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  • LAS VEGAS PILOT KILLED CHASING SAUCER FILE: UFO1388

    From Jerry Woody@RICKSBBS to ALL on Friday, September 12, 2025 07:12:07
    From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jan. 8, 1948

    PILOT KILLED WHILE CHASING FLYING SAUCER

    FORT KNOX, Ky, Jan 8 (INS) - Kentucky National Guard head-
    guarters revealed today that a Louisville pilot killed in the
    explosion of his plane yesterday afternoon was engaged in a hunt
    for "flying saucers" at the time.

    The victim was 25-year old Captain Thomas Mantell Jr., who was
    returning from a training flight to Atlanta when he received
    radio instructions to investigate the reported "saucer".

    Captain Mantell was killed when his plane exploded and crashed
    near Franklin, Kentucky. National Guard headquarters emphasized,
    however, that in it's opinion there was no connection between the
    planes explosion and the flying object it was seeking to
    investigate.

    Meanwhile, Godman Field commanding officer Col. Guy F. Hix
    revealed that a group of Louisville scientists will join him in
    watching the skies for a possible reappearance of the "flying
    saucers" reported over Kentucky yesterday.

    The colonel said he wanted to determine whether the object- or
    objects-seen yesterday afternoon could have been a planet or some
    other celestial object.

    Col. Hix said that the air defense command at New York had
    asked for a complete report of the "saucers and that he wanted
    to check every possibility of determining their identity.

    It was very definite that something was seen by Kentuckians.
    For the reports came from too many different persons in scattered
    localities to have been the result of someones imagination.



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