"Eye In The Sky" by Dewey Edwards

I picked up a copy of Dewey Edwards "Eye In The Sky" while at the wonderful Bell Witch Festival event at the end of October.  I have picked up and mentioned some of his other books here.
 

It was great meeting Dewey in Adams and chatting with him about various bits of strangeness in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Anyway, in this volume, Dewey gives a lot of information on the 1948 Mantell Incident.  In fact, probably half of the book's 270 pages is about the legendary Western Kentucky UFO event.  Giving the book a ton of cred is the fact that a couple of Mantell family members intro this one!

Dewey has hunted down a lot of early newspaper accounts and interviews about the strange plane crash and death.  This might be a one stop book if you are interested.

This is a fascinating case...  and it is not mentioned in the same circles as some of the more well known cases, but it should be.  Just months after the famous Roswell Incident, a pilot, Captain Thomas Mantell, chases a UFO and ends up dead.

A man in the Scott Air Force Base Operations Room reported that Mantell's last words concerned seeing people in the craft.  One pilot suggests that Mantel actually collided with the object, or that it knocked him and his plane out of the air.

The official explanations are the usual ones.... a balloon, the planet Venus, etc.

Dewey's book has a lot of articles from the time of the crash and information from witnesses and others close to the case.

Edwards devotes the rest of the book to some of the more interesting and well known UFO events like Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, etc.  He also includes some more obscure reports, including a couple from his own family members.

I really like the way Dewey writes and collects information.  I highly recommend all of the books of his I have read so far.....