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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: Mantell Incident |
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The 1948 death of Air Force pilot Thomas Mantell (the so-called Mantell Incident) many have contributed to a distrust of governmental UFO studies. Mantell's airplane crashed and he was killed following the pursuit of an aerial artifact he described as "a metallic object ... it is of tremendous size." (Clark, 352) Project Sign personnel investigated the case and determined that Mantell had been chasing the planet Venus—a conclusion which met with incredulity. Later this was amended to a Skyhook balloon, an explanation which continues to be debated to this day. |
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