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World atlas of UFO's - Globale-Evolution TV

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DATABASE 1940s<br />

his body. None <strong>of</strong> these claims can<br />

be regarded as definitively<br />

substantiated and it is certainly the<br />

usual procedure for plane crash<br />

victims to be buried 'closed casket'<br />

due to their injuries.<br />

Whether Mantell was a victim <strong>of</strong><br />

his own excitement, or whether he<br />

was struck down by an alien force<br />

resisting his pursuit <strong>of</strong> their saucer<br />

can now never be proven. However,<br />

the light Mantell chased was, by any<br />

sensible definition, a UFO and<br />

therefore we can rightly regard<br />

Mantell's death as the first<br />

attributed to a UFO encounter.<br />

Above An artist's impression <strong>of</strong> Mantell's<br />

P-51 Mustang training plane climbing<br />

towards the UFO high over Godman Field<br />

in<br />

Kentucky. Other planes in the flight<br />

turned back at a lov^/er altitude but Mantell<br />

pressed on. Minutes later he was dead.<br />

Speculation with regard to what he was<br />

chasing continues to this day. Was it a<br />

weather balloon, a star, the planet Venus,<br />

or a craft from another world?<br />

Right Captain Thomas Mantell.<br />

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