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This Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, collects US Air Force records from 1950 to 1959 on the movie film Nicholas Mariana shot at Great Falls, Montana on 15 August 1950. It includes the OSI interview report, letters about borrowing and copying the film, and a 1956 Douglas Aircraft analysis. Blue Book's own findings were not consistent: one letter lists the cause as unknown, while later memos conclude the objects were probably two F-94 jets.
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APCTN-4E4 MEMORANDUM FOR ASSISTANT DEPUTY. SCIENCE AND COMPONENTS SUBJECT: UFO Film 1. The film "UFO" referenced in the attached letter was produced by the Green-Rouse Studios and released in 1956. Major Dewey Fournet, Jr., Capt. Edward Ruppelt and Mr. Albert M. Chop all were hired as technical advisers, but none had connection with the Air Force in any official capacity at the time. All of the actors in the picture were professionals and no person connected with any of the cases depicted took part. 2. The film of cases incorporated as a part of this picture was obtained from the original owners. (The Tramonton Case) and Mr. (The N Case). The Air Force had no connection with the release of this film. 3. A short summary of the two cases follows: Time - 1130 Date = 15 August 1950 Place - Great Falls, Montana Mr. and his secretary were out to inspect a ball park near Great Falls, Montana when they sighted two objects in the sky which they could not identify. Mr. na took some film of the objects with his Revere turret type 16MM camera. The objects in this case were analyzed as two F-94 air- craft which were known to be in the area at the time. Simulated photos of aircraft made by an aircraft research firm in an independent and unsolicited analysis was strikingly similar to the film.
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