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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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AIRCRAFT COMPANY. Inc. SANTA MONICA DIVISION SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA April 16,1956 Brig. Gen. Harold E. Watson Commander, ATIC Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio Dear General Watson: Enclosed is a report of an analysis of the "Montana" film of Unidentified Flying Objects photographed by Nicholas Mariana in August 1950. This report was prepared by the Douglas Aircraft Company's Missiles Engineering Department Research Section, incidental to a study of publications dealing with unconventional propulsion schemes, under the direction of Dr. W. B. Klemperer. It is being submitted for your perusal in case it might be of interest to you in connection with Project Blue Book as a supplement to such information as has already been compiled. The film and necessary information for this analysis were furnished by the Green-Rouse Studios who will soon release a documentary film on UFO's. Green-Rouse Studios have requested that copies of the present report be made available to them by April 22, 1956. If your command has no objection to the release of our analysis or sections thereof, we are quite willing, in view of their full cooperation, that they have the desired copies. It would be greatly appreciated if your approval or disapproval of the release of the material to them be sent to us prior to April 22, if necessary by telephone or by teletype. Sincerely, Allly Petchlen WBK:ge Vice President Public Relations Enclosure: Noted
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