Questions
for MANTELL Doubters
1. Where was the Skyhook balloon located? (If
you do not know then how can you "know" that
Mantell chased a Skyhook balloon to his death?)
2. Did you know that the General Mills Skyhook
balloon Flight B was tracked for over three hours
from its launch site in Minnesota then it passed
almost directly over St. Louis at about 7:30 AM
the morning of Mantell's chase and that it was on
a consistent southeast heading (since passing
Iowa), at a speed of about 27 mph?
3. Did you know that the Skyhook Flight B
continued on this SE course at about 27 mph until
it then passed west and south of Nashville, Tenn.,
where it was seen by numerous people using
binoculars and telescopes and from aircraft sent
up after it, and even famed astronomer Carl
Seyfert tracked it by telescope from Vanderbilt
Observatory?
4. If you look at the attached Skyhook Flight
Path Map do you see where the Skyhook balloon was
located in Tennessee at the time of Mantell's
crash in Kentucky at 3:18 PM? How far was the
Skyhook from Godman Tower then? How far was the
Skyhook from Mantell when he crashed?
5. How far away can a 70-foot Skyhook balloon
be seen with the naked eye in daylight? Ever hear
of Minimum Angle of Resolution (MAR) in human
eyesight, physiological optics? (Standard 20/20
vision is 1 arcminute MAR, which translates to a
70-foot object at 45.6 miles -- this involves
simple high-school math.)
6. If the Skyhook balloon was over 140 miles
from Godman Tower then how could Tower personnel
have seen it and how could Mantell have chased it
if he could not even see it? If Mantell crashed
nearly 60 miles from the Skyhook balloon then how
could he have even seen it at his closest
approach??
7. Can you see a 70-foot object at 140 miles
away? Can you see a 7-foot wide truck from
directly behind on a freeway at a straight-line
distance of 14 miles? (The 1/10 scaling is so
simple you won't even need a calculator to get
it.) Try it sometime.
8. How far would Mantell have flown in his
nearly straight line course at ~300 mph for the
~20 minutes after he flew over the Godman Control
Tower until his crash at 3:18 PM? This is simple
arithmetic. Where approximately would that put
Mantell's crash on a map? (This is to provide a
common-sense reality check on where Mantell was
located during and at the end of his chase so you
can believe that his location is 100% certain and
he didn't have time to fly around on wild zigzags
all over the State of Kentucky.)
9. If Mantell somehow did get close enough to
the Skyhook balloon to see it with his naked eye
to chase it, wouldn't he have had to fly directly
over Nashville, Tenn., and then would
have crashed in Tennessee instead of Kentucky (Franklin, Ky.)? Why didn't numerous
people watching the balloon see and hear Mantell
and his wingman flying over and chasing after it
in their F-51 fighters?
10. What is your response to the AF accident
report stating that Mantell had oxygen
equipment on board -- public AF
assertions to the contrary notwithstanding?
11. Was Mantell reckless and irresponsible for
going to 20,000+ feet "without oxygen" if in fact
he had oxygen on board or thought he did?
12. What is your response to Project Sign's
internal classified documents stating in Oct-Nov
1948 that the Mantell case was "unexplained" and
not Venus or any other IFO explanation such as
balloon?
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