The Tuskegee Airmen UFO Connection: The Rest of the Story

64 Pages·2012·3.49 MB·English

by  Guy Franklin

The Tuskegee Airmen UFO
Connection
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Copyright © 2014 by Guy E. Franklin
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First Printing: 2014
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The Tuskegee Airmen UFO
Connection
Dedications
I gladly dedicate this book to my Mother, Wife and Daughter who
mean the world to me and continually inspire me to reach higher.
——Guy E. Franklin
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Table of Contents
Dedications........................................................................................................................................
2
Table of
Contents.........................................................................................................................
3
Table of
Figures...............................................................................................................................
4
Background......................................................................................................................................
5
The Lockbourne AAB Connection................................................................................... 6
Witness #1—Mr. Albert R.
Pickering....................................................................................................... 6
Witness #2— Capt. Charles McGee statement [Pg.
1]............................................................................. 7
Witness #2— Capt. Charles McGee’s statement [Pg. 2
cont’d]............................................................... 8
Witness #2— Capt. Charles McGee [Comments on Statement]
........................................................... 8
Witness #2— Alex A. Boudreaux’s
Statement......................................................................................... 9
Alex A. Boudreaux’s
Statement................................................................................................................
9
Witness #3— Franklin Gustav Eisele’s Statement
................................................................................. 10
Eisele’s Statement to 332nd Fighter Wing Commander
...................................................................... 10
Eisele’s Statement to 332nd Fighter Wing Commander about Contacting
Godman Field.................. 11
Eisele’s Statement to 332nd Fighter Wing Commander about Erratic UFO
Activity ......................... 13
Maj. William “Wild Bill” Campbell’s
Review....................................................................................... 13
Maj. William “Wild Bill” Campbell
Review....................................................................................... 14
Incident
Summary......................................................................................................................
16
Works
Cited......................................................................................................................................
17
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Table of Figures
Figure 1. Capt. Charles E.
McGee................................................................................................................ 8
Figure 2. Alex A.
Boudreaux........................................................................................................................
9
Figure 3. Capt. Spann Watson [circa
1948]................................................................................................ 14
Figure 4. Franklin Gustav Eisele’s Statement [Pg.
1]................................................................................. 19
Figure 5. Alex A. Boudreaux’s Statement [Pg. 2]
...................................................................................... 20
Figure 6. Alex A. Boudreaux’s Statement [Pg. 2]
...................................................................................... 21
Figure 7. Eisele’s Statement to 332nd Fighter Wing Commander about
Contacting Godman Field......... 22
Figure 8. Capt. Spann Watson’s Findings [Pg.
2]....................................................................................... 23
Figure 9. Capt. Charles McGee Statement [Pg.
1]...................................................................................... 24
Figure 10. Capt. Charles McGee Statement [Pg.
2]................................................................................... 25
Figure 11. Mr. Albert R. Pickering’s Statement [Pg. 1]
............................................................................. 26
Figure 12. Mr. Albert R. Pickering’s Statement [Pg. 2]
............................................................................. 27
Figure 13.Franklin Gustav Eisele’s Statement [Pg.
1].............................................................................. 28
Figure 14. Franklin Gustav Eisele’s Statement [Pg.
2]............................................................................... 29
Figure 15. Eisele’s Statement to 332nd Fighter Wing Commander
........................................................... 30
Figure 16. Albert R. Pickering’s UFO
Checklist........................................................................................ 31
Figure 17. Albert R. Pickering’s UFO Checklist Attached
Statement........................................................ 32
Figure 18. Alex A. Boudreaux’s UFO
Checklist........................................................................................ 33
Figure 19. UFO Checklist
Statement.......................................................................................................... 34
Figure 20 Franklin Eisele’s UFO
Checklist................................................................................................ 35
Figure 21. Franklin Eisele’s UFO Checklist
Statement.............................................................................. 36
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Connection
Background
On January 7, 1948 at 1:45 P.M. [CST], fighter pilot Capt. Thomas F. Mantell,
Jr. [age 25] of the Kentucky Air National Guard crashed his F-51D fighter near
the small town of Franklin, Kentucky. Capt.
Mantell and two other pilots had been chasing a large object of unknown origin.
The three-ship of F-51D
aircraft had originally left Atlanta, Georgia on a routine flight to Louisville,
Kentucky. Capt. Mantell’s aircraft along with the other two aircraft had been
checked and okayed for flight by maintenance personnel prior to leaving Atlanta.
The Atlanta Air Guard reported that two of the pilots went to about 15,000 feet
and were unable to get near the object, so they returned to base (UPA 1948). The
call sign of this ship was NG869. They turned around and stared toward the
southwest again. One pilot in the formation told the flight leader that he e (F. M.
Eisele 1948)would like to continue on to Louisville with the flight leader giving
his permission to do so. We kept in contact with the flight leader for about
twentyfive [25] minutes. The last contact we had with the flight leader was when
one of his wingmen called and said “what the hell are we looking for”. Flight
leader stated had the object in sight and he was going up to see what it was. He
said at present he was at 15000 feet and was still climbing (Randle 2013, 8).
George Hunt Williamson, who would gain some fame in the contactee1 field,
reported that Mantell's last words were:“There are windows and I can see people
in it (Clark, 64) !”
During the chase the two other P/F-51D pilots lost visual and radio contact with
Capt. Mantell and it was“anybody’s guess” what happened to Capt. Mantell after
the other two landed (UPA 1948). There were several witnesses who had also
sighted the object to include the commanding officer at Godman Army Air
Field, Col. Guy F. Hix, who said he had observed the “flying saucer” for some
time.
Moreover, Col. Hix said the three-ship of National Guard planes that Capt.
Mantell was a member of had been contacted via radio and instructed to
investigate.
Col. Hix said “We lost contact in about 20
minutes… Two planes later called back and reported no success (AP 1948, 2).”
The final, official
conclusion was that Mantell had violated regulations by climbing above 14,000
feet without oxygen equipment and died in the resulting crash, and that the
object he chased was a cosmic ray research balloon known as a Skyhook
(Randle 2013, 1). (F. M. Eisele 1948)
1 Contactee: A person who claims that aliens have visited him personally.
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The Lockbourne AAB Connection
Another UFO incident that occurred the same day at Lockbourne AAB and only
a few hours later in
the day from the Mantell incident occurred at Lockbourne AAB near Columbus,
Ohio. Three witnesses
watched an object seem to land. Moreover, these witnesses were well trained
members of the civilian air
traffic control at Lockbourne. The UFO was also sighted at Lockbourne AAB,
Ohio about 6:25 P.M.
[EST] by witness #1 — Mr. Albert R. Pickering a civilian air traffic controller
who on January 14, 1948
gave an official written statement to the commander of the Commanding Officer,
332nd Fighter Wing,2 Lockbourne AAB with the subject line “Report of Unusual
Circumstance” that stated:
Witness #1—Mr. Albert R. Pickering
“
On Wednesday, January 7, 1948 at about 1925 Eastern time I observed in the
sky an object
which I could not identify. It appeared to hover in one position for quite some
time, moving very
little. It disappeared once for about one minute and I assumed it entered the
overcast, which was