Skilled WWII Pilot Reports Chasing Unidentified Object and Mysteriously Dies

Part I: The Night Shift at Fort Campbell - • Military Police Office...
Part II: The Apache - • Military Police On Sce...
Part III: Strange Lights Over Kentucky - • A Diamond-Shaped UFO B...
Part III [Additional Info]: Mantell UFO Incident Case Files - (This video)
Part IV: Strange Lights Over Kentucky | The Return - • A UFO Seen by Military...
Part V: Something They Call "El Diablo" - • A Soldier Saw Somethin...
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. The Mantell UFO Incident is one such story.
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[@terrymantell8382]

I’m Thomas Mantell’s Grandson. Thanks for making this.

[@WartimeStories]

I will never grow tired of hearing these stories reached family members. Thanks Terry.

[@Ten_Dee_Man]

Your grandfather knew what he was doing. He was good. He could handle the torque on that tricky beast of an airplane. He was chasing a ship from another world.

[@Nick-A1]

Grandpa was a hard-core, through and through. The man definitely has my deepest respect and admiration.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

A very brave man. Must've been very serious to risk & lose his life like that. The 'explanations' are an insult, personally & professionally.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

a unique keepsake you've got here. :D wish my grandpa's non paranormal related stories could be drawn and semi animated this way. he was in the army, I think he was a ranger but I don't know much about his time in service. but one of the few stories I have about his time in service involves him doing a test of the nearby airbase's security and getting into the base commander's office. his CO's expression gets increasingly priceless the more the story is told.

[@michaelhands3205]

I studied Capt Mantel’s service record. A veteran of the Normandy invasion and Operation Market Garden flying a C-47 towing gliders. He was awarded the DFC and Air Medal with 3 oak leave clusters. I can’t believe this is a pilot who was inexperienced in observing objects and loose situational awareness. It’s sad that the government would basically “throw him under the bus” to deny everything.

[@freedomfirst5557]

Experts with thousands of flying hours can and have experienced loss of situational awareness.

[@amonra3725]

this is how bad, how corrupt, the govt is. they simply don't care about people at all. it's all about maintaining the secrecy in order to maintain the control

[@johnfranklin8319]

Captain Mantell a WW2 vet who flew C-47s over Normandy on the early morning hours of D-Day to airdrop the 101st Airborne. Also, towing a glider in operation Market Garden where his plane was shot to hell and on fire from German anti-aircraft fire but he refused to release the glider early and had his crew fight the fire, they then released the glider on target and then Mantell piloted the heavily damaged plane back to base. That guy???……They we’re saying that guy mistook Venus for a UFO?….I don’t think so.

[@Tht1superchargedcivic]

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[@puppiesarepower3682]

Mantell was not an astronomer. Take a look at Venus through binoculars, or with the naked eye, in daylight and describe what you see. You'd be surprised.

[@jaerys8823]

​@@puppiesarepower3682ok fed

[@davedits4602]

@@puppiesarepower3682I tried, couldn’t see through the clouds, when It finally came into view there was no erratic movements.🤷 not surprised.

[@Alanoffer]

The pilot from Mexico who had three UFOs around his plane , Which took control of the plane for up to twenty minutes and scared the pants off him and if you hear the recording from the tower it conveys his fright ,,,my point is after an inquiry they put his sighting down to him seeing Venus , its no wonder pilots keep quiet about sightings

[@keenanlarsen1639]

I like that you actually plan out a spot for the ads and pause accordingly. Most videos, ads just start mid-sentence.

[@RobSoRandom]

My grandad use to tell me ufo stories from ww2 we always thought they were made up but we loved them. Now I see ppl on yt telling those same stories I heard these stories over 30 years ago JUST BLOWS MY MIND. He would say these stories were just rumors at the time. But he also had stories about ufos he saw while flying over Europe and Japan in ww2.

[@NightMedicine]

Yeah, for some reason they are interested in military and nuclear things. It’s weird.

[@charlesferdinand422]

Please share your grandpa's stories

[@jessedellross3245]

The very first UFO story I ever heard. Even before the famous Roswell case. Needless to say, this one is chilling and mysterious to say the least. Keep up the good work guys.

[@paulbenes04]

This happened approximately one year after roswell.

[@davidmccann9811]

My understanding is that Roswell wasn't well reported in 1947 and didn't become famous until the 80s. I have a book printed in 1950 that records the UFO sightings from 1947 to 1950, and it doesn't mention Roswell.

