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Category 11
Sightings From
Aircraft
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The Mantell Case
Re-Investigation Directory
Fort Knox, Kentucky
January 7, 1948
Updated: 24 August 2007:
In March of 2006, Drew Speier* of WFIE TV in Evansville, Indiana, asked
me to help them produce a segment on the Mantell incident for Channel
14. I advised him that there were much better UFO cases and that there
was considerable controversy surrounding the case. In hopes of doing
other, much better segments in the future, I consented to do the show
for the May showing. The show aired on May 23
(transcript). Our
thanks to
Mr. Speier and WFIE, as we
re-opened the case and found some surprising new information. An update
by WFIE was "filmed" on June 28th and shown on the 26th of July (transcript).
Several official documents indicate that the
Skyhook
balloon theory does not wash.
1) Skyhook balloons were NOT classified; their missions were. A Popular
Science article released only a few months later in May of 1948
proves this. But three years later the Navy made the rediculous
debunking claim in 1951
that secret Skyhooks explained all the "reliable" reports.
2) A "restricted" document
shows that Kentucky
State Police
and
callers described an object as "250-300 feet in diameter and moving at
a
pretty good clip" which later evidence proved was definety not a
Skyhook. The location of the
Skyhook south of Nashville was confirmed in another restricted document
mentioning world renowned astronomer, Dr. Carl Seyfert, discoverer of
the "Seyfert galaxies,"
among other observers and is in both AF files and news reports.
Columbia, Tennessee observers saw it to the north at about the same
time as
Seyfert and Nashville witnesses, and this brackets the Skyhook's
location
in the middle about 150 miles from Godman Field and impossible as a
stimulus for the
primary cases. Incidentally, the Popular Science article even shows the
Skyhook launched on January 6th!!! Three other sets of restricted or
confidential documents
describe an object 250-300' in diameter and much closer. For details
see USAF-SIGN1 280,
USAF-SIGN1-376,
and MAXW-PBB3 680-681.
Accident report documents (and others) are also allowing
us to construct an accurate flight timetable for the Mantell chase and
it apparently proves that all the previous scenarios of what happened
are wrong, simply because Mantell's wingmen lied about it afterward to
cover up their complicity in flying too high without oxygen.
This is an
on-going investigation, with analyses by numerous researchers pending..
I have been asked tp produce a report for the Fund For UFO
Research.once the investigation is completed. The Investigation
Activity Log will be posted as soon as possible.
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
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