Mantell UFO incident

When

7 Jan 1948

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

36.67° N, 86.56° W

Description

1948 UFO incident

Placed at the coordinates of its Wikipedia articles (4 of 4 languages agree).

1948 fighter plane crash purportedly caused by a UFO in Kentucky, US

On 7 January 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died when the P-51 Mustang fighter plane he was piloting crashed near Franklin, Kentucky, United States, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO).

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Случай с Мантеллом: при преследовании НЛО над штатом Кентукки погиб лётчик Томас Ф”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “曼特爾幽浮事件:飛行員湯瑪士·曼特爾在追逐不明飛行物時意外身亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page