[@shawnthompson2303]

Pretty sure Roswell was some group of expendable minimum wage nobodies from a small parcel delivery company in the year 3000

[@skylined5534]

My mum had a large hardback book with lots of ufo cases in it when I was a kid in the 80s. I remember there was a beautiful A4 page sized piece of art for this story, the P-51 viewed from a rear quarter shot ascending after the UFO. It looked amazing and as a kid it particularly upset me that this beautiful plane and its brave pilot came to a bad end. Anyway, enough depressing, happy new year from the UK!

[@mickymantle3233]

I witnessed a typical metallic 'alien' craft just hanging in the sky above me..very close up back in 2010. If this happens to you (for real), you just have to live with it for the rest of your life. While I feel kinda honoured to have seen such an amazing sight, I sometimes feel like I want to explode when people joke around the subject. This amazing vehicle tilted down toward me..& shot straight up so amazingly fast..I reached out to grab on to a nearby wall, as I thought I was falling backward ! No drink ! No drugs ! No mental illness ! Just fact !

[@jdlambo6926]

I believe it. I’m 38 years old and when I was 18 me and a friend where driving home from a baseball game. As we where driving through the country and just about home a triangle shaped object slowly hovered just over tree level across the road, stopping in the middle of the road above us and slowly reversing in the same path it came from. I’d say it was the size of a school bus triangular. Neither of us got excited and as soon as it was gone just broke silence and said did you see that!? Yeah I did said Chris my friend. Crazy when it happened we where both so off guard that we never said anything until after it happened.

[@EvasGamingASMR]

me too. had the same experience. I still can't believe what i saw real. following me at my exact speed too.

[@neverwinta4831]

Mickey tell about the aliens you met ,the androgynous looking ones .

[@mickymantle3233]

@@neverwinta4831 I can only say that 10/20 mins prior to witnessing the 'craft' hanging above me, I noticed a group of 4/5 'humanesque' people who appeared to be looking for something in the small wood I was walking through. Upon noticing me, one of these broke off & walked through the brush over to me. He / She ? just kept staring & passed me by. I said something like 'How ya doing' ? but this individual never answered. I did NOT feel threatened. I just thought they must be some sort of weird cult hanging out. They were not there when I came back that way & I did not notice any 'craft' at that time. It was only 10 / 20 mins later that I looked up...& there it was ! They were all dressed alike. two piece silvery/gray outfits / no helmets. Shoulder length fair hair / androgynous features. I did not see anyone in the 'window' panels of this craft. That these two events were connected...soon became pretty obvious.

[@neverwinta4831]

@@mickymantle3233 if they breathing our atmosphere maybe we can theirs. Interesting,very interesting 🤔

[@kegmonkey5648]

I once saw what I originally thought was a shooting star or a meteor. *Until it made a 90-degree turn going at full speed*

[@carogalo]

Interesting military and UFO strange incident stories, I might add that in 1987 five police officers and I saw a UFO at 4 am it made the same violent zig zag movements two miles to each side, almost right above our heads and it was a light bigger than a star, the strange thing is that I was the one who saw the object first and when I told my colleagues that's when it started to make its strange show, I can say that it waited for everyone to see it to move at an extraordinary speed and return to the same point, I remember that he did it twice and then continued on the same path, another came after him but he did not move like that. It is the first time that I see in a video something very similar to what I observed 35 years ago, and I cannot forget it.

[@jbos5107]

Can you just imagine how many times trained military observers got told, "No you didn't see what you saw."?

[@WartimeStories]

I’d imagine, quite often. It happened to me in more of a “professional” setting. Avoiding paperwork, unnecessary attention from higher echelons, etc. But the guy whose has sent me the Fort Campbell stories seems to have suffered that kind of muzzling on more than one occasion. His final story about Honduras (two episodes away) is the worst of them.

[@petepan9696]

@@WartimeStories Honduras one coming??

[@WartimeStories]

@@petepan9696 considering you’re the only one I’ve seen mention it so far, I’d like to compliment you on your attention to detail. Thanks. Yep, Honduras will be next, following this final UFO episode. There will be a preview at the end of the episode though, regarding Honduras. Very bizarre story

[@LynxStarAuto]

@@WartimeStories Honduras is the Night Shift series? Or a separate episode? I'm enthralled

[@quentinking1188]

I saw some strange things in the army. My brother was in the air force and he told me a story about guarding a flight line for a plane to land but before it got there they were all told to turn around and not look at what it was

[@davidregier1463]

Jon Hamm narrating coming off his supporting role on Top Gun: Maverick is perfect. Well done Wartime Stories! Worth every penny.

