If you’re familiar with the January 1948 Captain Thomas Mantell case involving the death of Mantell as a result of “flying too high” while chasing an anomalous flying object over Fort Knox, KY, then you know that that’s probably the redacted version of the story. What might have really happened is outlined in the document that @richgel999 has uncovered. It’s from an alleged eyewitness who was told not to speak up about the reality of what was seen. Some key bits from the document, especially...

PURSUE Release 01 dropped 162 files. Most of the coverage went to the orb videos and the Apollo 17 photo. Buried in Section 4 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 (serial 62-83894-169) is a Dayton Journal-Herald clipping from April 27, 1948, preserved by the Bureau as an enclosure to a civilian letter forwarded to Hoover. It contains Captain Thomas F. Mantell's last radio transmission verbatim: "I'm closing in to take a good look. It looks metallic and of tremendous size. It's going up now as fast as...