Читать книгу MYSTERY-MAYHEM:CHRONICLE USA - ALLAN PACHECO - Страница 4

12 O’CLOCK HIGH

(UFO ENEMY UNKNOWN)

On January 7, 1948, a military communiqué announced, Captain Thomas Mantel had lost his life while chasing an unidentified flying object. After an Air Force inquest the obituary’s cause of death was changed, it was now stated Mantel had lost his life due to pilot error. UFO-ologists disagree and claim the courageous fighter pilot was shot down by the flying saucer he pursued.

Mantel who is sometimes erroneously referred to as “Dutch” was a capable airman. The veteran pilot had over two thousand eight hundred hours of flight time. Mantel was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, for his exploits over Normandy during World War II.

On the day of his death, Mantel was in command of a group of four National Guard Mustang fighters. These piston-powered planes were being ferried from Georgia to Kentucky. That afternoon, civilians and military personnel saw a large white saucer with a red light on its hull hovering near Fort Knox, Kentucky. At 2:45 PM, Mantel and his echelon were vectored by radio to the vicinity of the cruising UFO, which was described as being one-fourth the size of the moon.

One of the squadron’s planes turned back due to problems with its oxygen tank. Near Fort Knox, Mantel sighted the UFO and ordered his two wingmen to land at the nearest base and be readied for combat. Mantel did not have “Hot Guns”, he was unarmed but continued to close on the climbing UFO.

Mantel described the spaceship as being two hundred and fifty feet to three hundred feet in diameter; his last message to the control tower is sensational and disputed. Mantel’s last words were, “My God, I can see people in the thing!” Then voices and radar contact was lost.

Around 5 PM, Mantel’s wrecked plane was found in a field near Franklin, Kentucky. The Air Force team investigating the crash came to a quick conclusion. At an altitude of twenty five thousand to thirty thousand feet, Mantel blacked out due to oxygen starvation. With the pilot unconscious, the fighter plane went into a death roll and crashed into the ground. The Air Force concluded there was no UFO; Mantel had been chasing a high altitude weather balloon or the planet Venus.

Glen Mays, who witnessed the event from the ground said, “Mantel’s Mustang seemed to come apart in the air as if it exploded.” Intentionally or unintentionally, the fighter plane was shot down.

The crash scene did not make sense; the Mustang was not borrowed into a smoking crater. Crippled planes nose into the ground due to the engine weight at the front of the craft. The Mustang’s wings and tail section were broken off, but the fighter’s plane‘s fuselage was intact.

The plane had belly flopped onto the ground, the trees around the crash area were not sheered. One of the Mustang’s propeller blades was stuck into the ground, as if it had been driven into the Earth. Mantel’s corpse was found in the cockpit. The impact of the crash had impaled the control stick into Mantel’s chest; his watch had stopped at 3:18 PM. Some UFO-ologists deduce the UFO had tried to bring the crippled fighter plane to Earth, without injuring the pilot.

Thomas Mantel is buried in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. How could a proficient pilot who survived flak and Luftwaffe perils, be killed at altitude by misidentifying a weather balloon or the planet Venus? Is the military’s version of how and why Mantel died, pure fabrication? Would a 1948 fighter plane, not be equipped with oxygen for its pilot?

Similar sightings of this UFO were reported on January 8, in Clinton, North Carolina, and on February 1, in Circleville, Ohio. I wonder what Mantel saw; it sure wasn’t a meteorological balloon.

Most UFO abductions are laughed off as imaginative yarns with no foundation of truth. This Michigan UFO-fighter jet encounter, is a mind bender, it is a verified true tale!

On the night of November 23, 1953, First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla and Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson vanished in a snowstorm while in pursuit of a UFO. Moncla of Moreauville, Louisiana, and Wilson of Ponca City, Oklahoma, were scrambled to investigate a UFO over the Soo Locks no fly zone. The waterway is a strategic choke point. The locks enable cargo ships to enter into the lower Great Lakes from Lake Superior.