[@johncaldwelljr.9671]

Lol they actually got Don Draper to narrate this channel it’s crazy!

[@maclossssss1414]

It's a very interesting recollection from Military personnel. I am excited for more content that you create Luke.

[@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline]

HowAboutAvideoOnTheAnalysisOfTheCrashedPlaneAsItIsVeryInteresting.

[@noninoni9962]

MC, You hit the nail on the head when you said, "...more content that you CREATE..." That's exactly what Luke does -- "create." As in fantasy, fiction, etc.

[@dowphantom3792]

@@noninoni9962 youll prob find out one day , they were not just stories! these things are real , believe what you wish but they ARE real and here. no idea what they are but they are real.

[@STRAKAZulu]

Love watching how the content quality keeps getting better and better with each episode. Keep up the good work! As for the Mantell incident, I remember reading about this in my grade school’s library. The “weather balloon” excuse has NEVER sat right with me.

[@hatuletoh]

Ah yes, those weather balloons. Always fooling experienced pilots. And they're especially confusing when they zip along at 500 mph.

[@thedudeintheback9114]

lol just made my night

[@skylined5534]

Hey man, with a good tail wind they can easily do 550 😂

[@midnightmusic4481]

@@skylined5534 LMAO

[@P0orExpl03r]

I do believe thsts because their filled with swamp gases and with the glare of the sun on venus that night should explain it. Aww I even got a witness as he's blind and wears glasses the sun didn't bother him looking up at it directly

[@KCUFyoufordoxingme]

If it was moving that fast, an experienced pilot in his plane would not have pursued it. Facts.

[@spacecat7247]

It's on my playlist for tonight brother! Thanks for your newest offering!

[@DeeplyStill]

I love the way you do these videos. No sensationalism, and as balanced as you can. Such detail!

[@jeffs2935]

Very, Very well done. Being a paranormal researcher I have heard many experiences and read many stories, I want to commend you on your look at the unknown and your open minded approach to these events and experiences. The attempted to bring frank, open and respectable telling of the events is apparent and your presentation is wonderful. Thank you

[@WartimeStories]

Thanks Jeff, means a lot to have someone experienced say that. It seems the more I learn, the more that truth and what we collectively know as “reality” becomes less definitive.

[@prioris55555]

It's clear the governments are interacting with extraterrestrials. I realized this back in the 1970s. The major question is - what is the real relationship between the human power structure on earth along with earth events and aliens.

[@TankUni]

For devices that were supposed to ascend to the stratosphere and then expand and burst, those weather balloons sure got around.

[@WartimeStories]

Right? My thoughts exactly.

[@cell2086]

Oh yeah baby, being Canuck I encourage you to check out the Shag Harbor incident. Sort of the Canadian version of Roswell. Great work as always keep it up.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

A very long time ago I'd mentioned something about foo fighters to my dad and I think he stopped what he was doing and said he had heard something about them, but that was all I could get out of him, like I've mentioned before he was tight lipped about his time in WW2 and up until his retirement.

[@johnmeintzer9424]

These are very intriguing reports. Keep them coming please. I love anything of this type.

[@ernestoemerson3838]

Our propellor driven aircraft are sadly out of their leage with observed UFO's. Why would UFO's want or use Lights?

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

As for myself I love your work here, just out of curiosity could you make this a series, I mean a military paranormal series about the strange encounters that the service people has encountered not just these but other things also just a thought, 🤔 in wartime and anytime even at home

[@chrisburke624]

They have another channel called Bedtime Stories, you may want to check that out :)

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

@@chrisburke624 actually, they're two separate channels.

[@mumblety96]

some good ones at Unclassified Encounter (sister channel) in case you weren't aware. Here's a couple military ones to get you started 😄 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIKanWOsoreJqMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ64h3aKm9tspac Probably a grain of truth in there 😂

[@edcolt5846]

But Cyan, didn't the Mantell encounter happen in the states during peace time?

[@AirborneAnt]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So glad I found this channel!!!! 5 Stars!!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

As well as the regular things you upload, could you also go review old cases of unexplained ones too. Like the invasion of Washington DC in 1952 when they were invaded by a string of UFOS sightings. Does anyone they are trying to contact us through signals? I mean the light show?

[@tobyjuanbaloney]

I'm starting to love this channel more than Bedtime Stories.

[@tuchehstone]

That was the most fascinating take on the Captain Mantell incident that I've ever seen. You obv did the research to find eyewitness testimony which many others gloss over. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@davidcopson5800]

Totally agree.

