{"id":2843,"date":"2025-08-24T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2025-08-24T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:57:50","slug":"secret-unveiled-the-first-air-force-pilot-to-die-chasing-a-ufo-vanished-mid-pursuit-his-last-transmission-its-not-from-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/secret-unveiled-the-first-air-force-pilot-to-die-chasing-a-ufo-vanished-mid-pursuit-his-last-transmission-its-not-from-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret unveiled: The first Air Force pilot to die chasing a UFO vanished mid-pursuit\u2014his last transmission: \u201cIt\u2019s not from this world.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THOMAS Mantell was a 25-year-old war hero when he was killed in a plane crash after being scrambled to chase down a UFO \u2013 and almost 75 years on his family are still desperate for answers.<\/p>\n

The official story is that he flew too high in a plane and ran out of oxygen while chasing Venus or a weather balloon, but that simply doesn\u2019t wash for his grandson Terry and the rest of the Mantell Family.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

Thomas Mantell died on January 7, 1948, when his fighter plane fell out of the sky in Kentucky<\/p>\n

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The wreck of Mantell\u2019s plane which fell to the ground in farmland near Franklin<\/p>\n

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Captain Mantell\u2019s P-51 Mustang he was flying on the day of the chase<\/p>\n

\u201c[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,\u201d Terry told The Sun Online.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was it? I am not sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mantell was a decorated World War 2 veteran who had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroics and even served on D-Day.<\/p>\n

Yet despite dodging death from Nazi anti-aircraft guns, the young dad died when his P-51 Mustang mysteriously fell out of sky just miles from where he was born in Franklin, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

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Captain Mantell \u2013 who was flying a training mission at the time with three other pilots \u2013 was dispatched by Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox after reports of an unknown object on January 7, 1948.<\/p>\n

The mysterious shape in the sky was spotted by cops and then airmen stationed in the base\u2019s control tower.<\/p>\n

Some witnesses described the shape in the sky as a \u201c300 ft disc\u201d while others said it was a \u201cflaming red cone trailing a gaseous green mist\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THOMAS Mantell was a 25-year-old war hero when he was killed in a plane crash after being scrambled to chase down a UFO \u2013 and almost 75 years on his family are still desperate for answers. The official story is that he flew too high in a plane and ran out of oxygen while chasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[1097],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aliens","category-ufo","tag-secret-unveiled-the-first-air-force-pilot-to-die-chasing-a-ufo-vanished-mid-pursuit-his-last-transmission-its-not-from-this-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}