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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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SUBJECT: UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT. With reference to background information as regards he is a graduate of Montana State University, 1938, with a BA in journalism. He was born in Miles City, Montana, in 1912, went to Montana State University in 1935 and has, since graduation from that school, resided in Helena from 1940 to 1941 and from 1941 until the present at Great Falls. During the war, Mr. a served in the Army Air Forces from June 1943 to October 1945, attaining the rank of Corporal and was editor of a newspaper, Great Falls Air Force Base, at Great Falls, Montana. Subject has been married for a period of ten years and has one child, a daughter, three years of age. Presently Mr. is employed as general manager of the Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana, and also as a radio sports commentator and radio announcer of sporting events. He enjoys an excellent reputation in the local community and is regarded as a reliable, trustworthy and honest individual. 5. Prior to concluding the interview with Mr. Mariana, he was advised that the film was being forwarded to the Air Material Command because of that agency's interest in anything which would contribute to its fund of technical intelligence data. 1 Incl. Summary of Information per provisions of Air Intelligence Requirements Memo No. 4. JOHN P. BRYNILDSEN JOHN P. BRYNILDSEN. Captain, USAF District Commander DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS DOD DIR 6200.10
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