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## Overview
- **Source**: [Wikipedia Ufo Sightings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings)
- **Incident Type**: #sighting
- **Incident Date**: 1948-1-7
- **Reported Date**: unknown
- **Author**: Wikipedia
- **Location**: NAUnited States; Kentucky
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## Summary
The flight tower at Godman Army Airfield instructed Captain Thomas Mantell to pursue a UFO sighted over Fort Knox, Kentucky. His aircraft crashed while in pursuit and Mantell died in Franklin, Kentucky. According to the historical marker placed on Interstate 65 near the site it "is still uncertain what Mantell was pursuing".
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