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SUBJECT: LAS VEGAS PILOT KILLED CHASING SAUCER FILE: UFO1388
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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jan. 8, 1948
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PILOT KILLED WHILE CHASING FLYING SAUCER
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FORT KNOX, Ky, Jan 8 (INS) - Kentucky National Guard head-
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guarters revealed today that a Louisville pilot killed in the
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explosion of his plane yesterday afternoon was engaged in a hunt
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for "flying saucers" at the time.
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The victim was 25-year old Captain Thomas Mantell Jr., who was
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returning from a training flight to Atlanta when he received
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radio instructions to investigate the reported "saucer".
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Captain Mantell was killed when his plane exploded and crashed
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near Franklin, Kentucky. National Guard headquarters emphasized,
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however, that in it's opinion there was no connection between the
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planes explosion and the flying object it was seeking to
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investigate.
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Meanwhile, Godman Field commanding officer Col. Guy F. Hix
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revealed that a group of Louisville scientists will join him in
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watching the skies for a possible reappearance of the "flying
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saucers" reported over Kentucky yesterday.
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The colonel said he wanted to determine whether the object- or
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objects-seen yesterday afternoon could have been a planet or some
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other celestial object.
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Col. Hix said that the air defense command at New York had
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asked for a complete report of the "saucers and that he wanted
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to check every possibility of determining their identity.
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It was very definite that something was seen by Kentuckians.
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For the reports came from too many different persons in scattered
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localities to have been the result of someones imagination.
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