Other cases same day in Ohio and
other states:
USAF-SIGN8-240-241-
Checklist; Sightings in the region, 0720-1925 Hours - Dan Wilson
USAF-SIGN1-530-533
- News Release 8 Jan. 1948 Wilmington, Ohio (5
pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB3-408 -
Incident #48, 7 Jan 1948 - Wilmington, Ohio (23 pages) - Dan Wilson
USAF-SIGN8-217-218
Pickering warned not to discuss Lockbourne incident - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB2-511
- Report of Unusual Object at Lockbourne AFB, Jan. 7, 1948 - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB3-379-386,
389 -402 Incidents 30, 32 - Columbus, OH - Dan Wilson
USAF-SIGN1-371-373-
Reports of Incidents Over Indy, Ill, Ky, Mo, - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB85-429-430
- Three sightings in Kentucky BEFORE and Ohio AFTER Mantell - Fran
Ridge
The Press Transcripts
Jan.
7, 1948 - Weather Balloon Observed Here - Edwardsville (IL)
Intelligencer
Jan.
8, 1948 - Balloon? Flying Saucer? Celestial Body? Well It's Anybody's
Guess - Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle
Jan. 8,
1948 - Comet Over City Is Just Balloon - Nashville (TN) Tennessean
Jan. 8,
1948 - Strange Phenomena Seen In Sky HereWilmington (OH) News-Journal
Jan.
8, 1948 - Kentucky Flier Killed Chasing 'Saucer' - Nashville (TN) Banner
Jan.
9, 1948 - Chase For Flying Disk Blamed In Crash Death - Louisville
Courier-Journal
Jan. 9,
1948 - Spyglasses Search Through the SW Sky But Great What-Was-It Keeps
Out of
Sight - Wilson
Jan.
9, 1948 - One Touch of Venus: Pilots Chase 'Disk' (Or Planet) -
Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal
Jan.
9,
1948 - New
'Flying Saucers' Excite Kentucky Neighboring States - Lexington (KY)
Herald
Feb.
13, 1951 -
Skyhook Balloons "Publicly Revealed", 1951 (2 pages) - New York (AP)
Nov. 21 1952 - Air
Force Reveals
Saucer Pursuit
Report - Lima (OH) News
Magazine Articles
Ky. State Patrol
Officer Sgt.
Worful - Wilson/Press
May
1948 - Popular
Science -
"Are Secret Balloons the Flying Saucers?" - Not Secret - Brad Sparks
Background Information
Who was Alfred
Loedding? May 5, 1948 Memo by Miles Goll
P-51
Mustang photo (P-51 =
"Pursuit"; F-51 = "Fighter")
The
P-51 Mustang (Ace Pilots page)
More
on the P-51 Mustang (WPAFB Museum) Link no longer exists
The
Skyhook Balloon
(also Mogul) - Wikipedia
Godman
Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky (aerial view) - Dan Wilson
Other Writings
Captain
Thomas Francis Mantell, Jr. (3 pages) - Military.state.ky.us/kyngemus/mantell.htm
UFOs:
A History 1948 (12 pages) - January to July - Loren Gross
The Mantell Case (10
pages) - From the unpublished original manuscript
- Captain Edward J. Ruppelt
The Original Mantell Story - Ch. II,
Flying
Saucers Are Real (8 pages) - Maj. Donald Keyhoe
The Original Mantell Story - Ch.V, Flying
Saucers Are Real (10 pages) - Maj. Donald Keyhoe
The Mantell Incident (7
pages) - Jerome
Clark
Mantell's
F-51
Was Not
Oxygen Equipped (2 pages) - Dick Hall
UFO Intelligence Summary:
1948 (1 page) -Francis
Ridge/UFO Filter Center
The Mantell Case: A New
Look (12 pages) -
Michael Hall & Wendy Connors
Mantell Case Update (2 pages)
- Jerry
Washington
& Annie MacFie
A UFO Classic: The
Mantell Case (7 pages) -
Lee R. Trail, Kentucky MUFON
Pilot Thomas Mantell UFO
Encounter & Crash (2 pages) - Lee Trail & Lou Farish
Captain
Mantell's Death Chasing A UFO (3 pages) - Frank Warren/Rense.com
This Month
In UFO History
- January (Mantell) (22 pages) - James Neff/Rense.com
Air Intelligence Report
203 Confirms
Mantell's
Last Message (3 pages) - Fran Ridge
Top Secret Air
Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 (ordered destroyed) -
(full 19 pages in pdf)
An
Analysis of the Mantell UFO Case (5 parts, 40 pages) - Kevin Randle Link
no longer exists
An Analysis
of the Thomas Mantell UFO Case (35 page pdf file) - Kevin Randle
Plaque Remembering
Thomas F. Mantell
Jr. - Wendy Connors
Part II of
Greenwood's Report on CUFOS site (Copy of CUFOS file)
Mantell, A
Mystery? (6 pages) - Brad Sparks
Mantell May Have
Regained Conciousness (1 page) - Joel Carpenter
Climbing Speed Not
Same As Maximum Speed (425 mph) (1 page) - Don Ledger
Pickering
Re-interviewed by Bill Jones, April 12, 1977 (8-pages) - Bill
Jones (Dan Wilson)
ufocentral.org/greenwood/mantell/
site Newsclips, Maps, Skyhook Launch
Charts - Mary Castner Link no longer exists
Greenwood/Mantell/Map
- Joel Carpenter (1.5 MB file)
Chapter Three -
The Ruppelt
Manuscript (13 pages) - Jean Waskiewicz
Ruppelt and the EOTS -
Did Vandenburg
See It? - Fran Ridge
Thomas Mantell
Dies Chasing UFO
- About UFOs - Billy Booth
Mantel Case
Cover-Up - Brad Sparks (ftr but outdated - see others by Sparks)
Transcript of May
23, 2006 interview with Francis Ridge by WFIE TV-14's Drew Speier
Transcript of
June 28, 2006 interview with Francis Ridge by WFIE TV-14's Drew Speier,
aired July 26
Mantell Stories /
WFIE
Email Thread -
Fran Ridge & Drew Speier
* DREW SPEIER, a multiple
award-winning journalist, is the 5pm anchor and 10pm
lead reporter for WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana. Drew left News
12 New Jersey, where he worked as weekend anchor/reporter. He is
a journalism/political science graduate of Texas State University.
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