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Terms apply. Welcome to bite-sized UFO's, a show where we break down lesser known UFOs in 20 minutes or less.

And now here's your host, Graham Rendell.

Welcome to episode 3 of bite-sized UFOs. I'm Graham Rendle and it's my pleasure to bring you another little-known

UFO story from the rich history of the modern-day UFO phenomenon. In this installment, I look at a link between the well-known Thomas Mantel case from January 1948

and another fatal crash that involved a pilot from the same unit Mantel belonged to, flying the same sort of aircraft, but eight years later, an event which also apparently

had an association with UFOs.

I'm not going to discuss the Captain Mantel case here at length. It's well known.

Suffice to say that the pilot, pictured here, was killed on 7th January 1948 in a crash

in southern Kentucky after being ordered to investigate a strange object that had been spotted

over the state by law enforcement officers and Air Force personnel at Godman Field.

His was the only one of 4 F-51 Mustang aircraft to remain in pursuit of the object and

question has remained today as to the exact circumstances regarding the chase and

his death plus what he and his squadron colleagues were ordered to hunt down.

However, note the name of the commanding officer of the 165th fighter squadron,

Kentucky National Guard, on the memo on this page, Lee J Merkel.

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