This Air Force correspondence file follows film-analysis requests, witness statements, interservice coordination and physical-evidence inquiries during 1952. It includes Newhouse’s explicit limits on estimating the Tremonton objects, the effort to recover a misplaced Mariana film copy, and FBI examination of a reportedly burned cap. Questions and proposed explanations remain distinct from established identifications.
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DOW-UAP-D105, U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952Department of War253 pagesSep 18, 2026RELEASE-06-FILE-013-DOW-UAP-D105-U-S-AIR-FORCE-FLYING-DISCS-FILE-1952
The Montana UFO film was shot on August 15, 1950, in Great Falls, Montana, by baseball team manager Nick Mariana. He and his secretary witnessed two bright silvery disks that appeared to stop or hover before he grabbed his 16mm camera. Mariana filmed the rotating disk-shaped objects for about 16 seconds as they moved across the sky. After he stopped recording, two F-94 jets flew over. The Air Force initially claimed the objects were sun reflections from the two jets but after further analysis...

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