[@Tsotha]

That's A LOT of into about the Mantell crash which I have never encountered until now - had no idea that it was part of a larger wave of UFO encounters across the entire area, nor that there were this many primary source testimonies from military personnel at various bases.

[@t_adams]

I remember hearing about this incident first on, In Search Of, back in the 70's. I know I am dating myself. Then again in the late 80's or early 90's on a cable show on a channel like, The Discovery Channel, TLC, or History Channel. I remember them saying that they found a lot of tiny holes in the body of the aircraft from the front behind the prop along the top, bottom and both sides, up to a few inches ahead of the of the cockpit and along the leading edges of both wings, that they were unable to explain. I know the body was intact and no holes was found on the body.

[@nancyjones6780]

I had a ufo encounter and the way the movements of the craft are described are just like the one that flew at me. It was during the day and I spied it hovering between the trees across the street from my house. As soon as it noticed me looking at it, it zipped over, stopped right in front of my face and hovered for several seconds before zig zagging away. It was about the size of a pizza and was the color of a sunset. It gave me the weirdest buzzing feeling afterwards and I'll never forget it!

[@vincedibona4687]

No you didn’t.

[@Dravianpn02]

@@vincedibona4687 I've had a similar experience with many witnesses. It was bigger than a pizza though

[@matthewmohri9990]

Hey! We've missed you bud! I hope you've been okay and doing well. Many wishes and prayers of good fortune to you and your family.

[@yortsemloh1156]

Great work sir. I’m loving these.

[@TheSuperSnake313]

That's incredible! I just saw you mention this in the other video and wanted to hear the story, thank you!

[@WILLNOTCOMPLY72]

It pisses me off that they insult a decorated ww2 veteran pilot by saying he doesn't know the difference between fucking Venus and a craft just so they can keep their shitty secrets.

[@gdaycunt2001]

Facts its disgusting 💯 and unlike people in my new generation nowadays that generation didnt talk at all.. weird how theres that many account from military personnel who have no reason to lie and the Government still choses to not release the answers to some of the biggest questions on this planet

[@2Nu]

The 1980 Cash Landrum case is truly fascinating and hints of a terrestrial engineered craft sourced from non terrestrial technologies.

[@rastiga9196]

That is the only case that the US government paid out to the victim's families for proven radiation exposure.

[@geoffmower8729]

My family and I saw these things over the Adelaide hills in South Australia in the mid 70s. When they sped up they glowed brighter and duller when they slowed down. They would fly from left to right stop and then drop to the ground they reminded me of an eagle swooping down on it's prey. One night we saw a light blue triangle with what appeared to be khaki bubble like windows three on each side of the triangle and 2 red-orange what looked very much like solar panels attached at the rear. It was fully illuminated the whole thing was glowing no separate individual lights. I got a good look at it with binoculars and could see every detail. It was very high up no sound possibly in orbit witch would have made it huge possibly a mother ship to the smaller craft it flew slowly in a westerly direction and past right over head.

[@marco117sw]

I'm no pilot, but the object's flying pattern seems reminiscent to scouting flights. The way it "touched down" makes me speculate that the UFO was scanning for something, perhaps identified what it was looking for and promptly "tagged" it somehow. Mineral deposits perhaps? Just a theory.

[@ydnallah1541]

It’s certainly an intriguing occurrence, with so many trained and experienced aviation personnel and the aspects which seem to rule out any astronomical or traditional terrestrial aircraft of the times or even today. I may be wrong but a rough idea of G force for the turn would be approximately 12.4 Gs, pulled in a 500mph, 5 mile loop. Even with today’s flight suits, that would be rather bad news for the pilot.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

Whatever what the object [s] was could not have been manned. At least by an earthly being.

[@rastiga9196]

@@Razor-gx2dq Or they had/have some kind of tech that makes Inertia obsolete.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@rastiga9196 In other words, it works exactly as described by Navy pilots and Bob Lazar.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

This occurred not to long after Roswell, but I've been hearing about certain events saying that they're been more than just that one just what is going on and afterwards.

[@cynthiapate9138]

The crash debris from Roswell was mostly at Wright AFB. The Ohio sightings weren’t that far away. ???

[@stuartd9741]

There is the possibility that if a ufo did crash in Roswell. The original " owners" would want that technology Back. Hence the activity. Search & rescue perhaps....?

[@filthycasual8187]

@@stuartd9741 It's possible.

[@chuckshipley9917]

I found the simplicity of your animation particularly haunting. Definitely a great choice. I would like to see the "Southern Illinois incident" get the same treatment.

