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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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RA41 ACTION PF034 2. AT! . TYEO57 3 . e . file TD53 UNCASSIFIED JEPHQ B028 RR JWPQG JEDWP 222 DE JEHQ 392A R.212219Z.ZNJ FM HQ USAF WASHDC TO JWPQG/CO 1701 AT WG GREAT FALLS AFB MOT INFO JEDWP/CHIEF ATIC WPAB OHIO UNCLASSIFIED FROM CLN AFOI 50862 REF YOUR MSG GFOPP-10- 1027 DTD 11 OCT 52. WE HAVE ITTN PERSONAL LETTER TO MR. BATIG OUR DESIR TO BORROW 16 MM MOVIE OF FLYING OBJECTS TAKN 15 AUG 50 OVER GRET FALLS SINCEOUR COPY THIS FILM WAS INADVERTENLY LOST AND WE NOW EQUIR IT FOR COMPARISON WITH RECENT MOVIES AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS. INFORMED HIM THAT AN OFFICER YOUR BASE WOULD CONTACT HIM PERONALLY AND GIVE HIM LOAN RECEIPT FO FILM IF HT IS WILLING TO LEND IT TO US. IF BALKY HE CAN BE TOLD FOR SAKEOF PERSUASIO THAT WE COSIDER HIS FIL TO BE VERY PERTINENT TO CURRENT FLYOB ANALYSIS. INFORMHIM FILM WILL BE RETURNED AT EARLIET PRACTICABLE DATE. REQUEST THIS ACTON BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELYSINCE LETTE SHOULD HAVE REACHED HIM BY NOW. AIR MAIL FILM THIS HQ ATTN AFOIN-2A2. IN RESPONS REPLY TO AFOIN-2A2. 21/2301Z OCT JEPHQ UNCLASSIFIED 2/0ct . Cy - 1
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