Wikipedia overview indexed “Mantell UFO incident” in connection with the public record around Mantell UFO incident, a 1948 UFO/UAP dossier centered on Kentucky, United States. The source is useful because it fixes a checkable part of the record: who published the material, what topic it addressed, and how it connects to the timeline, witness layer, official response or later research around the case.
The accessible source text states: 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). In the archive context, that material is treated as a primary or secondary record to be compared with the case chronology rather than as a standalone proof of an extraordinary origin.
For Mantell UFO incident, the relevant evidence categories include military pilot, crash, official investigation. The source should therefore be read alongside the dossier's witness accounts, timeline, evidence analysis and skeptical notes, especially where the material concerns official statements, video records, archival summaries or media reports.
The evidence boundary remains important. A source page can document that a report, document, video or database entry exists, but it does not by itself establish that the object or event was anomalous. This local record preserves the source's role in the case while keeping unresolved claims separate from confirmed facts. Original source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantell_UFO_incident