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Lost Contact: The Mantell Incident and Post-War UFOs | MHP 09.23.25.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In January 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died while pursuing an unidentified flying object near Fort Knox, after his P-51 Mustang went into a fatal climb. The U.S. Air Force later suggested he had been chasing a high-altitude Skyhook balloon, but many still regard the Mantell incident as one of the first major UFO cases of the modern era.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by filmmaker Seth Breedlove, whose forthcoming documentary Lost Contact: UFOs After Wartime revisits one of the earliest controversies in the study of UFOs, involving the fatal plane crash that claimed the life of pilot Thomas Mantell in 1948. What does a fresh look at eyewitness testimony reveal about this classic of post-war ufology? 

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0:00.0

Reports of unidentified flying objects.

0:07.0

Unidentified aerial phenomena.

0:09.0

Are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments?

0:13.0

The American people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories.

0:19.0

So why do you suppose that all of this has been kept

0:22.1

from the world? Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. Where do they come from?

0:28.4

Why can't you explain it? Everybody in utology is screaming for disclosure. The future is now.

0:34.4

This is Micahanks. From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground. Welcome

0:40.8

one and all. It is the Micah Hank's program. Glad once again to be getting into gear and going

0:45.9

in pursuit of the anomalous in our existence as we do weekly, right here, listened on demand via

0:52.1

podcasting apps all throughout space and time, and of course,

0:55.4

courtesy of the folks there at the UnX Radio Network.

0:58.6

Glad to be behind the microphone with all this crazy travel that's been going on this year.

1:02.8

Yes, I was on the road again this last weekend, hoping maybe to be staying in one place,

1:07.7

at least for a while.

1:09.3

But I guess we'll see.

1:10.7

There's always something that

1:11.9

will emerge, something that will present itself, some new and sometimes strange opportunity to go

1:17.3

and see some new unexplored place. There was something unusual, by the way, happening up there

1:23.3

in New York recently that some of you may have noticed if you live in the general vicinity of Manhattan

1:28.8

because there were a lot of U.S. Secret Service agents operating in that area recently.

1:34.0

Don't be alarmed. This was largely preemptive activity because with world leaders now preparing to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly,

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