Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

The Mantell UFO incident is one such story.

While many will write this mystery off as having been solved,

I myself cannot come to that conclusion.

I therefore will leave it to you the listener

to decide for yourself what to believe after hearing the individual eyewitness accounts,

those of various military personnel regarding the strange, unidentified flying objects they saw

on January 7, 1948, from no less than three military bases in Kentucky and Ohio. The UFO incident in early

1948 was highly publicized at the time, appearing in various newspapers and magazines in the

weeks following, primarily due to the incident resulting in the death of an experienced and decorated

World War II pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell,

when he attempted to chase an unknown object into high altitudes, and because his plane was

not equipped for high altitude flights, he likely succumbed to oxygen deprivation during his

ascent, fell unconscious, and then crashed. The question of why an experienced pilot would risk his life to perform such a reckless maneuver,

a pilot who knew full well that a flight over 15,000 feet without oxygen equipment was dangerous

under any circumstances never seems to have been answered.

One of his close friends is quoted as saying that he could only assume Mantel was attempting

to identify something,

an attempt that he believed to be more important than his life or his family. Because of his death,

the first object or possibly a combination of multiple objects that were spotted over Kentucky

before Mantel's crash were thoroughly investigated by the military after the fact.

Ultimately, in searching for practical answers, these objects were presumed by Air Force investigators

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