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A considerable number of pilots met with UFOs. Most often seen in the sky is “unclear what”, the pilots try to stay away from him. But some, on the contrary, are moving closer. What drives them – curiosity? The desire to snatch another piece of knowledge from the world? Almost always, it ends tragically. Pilot Thomas Mantell was the first to risk his life.
UFO – “Vase for ice cream”
On January 7, 1948, the Mysville Police Station began Receive alarming calls. Residents reported seeing in the sky a strange object 250-300 feet in diameter above the city (about 100m). Someone described it as the dome of a parachute, someone as cone, someone like a “vase for ice cream.”
Maysville Police Commissioner Reported on Flying Vase for ice cream “at the Godman air base, providing air protection super important facility. (This object was Fort Knox, in which US gold reserves are stored.) Soon, similar airbases arrived reports of a flying “cone” from Irvington and Owensboro. An object slowly moving towards the fort.
Dispatcher Sergeant Blackwell, receiving the first message at 13:20, First of all, he contacted the nearby Wright Patterson Air Base: did any experimental flying take off from it apparatus? The answer was no.
Trouble at Godman Air Base
At 13:45, the sergeant saw the object with his own eyes. Besides him UFO watched two more dispatchers located on the tower. Afterwards they described UFOs as “a round metallic object, the bottom part of which shone in red. ”
Unable to identify the object, the sergeant reported it to his direct commander. At 14:20 on the tower were already Operations Manager Captain Carey Carter, Commander airbase Colonel Guy Hicks and a dozen more officers rank lower. And they all watched through the binoculars a slowly flying UFO.
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At that time, 4 P-51 Mustang fighters flew towards the base, which were distilled from one base to another. Sergeant contacted senior group captain Thomas Mantell and passed the order Colonel Hicks find out what kind of crap flies in the sky around base.
Chasing UFOs
One plane has run out of fuel, it leaves the group. IN UFO side sent three fighters; they start to type height. Pilots Hammond and Clements stop chasing: height 15,000 meters, they do not have oxygen masks (it was ordinary the stage that did not provide for flight at such an altitude) ends fuel. Mantell is left alone and reports that he intends to rise to 20,000 feet.
Captain Mantell was a member of World War II, was distinguished composure, and in the most critical situations took balanced judgments. If he decided to continue the persecution, then he saw something really worthy of attention.
Reported by Captain Mantell
“The object is in front of me. It moves at a speed two times less mine. The object looks like a metal, huge size. An object gaining speed and altitude. I decide to continue the pursuit. I’ll try to get closer. ”
At 15:15, the radio connection with Thomas Mantell was cut off.
At 15:20, the UFO disappeared from the view of observers, hiding behind the clouds.
At 3:25 p.m., Clements pilot takes off his P-51. His plane refueled, the pilot is equipped with an oxygen mask for flying on high altitudes. However, the pilot did not find either a UFO or a commander.
At 16:50 he received an order to stop the search: Thomas’ plane Mantella crashed 5 miles southwest of Franklin.
Life for the sake of learning
Specialists Arriving at the Disaster Site circumstances of the death of Mantella. Pilot lost consciousness from lack of oxygen. Uncontrolled aircraft went to the peak, crossed into an erratic fall, and collapsed in mid-air. Death of a pilot was quick and easy – Thomas died from a blow to the ground without coming in consciousness, his body was found in the cockpit.
Air Force command officially announced version of the death pilot: Mantell and the rest of the pilots pursued Venus, mistakenly taking the planet for a UFO (such cases really took place). However, astronomers categorically reject this version: that day Venus was only 33 degrees above the horizon, and that’s all pilots who observed UFOs from the control tower, definitely stated that the UFOs they observed could never have been a planet.
The view expressed by military investigators on the sidelines that Mantell “died trying to overtake a controlled UFO”, voiced not It was.
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The riddle of lost time
Mantella’s plane crashed at 16:45. Watch on the pilot’s hand stopped at 15:16. What happened to captain mantella in the course of these one and a half hours? What?
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