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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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( NQ USA7 3 Nov 52 CO 1701 AT WO GREAT TALLS AFB MONT GFOIN-10-2115 1s CAF IN 80698 dtd (30 OCT 52) FROM APOXII Reference our AFOIE 50862 dtd 23 Oct 52 and your CFOIE-10-2115 dtd 29 Oct 53. Movie film received this date. However, it is torn at one point about one foot from beginning and has a few stripped sprocket holes in same vicinity. Splice will result in loss of one frame. In view of admonition by Mariana re further deletion of frames from reel desire to know if film was in this condition when obtained from Mariana and, if so, did receipt given him reflect this? In response reply to AFOIE-212. DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS. DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10 UNCLASSIFIED Naj Dewey J. Tournet, Jr. DONALD E. BEEBE, Captain, USA7 Executive, Topical Division Deputy Director for Estimates Directorate of Intelligence. DC3/0
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