Destroyed Chasing Flying Saucer." This was Volume I of "The
Classics," the Mantell Incident.

At one-fifteen on that afternoon the control tower operators at
Godman AFB, outside Louisville, Kentucky, received a telephone call
from the Kentucky State Highway Patrol. The patrol wanted to know if
Godman Tower knew anything about any unusual aircraft in the
vicinity. Several people from Maysville, Kentucky, a small town 80
miles east of Louisville, had reported seeing a strange aircraft.
Godman knew that they had nothing in the vicinity so they called
Flight Service at Wright-Patterson AFB. In a few minutes Flight
Service called back. Their air Traffic control board showed no
flights in the area. About twenty minutes later the state police
called again. This time people from the towns of Owensboro and
Irvington, Kentucky, west of Louisville, were reporting a strange
craft. The report from these two towns was a little more complete.
The townspeople had described the object to the state police as being
"circular, about 250 to 300 feet in diameter," and moving westward at
a "pretty good clip." Godman Tower checked Flight Service again.
Nothing. All this time the tower operators had been looking for the
reported object. They theorized that since the UFO had had to pass
north of Godman to get from Maysville to Owensboro it might come back.

At one forty-five they saw it, or something like it. Later, in his
official report, the assistant tower operator said that he had seen
the object for several minutes before he called his chiefs attention
to it. He said that he had been reluctant to "make a flying saucer
report." As soon as the two men in the tower had assured themselves
that the UFO they saw was not an airplane or a weather balloon, they
called Flight Operations. They wanted the operations officer to see