[@fevinman7162]

Great video! Really liked your analysis in this video, reminded of me of your first video, Ghost Blimp. Keep up the quality content!

[@robertkoford471]

nice show. Thanks. Something I feel as being important in this case is this: 1515 Mantell checks in for last time. for whatever reason, at 1518 Mantell's watch is smashed and remains frozen at 1518. The witnesses to the explosion and crashing of Captain Mantell put the incident at 1600. If mantell's plane crashed at 1600 hrs, what happened to mantell that caused his watch to get so busted up, when he hadn't crashed yet? Thanks again.

[@uacmarine19]

Fascinating! Great work as always! 👍🏻

[@cameriqueTV]

Yours is the FIRST YT video I've seen where the ad break was written in. Well done.

[@WartimeStories]

Well thank you for saying so. My parents didn’t get a tv until I was about 10 (in 1998-99) so I grew up listening to radio programs. Started noticing the ad breaks could be very disruptive to the story and remembered they used to do them like this for the radio programs. Always hoping to improve!

[@brucehester888]

I'm from Owensboro Kentucky. Late one night I was with my cousin and we both saw a huge brilliant green object flying really close. maybe 70 ft from the powerlines. Lost 3 hours of time that night.. Think it was spring 1998.. 4 or 5 years later I was in a car wreck, woke up in the hospital and it brought be back to the night.. My cousin doesn't remember. Maybe because he was drinking. I was sober. It was my senior year of HS. Was grounded for staying out too late.

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Stories like this always gives me the chills keep up the great work

[@noninoni9962]

My father joined the US ARMY AIR CORPS way back when, then when it split unto the two branches, US Air Force and US Army, he went with the Air Force... He went to OCS then flight school and flew fighters until transitioning to cargo during VN war... He retired as an O-5/with 26 yrs. When I asked him if he had ever disclosed that he had seen any UFO's (after my sighting not long before), he told me "It's an unwritten rule, pilots who wish to remain on flight status and continue flying, do NOT report seeing UFO's." I nodded and left it at that.

[@christopherwilson5212]

I really enjoy listening to & watching these vids! Keep up the great work!!! Very interesting

[@lilhotdog7011]

What a badass video. The presentation, animation and, mostly the content are outstanding. Very well done!

[@WartimeStories]

Well thank you 🤟

[@Slyarno2795]

This is a interesting story to hear hope to hear other stories coming if i can give out some suggestions.

[@WartimeStories]

I’m always open to story suggestions! Go for it.

[@Slyarno2795]

@@WartimeStories I think the opening the old one had the shark sequence call survival i need to look into that some day.

[@WartimeStories]

@@Slyarno2795 getting around to that one sometime in the coming months I expect. The USS Indianapolis.

[@ryanbyrne7584]

🤔 it's strange that the wingman couldn't see another jet as though it just disappeared, plus why would he go so high when he knows he's going to lose oxygen and the repercussions ... it's almost as though the jet was taken into the unidentified flying metal object and released much higher or tampered with causing it to downward spiral nosedive. I just can't see a trained pilot basically playing with death just to find out what this metal flying thing is, how would he get any discovered information back to the men in KY? The military trains safety, I'm just not buying it. I really believe his jet was briefly abducted

[@abdulqudz89]

nice work as always.

[@franklee2477]

Always good to see a video of yours. Well done my man👍🙂👍

[@hertzair1186]

What is most puzzling to me in this case, is why would an experienced pilot continue to climb to the thin air with out O2? He was either over focused with “target fixation” …..or something else had a hold of him.

[@mikebond6328]

Maybe he was ordered to do so.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

Target fixation x1000 Imagine you're chasing something you've never seen before and can't explain (and which could potentially be a threat!).. pretty easy to get blinkered in such a situation; not that I'm claiming that's what happened here

[@gordy-jt6vg]

Experienced pilots don't do that, surely I don't have to tell you that, you're been lied, to weather ballons lol. are they still using weather balloons as UFOs, today. He got a lucky 5sec burst into the craft, he's relaying everything he's doing to the tower, there are 3people, actually he just says people, not how many. The ,3venusians never expected to be fired, upon their defense shields were down, there were many witness's, this happened over the Goodnam airfield, they watched the craft float to the ground in ever deminishing circles, They were startled to see Mantels craft exsplode, an break up, in a bright blue, flash (the venusian craft responded automatically) an fall to the ground, about a mile from the end of the runway, when they reached the wreckage, his skeleton was all they found, he'd been vaporized.

