Project U.F.O. is an American television series which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1979. It was also known as, and remembered by many, as Project Blue Book. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the
Opening title card, photographed from black-and-white television screen. The show was filmed and broadcast in color.
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,
Kentucky National Guard image of Mantell
Three F-51D Mustang of the 165th Fighter Squadron, the unit in which Mantell was serving
A Skyhook balloon is filled aboard the USS Currituck (AV-7) during operation "Churchy".
Captain Thomas F Mantell, Jr. Marker in Franklin, KY about the crash of his aircraft and death in pursuit of a UFO in 1948.