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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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# 1701ST AIR TRANSPORT WING CONTINENTAL DIVISION, MATS GREAT FALLS AIR FORCE BASE, MONTANA SUBJECT: Project Blue Book TO: Commanding General Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 1. In compliance with your message AFOIN-ATIIA-12-10-Z, dated 22 December 1952, Mr. was interrogated by Lt. Peter Marquez, Wing Operations and Training Office, this station. ## 2. Mr. his version of the incident is as follows: On about the 5th or 15th of August 1950, I, as manager of the Electrics, a local baseball team, walked to the grandstand of the local stadium here in Great Falls, Montana. It was approximately 1130 AM and my purpose was to check the direction of the wind in preparation for the afternoon's game. Looking toward the smoke stack to see in which direction the wind was blowing the smoke, I saw two saucer shaped, very bright objects completely motionless and in direct line with the smoke stack. I was of the opinion that they were aircraft, but after a few seconds of a still motionless view, I decided that they could not be aircraft. I immediately ran to my car, which was parked adjacent to the stadium (approximately 50 Ft.) to get my movie camera. At the same time I shouted for my secretary, and her independent description of these two objects is identical to mine. At the time I thought there might have been a whistling noise, but of that I am not certain. There was no visible exhaust or fire and the objects seemed like two new dimes glistening in the sun. I did not take time to return to the exact spot from where I had originally noticed these objects. I prepared my camera and started taking pictures, from a point immediately adjacent to my car. By this time, approximately five or eight seconds had elapsed since I had run to my car. The two objects were again motionless, but at a point to the left of the smoke stack. It was at this point that I first filmed these two objects. I repeat, they were not covering any distance; that is, they were motionless, but an occasional vibration seemed to momentarily tilt them, after which they would instantly correct their level plane to its seemingly balanced position. The two objects made an abrupt flight in an OWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
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