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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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# UNCLASSIFIED PB/PS 10-52 (theclassified) Request for Reproduction Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB Dayton, Ohio Dept of the AF Hq USAF - AFCIN-1B1 Capt St1dd/bb/76036 1. It is requested that the enclosed film be reproduced according to re- requirements as listed below. It is further requested that this reproduction be accomplished with ten (10) days or as soon thereafter as possible. It is extremely urgent that this reproduction be made available to the Director of Intelligence. 2. It is requested that two (2) color duplicates and one (1) black and white print, exclusive of portion with sound track which is spliced to the end of the film, be reproduced. The loose (unspliced) portion of seventeen (17) frames belongs at the end of the footage having a deep blue background and no sound track. The last frame of this loose portion is immediately adjacent to the splice with the broken frame having the sound track. 3. If at all possible, it is requested that the stripped sprocket holes in the loose portion of the original be repaired to make it possible to run this part along with the remainder of the film without malunction. 4. Utmost care should be exercised in processing this film to avoid further damage. It is requested that the original be cleaned as carefully as possible prior to duplication. 5. This is the film referred to by It. Col. William A. Adams in telephone conversation with ATIC this date. 1 Incl Roll of film BURTON R. CRINYER Major, USAP Chief, Processing Branch Dissemination Control Division DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
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