US Fighter Pilot Was Killed Chasing a UFO, His Death Was 'Covered Up'
Alien & UFOs
Wednesday 13th, July 2022
Airman Thomas Mantell was 25 year's old when he was killed in a plane crash when Thomas was reportedly scrambled to chase a UFO back in 1948.
The official cause of death was recorded as flying too high and running out of oxygen while chasing Venus or a weather balloon.
Thomas's grandson Terry and the Mantell family dispute the official story of Thomas's death.
Terry said in an interview, "[The government] have tried to say he was a fly boy, that he was like Maverick in Top Gun, but he was just doing what he was told to do,"
"He had two sons, he was married to his high school sweetheart, he was an experienced pilot, and he died chasing something he thought was a threat to America."
"What was it? I am not sure."
Captain Mantell was on a training exercise with three other pilots when he was dispatched to reports of an unknown object on January 7th 1948 by Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox.
The object was witnessed by local police and then by staff in the base's air traffic control tower (ATC).
Some witnesses described the object as being a "300 foot disc" whereas other reports stated the object was a "flaming red cone trailing a gaseous green mist".
Captain Mantell went on to pursue the object after one pilot was ordered back to arm with live weapons to engage the object while the other pilots pulled out of the pursuit.
As Captain Mantell pursued the object as hit approximately 20,000 feet all contact was lost with him.
It has been reported that the some of the last radio communications with Captain Mantell to the control tower including Captain Mantell describing a "metallic" object of "tremendous size".
The official cause of death was recorded as flying too high and running out of oxygen while chasing Venus or a weather balloon.
Thomas's grandson Terry and the Mantell family dispute the official story of Thomas's death.
Terry said in an interview, "[The government] have tried to say he was a fly boy, that he was like Maverick in Top Gun, but he was just doing what he was told to do,"
"He had two sons, he was married to his high school sweetheart, he was an experienced pilot, and he died chasing something he thought was a threat to America."
"What was it? I am not sure."
Captain Mantell was on a training exercise with three other pilots when he was dispatched to reports of an unknown object on January 7th 1948 by Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox.
The object was witnessed by local police and then by staff in the base's air traffic control tower (ATC).
Some witnesses described the object as being a "300 foot disc" whereas other reports stated the object was a "flaming red cone trailing a gaseous green mist".
Captain Mantell went on to pursue the object after one pilot was ordered back to arm with live weapons to engage the object while the other pilots pulled out of the pursuit.
As Captain Mantell pursued the object as hit approximately 20,000 feet all contact was lost with him.
It has been reported that the some of the last radio communications with Captain Mantell to the control tower including Captain Mantell describing a "metallic" object of "tremendous size".