Moncla’s all weather F-89 Scorpion interceptor had problems with its radar. At a speed of five hundred miles per hour, the fighter was vectored to the UFO’s location by ground control. Base technicians saw on their radar screens the interceptor and UFO close on each other. Moncla’s last words were, “I am going in for a closer look.”

Suddenly the two craft merged, the UFO had swallowed the F89. Seconds later the alien radar blip left the screen, the UFO’s speed was unimaginable.

Moncla’s interceptor did not answer any hailing calls. Searches over the impact or absorption zone, which was calculated to be seventy to one hundred miles from the shore, found no wreckage or oil slick. Both pilots wore life vests and had emergency rafts in their survival kits.

To head off a perceived public panic, the authorities did not give full disclosure about what transpired over Lake Superior. Many explanations came forward from the Air Force. Radar technicians had mistaken the UFO for a Canadian DC-3 or another transport plane. Moncla’s interceptor was not taken by an alien craft, the jet exploded at eight thousand feet due to a catastrophic airframe malfunction.

When the media became skeptical about the explanation, it was then revealed, the interceptor had crashed into the water because Moncla, who had over a thousand flight hours, suffered from vertigo. Uh huh, the Air Force knowingly gives the keys of its flying hot rods to impaired pilots. If the jet crashed over water, why was no debris found?

What ever abducted the jet and its crew left no trace. This incident has many similarities with the disappearance of Flight 19, which is detailed in this book under, “HOW CAN THIS BE”. Let’s hope pilots Moncla and Wilson were not subjected to brutal interrogations or examinations while being held on the alien Mother ship

Forty minutes after Moncla’s jet disappeared off the radar screen, a garbled transmission from the missing F-89 was heard. Lieutenant Mingenbach, who was flying a search pattern in a similar F-89, recognized Moncla’s deep Louisiana accent. Moncla was heard to say to co-pilot Wilson, “I think we had better.” The rest of the conversation was too jumbled to understand.

What did it mean? Was Moncla telling Wilson, they had better get out of their jet, now that they were in the UFO and escape was impossible?

According to the Air Force mouthpieces, Moncla’s jet crashed into Lake Superior. If this is true, Moncla would not be emitting transmissions over his radio forty minutes after his plane was splashed. Moncla would be on a survival raft or dead in his wrecked craft.

Moncla may have had a premonition that his November 23rd mission would be his last flight. As he was scrambled to his jet, Moncla left his wallet on a table at the base, not with the flight officer who collects personal items before a mission. Moncla’s family believes aliens abducted the pilots; the government’s story of the duo crashing into Lake Superior is a falsehood.

In 2006 the media was hoaxed. It was reported that a salvage company had found Moncla’s F-89 in Lake Superior, at a depth of two hundred and twelve feet. Bubble canopy intact, the jet was in near pristine condition. It was speculated the remains of Moncla and Wilson would be found inside the sealed cockpit. Near the jet was a teardrop object that measured eight feet by fifteen feet. Was this strange material part of the UFO that the interceptor had engaged or crashed into?

Many UFO-ologists believed the mariner company’s remote controlled underwater vehicle had found the missing interceptor. As the media investigated this fantastic story it was learned, the aquatic consortium was not listed in any state registers. Furthermore, all reports to the press came through email or by cell phone. The charlatans who engineered this prank were never found. They had used aliases. What a cruel hoax, in regards to Moncla’s and Wilson’s families.

A headstone at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Moreaville, Louisiana, honors pilot Moncla. Its inscription reads, “In loving memory of Gene, Felix Eugene Moncla Jr., 1st Lt. United States Air Force. Born October 21, 1926. Disappeared November 23, 1953. Intercepting a UFO over the Canadian border as a pilot of a F-89 jet plane.” Surviving Moncla, was his wife and two children. (2)