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Project Blue Book: The Thomas Mantell Case — 7 January 1948

On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of…

February 1, 2022

In-Flight Breakup During Test Flight Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, N339SS Near Koehn Dry Lake, California October 31, 2014

Background This report discusses the October 31, 2014, crash involving the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) reusable suborbital rocket, N339SS, which was operated…

November 15, 2020

Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Website Outage, January 13, 2017

Background On January 13, 2017, Tamara Keith of KRWG/NPR reported the following: The website at the Office of Government Ethics…

April 6, 2017

Collision between USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans, March 20, 2009

Background The USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision was a collision between the United States Navy Los Angeles-class submarine…

February 28, 2015

USS San Francisco (SSN-711) Crash, January 2005

Background On 8 January 2005 at 02:43 GMT, San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 675 kilometers (364 Nautical…

February 28, 2015