[@davidmccann9811]

He may have stalled the aircraft in that long climb.

[@ethanmartin7588]

The best features of this channel that I prefer over other channels of this genre are its use of very well crafted illustrations and interesting dialogue.

[@northblue8216]

Well, that's strange... When I heard this story, it was reported that when they found the remains of Mantell's plane, it was in pieces no bigger than your hand and with tiny holes piercing thru all the pieces. No mention if they ever found his body tho....

[@shroompicn-shrooman]

Absolutely love this channel ❤... keep up the great work

[@starmnsixty1209]

There's another early work you should check out for general information, Luke, THE UFO EVIDENCE(1964, I think) by the late Richard Hall. It's been reissued in recent years I believe, full of various cases. Hall was associated with (Ret.) Marine Corps Major Donald E . Keyhoe, and NICAP. ( National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena), of which Keyhoe was director for many years. I realize the works I'm recommending are early ones. One needs to check them out in order have a better understanding of how we reached the place we are at today in regards to UFOs (UAPs). To your videos-👍

[@dowphantom3792]

i absolutely believe this because ive seen these orbs twice now myself , 4 years apart , they are real things and exactly like described in this story , even its movements , no sound and color at night sounds the same as my experience with these orbs , I seen two together at night very very close few hundred feet away , and one floating over my house 4 years later in the day this time , looked like a stainless steel ball. Very very strange to witness , my mother , her friend and my son also witnessed them.

[@matthewkurapka1426]

Love the content!! Keep up the great work

[@HMSPrinceofWhales53p]

One thing I would like to point out is that in 1948, the P-80 Shooting Star was in service. This was the US's first Jet aircraft able to go 500mph+ in the US's arsenal. While not likely, I think it's possible that the lights in Ohio could have been a rough P-80 pilot. I also know that post war several axis aircraft had been brought for testing in the US, some in Ohio (I think) so perhaps a misidentification of airplanes could have contributed to the initial incident, given the secretive nature of the testing. I don't know if these are true but something I just wanted to point out.

[@67marlins]

That's reasonable

[@TheUnnamedAssailant]

Doubtful, the suddenness of the movements along with the object staying stationary before moving rapidly again sounds nothing like jet.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

Also - No sound was reported 1940s jet engine's weren't subtle.. and couldn't hover

[@filthycasual8187]

@@unbearifiedbear1885 Same with our aircraft today.

[@gordy-jt6vg]

this incident happened over Goodnam Field, if they were as you say, then the tower would not need to direct Mantel to investigate, It was a unidentified craft.

[@foolfighter100]

Excellent job. Thank you very very much.

[@ryanosourus]

Love this channel!

[@katinamartin7934]

Absolutely outstanding job with each video you post your content just keeps getting better and better onto the next to good sir

[@andrewkaye2108]

I was a bit disappointed that there were no statements from Mantell's wingman at the time. They may have given extra insight and confirmed what he was seeing before his untimely death. Otherwise, great work once again.

[@prioris55555]

probably told to shut up

[@wendelllanders8439]

Very well done!Enjoyed the attention to detail and evidence!Thank you!!

[@ladyellice1863]

Very interesting & enjoyable episode Luke. I am always amazed when people state there is “no real evidence “ for UFOs, whereas this episode alone provides so much compelling evidence from exemplary witnesses that to disbelieve seems to me to be wilfully obtuse! 😲

[@HolyXerxes]

Object that can move fast and sometime make weird maneuver, have either methalic looking or even weird shape. Government : Yeah! a Ballon!

[@isabellaangeline2175]

How many times do they expect to use the, “It was just a weather balloon” excuse? Because they’ve used it repeatedly and it’s getting old.

[@grimble4564]

To be fair, now they at least say "There's weird craft in the skies and we don't know what they are", even though parts of the military absolutely know stuff about them

[@j0917DW]

And here we are 2023 and “balloons “ are back in the headlines

[@andevil777]

Fascinating stuff, I use to confuse this with the incident over Lake Superior.

[@Eagle-nq2mv]

Hi Luke , I think your channel is fantastic. I wonder is there a way to speed up your stories . I enjoy just listening to your stories, without the art work.maybe you could try some stories audio.Just sayin.

[@jonahrains7483]

This episode was a little dry compared to some of your other videos. The only real problem I have is you don't make enough videos! Love your work!

