
"About 20 minutes later they radioed back they were 20,000 feet high and the saucer was still above them," a colonel told the newspaper. The gleaming object was easily visible from Fort Knox, and officers at the post radioed to three planes flying overhead to see if they could catch the object, which they thought might be a flying disk, according to a Courier Journal report the following day. Maysville sits on the Ohio River and is 66 miles northeast of Lexington. But reports that day also came in from Irvington - roughly 180 miles from Maysville - and Owensboro - more than 240 miles away - of a westbound circular object in the sky, according to the network.

7, 1948, Fort Knox received a report from the Kentucky Highway Patrol of an unusual aerial object near Maysville, according to a case summary by the Mutual UFO Network. Mantell, a 25-year-old Kentucky National Guard pilot. One of the earliest UFO reports happened in Kentucky, and it was among the most publicized because it ended in the death of Capt. In anticipation of the government report's release, The Courier Journal looked back at well-known UFO reports in Kentucky spanning decades. Here are five of those: Fatal air chase: Fort Knox, 1948 "Most people walk around the world careened from one spot to another and don't take the time to look up." "If you look up, you may see things," Gaunt said. In 2020 alone, more than 80 Kentucky cases were reported to and investigated by MUFON, according to its online database.
