort Knox to chase this thing and check it
out. Mantell was survived by his wife
Peggy and their two sons Thomas, and Terry mantell.
And historical marker was directed to Honor made Hill and
Franklin off I-65. In it has a picture of it here
again. Wow, I think this is just a
fascinating article. The question I have is how did
the seat belts and up shredded. And like I said, how long was he
in pursuit of this thing while being out of communication with
the tower and and like, the end like the grandson said, you
know, he was sent that you set up in on this mission to track
and confront this UFO which he did.
And then it turns out he ends up losing his life.
This crash and the response of the government government was
well, it was a weather balloon. Well, if it was a weather
balloon, why didn't the government think about that
before? They sent the sky up to shoot it
down, you know, that, that tells me that it just smells of a
cover-up. But once again, this is the,
this is the famous UFO encounter in crash.
That happened back in January, 7th, 1948, Down your Fort Knox
and Kentucky until next time. This is UFO warning over and
out. Down your Fort Knox and Kentucky
until next time. This is UFO warning over and
out.