[Music] the tour on September 23rd 1974 reporters and members of Congress arrived at Fort Knox by Army bus at the entrance to gold vault Road a stark sign issued to command halt State your business in loudspeaker do not enter without permission for the first time in history Outsiders were about to step inside the nation's most Secure Vault previously the only known public figure to enter had been Franklin D Roosevelt in 1943 even former presidents had been denied access but this was not an openhouse event it was damage control a Washington attorney DrPeter beer had ignited a firestorm alleging that the US government had secretly removed billions in gold from Fort Knox the theory was fueled by the absence of independent Audits and a long-standing refusal to allow inspections upon mounting public pressure the treasury Department relented organizing a carefully controlled tour of the facility inside the Fortress visitors passed through metal detectors closely watched by armed guards with submachine guns the vault door a 22-ton slab of Steel required two officials to unlock it each turning separate secret combinations with a heavy thk the door swung open revealing a staggering sight 36,2 36 gold bars stacked floor to ceiling in a vault measuring 8 ft High 6 ft wide and 12 ft deep in total they represented roughly 14. 5 million troy ounces worth billions of dollars in 1974 however it was only a fraction of what the facility claimed to hold many of the bars bore the same Purity markings as gold coins confiscated during the government's 1930s recall ordinary Americans had been forced to surrender their gold which was now reforged and locked away behind impen trouble doors treasury officials hoping to silence doubts declared Victory there it is announced Mary Brooks director of the US Mint the message was clear the gold is here and the rumors are false but not everyone was convinced representative John rousel of California a skeptic raised a persistent rumor what about the Escape tunnel allegations had long circulated that a secret passage had been used to smuggle gold out of the Vault officials hesitated before acknowledging its existence they insisted the tunnel was a safety feature not an Escape Route Under Pressure they agreed to open it when the seal was broken visitors found only a narrow crawl space leading to another section of the depository not an exit there was no sign of smuggled gold the tour ended with a demonstration a single gold bar was randomly selected weighed and confirmed as genuine cameras flash reporters scribbled notes treasury officials hoped spectacle would end the controversy yet doubts lingered the visit had been carefully staged allowing access only to a fraction of the facili contents some speculated that gold had been positioned specifically for the tour as the massive doors swung shut once more the question remained unanswered had America really seen all there was to see you want to know one fact about the usually mysterious dark five I'm a big cyclist and I always listen to music when I ride that's why I partnered with raycon to sponsor this video last year I dropped my really expensive earbuds four times while writing I know the exact number it freaked me out every time so when I tried the rayons 3day earbuds black of course I was hooked they sound great stay in place the best part is that you won't need to break into Fort Knocks to afford a pair especially when you use the link by raycon. com Dark5 for 20% off these everyday earbuds live up to their name they have noise isolation to block distractions when I work but also awareness mode so I can hear traffic when I'm riding they're sweat resistant and with 32-hour battery life I can go for 2 weeks of daily rides without charging and if I ever forget just 10 minutes plugged in gives me 990 minutes of battery get premium sound at half the price of other top brands go to by ron.
com Dark5 for 20% off the bestselling everyday earbuds click the link in the description to support the channel and grab the deal brought to you by raycon The Mantel incident the tower at godman field spotted at first suspended High over Fort Knox the object hovered massive and unmoving Witnesses grasped for comparisons an ice cream cone a parachute a teardrop round at one end tapering to a point it was January 7th 1948 and reports of the strange craft had been rolling in for hours from across the state by the time the call went out to Captain Thomas Manel the slow moving object was directly over Fort Knox and the Air Force wanted answers Manel a decorated World War II pilot was leading a formation of four P-51 Mustangs from maretta Georgia to stand oford field in Louisville at 2:45 p. m. he and two wingmen broke formation banking toward the unknown object what happened next would become one of the most infamous UFO incidents in American history at 15,000 ft Manel made first visual Contact radio to the tower quote the object is directly ahead of me and above me now moving at about half my speed by 22,000 ft his two- wingman had turned back neither had oxygen equipment mantel however pressed on at 3:15 p.
m. he radioed a chilling update quote it appears metallic and of tremendous size I'm still climbing by 3:30 p. m.
he vanished from radio contact his last clear transmission was a proposal to climb to 25,000 ft before turning back a few garbled messages followed then silence civilians near Frankton Kentucky spotted the fighter plane spiraling downward sometime around 4:45 p. m. it hit the ground in a violent nose dive shedding debris across a mile wide stretch of Farmland when authorities arrived mantel's seat belt was shredded his body had been ejected from the wreckage and most oddly his watch had stopped at 3:18 p.
m. near the start of his encounter news headlines exploded with speculation some claimed his plane disintegrated midair others reported his body was riddled with bullets and even that an energy weapon from an alien craft had shot him down the US Air Force scrambled for an explanation at first they suggested mantel had mistaken Venus for a UFO but astronomers dismissed the idea the planet wasn't visible in daylight years later Project Blue Book proposed a new Theory Nel had been chasing a Skyhook balloon a top secret Navy surveillance project these 600 foot tall balloons hovered at 60,000 ft reflecting sunlight like a metallic craft there was only one problem no records confirm a Skyhook balloon over Kentucky that day whether mantel traced a classified military balloon or something truly unknown his final moments remain a mystery experts say hypoxia may have led him decline too high blacking out before his plane plummeted to Earth but what he saw before losing Consciousness what compelled him to keep climbing died with him some reports claim manel's final words included a cryptic detail that he saw beings inside the craft no official record confirms this a plaque in Franklin Kentucky marked the sight of Mel's crash it simply reads quote he gave his life in defense of his country what he was defending from however remains a question [Music] unanswered and it's [Laughter] gone a single meme was all it took for Elon Musk to revive a decades old conspiracy is the gold supposedly stored in Fort Knox really there the military installation established in 1937 was designed to safeguard America's gold reserves following the gold Reserve Act of 1934 by 1941 Fort Knox held 649 million ounces more than anywhere else in the world adjusted for inflation that would be worth over $1.
