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# Field Denies Saucer Report

Air Materiel Command officials at the Wright-Patterson AFB Thursday denied a report that they had confiscated colored motion pictures of two silver discs flying over a Great Falls, Mont., ball park.

"We do not have any such films here at Air Materley Command headquarters." a spokesman for the public information office said. He did not elaborate.

The report of the confiscation came from Nick Mariana, manager of the Great Falls baseball team in the Pioneer league.

MARIANA TOLD the Associated Press that he saw the discs flying over the hall field on Aug. 15, focused his camera and photographed them. He said they appear on the film for about three seconds. The films were turned over to the AMC Mariana reported, on request of a special investigator. He said he was told to release nothing further concerning the film.

The team manager said the discs appeared to be about 10... 000 feet high and were in sight for about 15 seconds.

"They were flying out of the north and going southeasterly," he said. "I filmed them until they disappeared from sight. They looked round and silvery and were moving together—not too fast.

"Two jets that flew over in another direction about the same time seemed to be going much faster."

# Washington Interested "Saucer Film" To A. F.

The Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson AFB will get the Great Falls, Mont., flying saucer movies Monday, but in all probability they won't keep them.

Indications are that the color films, taken by Nick Mariana, manager of the Great Falls baseball team, will be sent directly to Air Force headquarters in Washington for scrutiny.

Thursday AMC officials said they had "not" received the films. Friday, however, an intelligence officer from the Great Falls AFB told the Associated Press he had Mariana's films and was sending them to the Wright-Patterson base "today."

The films are expected to arrive in Dayton Monday.

Mariana took the pictures of the two silver discs over his ball park on Aug. 15. then turned them over to an Air Force investigator. He was told. Mariana reported, to say nothing concerning the pictures which show for about three seconds on the film.

At AMC headquarters, Friday. a spokesman said that while the Air Force's "Project Saucer" investigation had been dropped the

"Air Force is and will continue to be interested in and continuing to investigate all reports of astronomical phenomena."

# Dayton Daily News 10 October 1950

# Latest 'Saucer' Story Fails To Hold Water

The nation's latest flying saucer story came a cropper, Tuesday.

Air Materiel Command officials at the Wright-Patterson AFB, after viewing color motion pictures taken last Aug. 15 at a Great Falls, Mont., ball park said the film was too dark to distinguish any recognizeable objects.

The film, which during the past week had become the subject of widespread conjecture, will not be sent on to USAF Intelligence in Washington, but, if he wants it, will be returned to its owner, Nick Mariana, manager of the Great Falls baseball team.

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LAST WEEK Mariana revealed that he had taken the pictures of two silver discs over his ball park, then turned the film over to an Air Force intelligence offleer-Capt. John Byrnsen-of the Great Falls Air Force base.

The Great Falls officer forwarded the films to AMC intelligence officials last Friday. The films arrived at the Wright-Patterson base late Monday evening and were viewed immediately.

After viewing the films the AMC officials issued the following statement:

"The film is too dark to dis tinguish any recognizeable ob jects. For this reason it will not be sent on to Washington head quarters. The Air Force has no further interest in the film. The film will be returned to the owner, with thanks for his co operation, if he wants it back."