[@WartimeStories]

Dude, no worries, I know entirely what you mean. Honestly I didn’t even want to post it when I was done with it 😅 I just wanted to read some of the eyewitness reports for anyone interested in hearing them, not this. It just snowballed on me and I was past the point of no return. 😩😂 I am really bad at doing anything in shortform. I seem to hoard details.

[@BlackDiluvian]

I respectfully disagree. I loved the detailed walkthrough of the witness reports and the comments. The graphics and the subtlety of them, made the whole thing even more poignant, and made me get a feeling of the actual experience. Much more so than some of the overly dramatic reenactments on other channels.

[@WartimeStories]

​@@BlackDiluvian and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to say so. For me, as fascinating as this and other stories are, I think the amount of time I spend with each story (writing, audio/editing, animation) and hearing it repeated about 50 times before I release the video, it just burns my brain out. So I then seem to lose my sense of whether the story is as interesting as I thought it was several weeks before. So thanks again for the feedback, as it’s incredibly encouraging for me to hear.

[@heathersteinhoff9540]

Thank you.

[@jhsrt985]

Yea can you do the foo fighters when u get time I'm sure everyone will love that one, stellar work as always 💪💪🍻🍻

[@EllEff652]

Nicely presented video, excellent graphics, thank you. My experience: Fall, 1976, sunset just after DST, north side of Chicago, buddies and me playing football in the yard after school, clear skies, looked up to see cigar-shaped object about 2k feet in the southwest sky over the house, hovering silently, red pulsing glows-not lights-at each end, looked down for a moment, looked back and object was gone. I am of the "I-know-what-I -saw" crowd now. Never had interest in, or knowledge of, UFOs before this experience. Afterwards, I became interested in the subject and learned of Roswell, Betty and Barney Hill, and Travis Walton, as well as began reading Von Daniken's theories. IMO we can't rule out anything about the origin of UFOs. I keep an open mind.

[@JS-ob4oh]

UFO sightings by military personnel have existed long before the term UFO came into our lexicon. Over Europe during WW2, pilots from both sides reported glowing objects following and maneuvering around their aircrafts. It was an American crew from the US 415th Night Fighter Squadron who coined the term "foo fighters" and strangely they did it out of frustration because those who debriefed them kept trying to talk them into believing it was their imagination (from exhaustion) or they saw planet something. The term FOO was a nonsense word used in a popular comic strip Smokey Stover. So a foo-fighter = non-existing fighter as the military wanted them to believe. In the years to come, that pressure to recant sightings evolved into a threat of losing ones wing which was enough to make pilots shy away from making any formal reports of UFO sightings. And if you persist it could result in discharged from the military under Section 8 (discharge from service due to service member judged mentally unfit) good luck trying to get a job in the civilian world with that on your record..

[@xBU11ETPROOFx]

I really enjoyed this story. Is this channel related to Bedtime stories? i'm subscribed to them too.

[@WartimeStories]

Thanks! And yes, it most certainly is good sir. If you’re interested in how the channel became affiliated, I figured I should explain that here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4u7kqOKi9Vmj6M Around the 4:50 mark of that video.

[@Pembroke.]

I have heard of this many times before, and the closest I could figure out is that they were following ufo probes. The strange question is, if they were probes, what were they searching for, or did they find it? Thanks, Luke your the best

[@stuartd9741]

It does appear the Ariel phenomena is just observing, mapping out the area perhaps. It also seems like UFOs like or are very interested in our nuclear technology. Anywhere that has a connection to nuclear civilian or military seem to be focus of attention... .... Flip this 180° If you were on a mission across the stars and found a planet with civilization. Wouldn't you set a probe down to have a look first check it's safe to land?

[@Pembroke.]

@@stuartd9741 Sending advanced scouts (probes) is a logical choice. However, these probes are very aware of our nuclear capability. In the past they even shut down nuclear missiles and in one case may have interfered with a nuclear power station. Strangely enough there are some cases where they are not extraterrestrial but interdimensional. There are some people that strongly insist certain governments have access to Star Gates technology for which require nuclear radiation to activate. It is also strongly insisted that certain beings are trying to interfere with the activation of such devices.

[@stuartd9741]

@@Pembroke. Indeed.. that incident where a ufo interfered with a power station. It is theorized , the ufo was attempting an energy transfer, (By means beyond us) However in the transfer the containment field collapse nearly causing the reactor to almost meltdown. The Stargate theory is feasible.. except the power requirements would be huge. Something we currently don't have..unless the work out how to make nuclear fusion work..they're close still some way off. I doubt any earthbound government has Stargate technology... Understanding how such a gate would work is beyond human comprehension - unless they has some help in that department...🤔

[@Pembroke.]

