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698, get a turning base for 35.

Break, break, negative 698, you are not cleared for landing.

Be advised.

Unidentified objects seen at heading 220. Do you have eyes on?

In 1948, just a few years after the Second World War ended, something strange happened in the skies near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

On the cold afternoon of January 7th, control tower operators at the adjacent Godman Army airfield

spotted a bright, unidentified object floating in the sky. This, along with the events that followed,

including the mysterious death of a Kentucky National Guard pilot, would become known as the

Mantel UFO incident. Almost 40 years later, a young soldier would arrive to his new duty station at Fort Campbell,

another army base in Kentucky, situated 130 miles southwest of Fort Knox.

Unbeknownst to him, during his time at this base,

he would also find himself witnessing strange things.

That young soldier was me, and this is the first half of the story of strange lights over Kentucky.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories.

Thank you. As a young soldier, one who grew up in the area near Fort Campbell, despite my better judgment, I suppose I was always open to the idea of strange things, but it's not as if I walked around expecting to see them. The question I have is why I seem

to keep finding myself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and whether or not what I saw

will ever be explained. For those aware of the Kentucky Goblin story which happened in

1955, I thought it would be worth mentioning that along with the other local police and

officials, the security detail of four army police officers were also dispatched from Fort

Campbell to investigate that incident. My own time spent working with the military police on Fort Campbell seemed to similarly

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