What happened on January 7?

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  Mantell UFO Incident UFOs

  The incident on January 7, 1948, in which Air Force fighter pilot Captain Thomas Mantell crashed and died while chasing a UFO over Kentucky. It was rumored that he was "shot down by a UFO," but he is thought to have blacked out from lack of oxygen after climbing too high.

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