@@stuartd9741 They do have help in that department. Stargates don't need that much power but they do need the right type of power. Possible governments acquiring technology. US, Europe, Iran, India, Egypt possible China and most definitely South America, Antarctica and Australia. The field attempt to use a Stargate was known as The Philadelphia experiment. 🤔

[@stantaylor3350]

Have you done a study to see, how long do witnesses of these events live after seeing these things? 8 to 10 yrs maybe. Just curious

[@jhsrt985]

Haven't even made it past the commercials yet but thanks 4 this in in advance

[@jamesrobinson88]

Thank You for your sharing of the stories . Gr8 start to any day😀

[@ericzerkle5214]

Would you please do a video of the June 8th 1951 Wayne co Indiana Air Force incident where several planes just literally fell out of the sky? No real explanation has ever been found.

[@hokutoulrik7345]

Honestly, with the fact that so many cases that were covered under PROJECT BLUEBOOK involved military personnel, usually of high rank and not prone to fabrication on the level required for the events that were investigated, I tend to take the official conclusions with a hefty helping of salt because it is more likely that the government was either covering up some seriously advanced tech at the time, some of the incidents being explainable by spotting the U-2 during its testing phase depending upon the location of the event, or something that they could not explain and did not want to admit they had no idea what it was. Even the cases that might be explainable by some Skunk Works project still have enough questions that it could have been something else.

[@angloaust1575]

Embarrassing for the government Entering and leaving at fast speeds Probably just observing for the last 75 years!

[@patriciajrs46]

There are too many of these reports for them to be anything but real. Thanks for this. No aircraft that we know of, even a helicopter, can make these kinds of switching, flipping, bouncing banks and turns. They certainly cannot do them without sound. Thanks. Feb 2022.

[@williamsandell3260]

I was fairly familiar with this case , I thought, but didn’t realize how many other reports there were of this UFO …thanks for the info

[@paulcook8316]

Well done,keep doing what your doing and to you sir,thank you 🙏

[@Exton_Z1]

Is there possible to make a story about Bob Lazar working on UFO ship on Area 51?

[@tomupchurch4911]

Emergency Personnel on the ground said Mantell's Mustang was peppered with thousands of little tiny holes roughly .005" in diameter before everybody got gagged and hushed up and swept under the rug.

[@gordy-jt6vg]

He got a lucky 3second burst into a vulnerable part of the craft. witness's also said it disintegrated, in a blinding flash the venusian, craft retaliated automatically, an lasered him out of the sky, he was vaporized.

[@EVILJAMARR]

I have heard different people tell the story of these disks over the years, and this is a great explanation of the Mantell events. I really like the Wartime Stories narrator - the other guy produces lots of hard ‘S’ sounds with his voice and it slices through the mix and gets annoying fast. I suggested using “de-esser” plugins for the audio track. No idea if anyone took my advice.

[@stevelyons3347]

Very good and very thorough. 👍

[@typhonsbane56er71]

I love this channel ❤

[@puppiesarepower3682]

I'm very impressed, you guys handled this story really well. I had never heard of this second sighting. The detailed multiple reports make it difficult to half a$$ explain it away; in the manner that skeptics, like Bill Nye or Phillip Klass, are known to do.

[@buckster2575]

Bill Nye is a idiot and Phillip klass is a government stooge.

[@fredfungalspore]

Well done... Would like you to cover and your rendition of Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

Oh thank you, I just heard about Fort Knox story today a paranormal one and 🤯🤯, something to do with a American civil war cemetery there.

[@PaulNicoll-b8c]

The P51's airframe was riddled with tiny holes like termite burrows

[@0therun1t21]

It's so insulting to anyone, especially a pilot, to blame them for mistaking anything for Venus and clouds, or an optical illusion. It makes me so angry when "authorities" abuse their power that way.

[@gdaycunt2001]

Especially a decorated world war II vet who was regarded as one of the best pilots just to have people that never experienced what he did and write off any possibilities is a joke and absolute scummy thing to do when another mans life was taken by such thing..

[@richardrogers156]

Seen something like that Oct 2 2021 in daytime with the sun in picture so can't say it's the sun outside Norwalk, Ohio.Seen a huge craft in early 80s on Zenobia road, Clarksfield, Ohio me and friend hid in a ditch.

[@vaclav_fejt]

I'm currently writing a loosely Mantell-based Doctor Who fanfic short story. I'm not using all of the known facts, but this video gave me some more ideas. :)