Great Falls (Mariana) UFO Film

TopicMedia Work (Unclassified)

Great Falls (Mariana) UFO Film

TopicMedia Work (Unclassified)

One of the first films of an alleged UFO. Nick Mariana filmed two bright objects over Great Falls, Montana, on 15 August 1950; the footage was later studied by Project Blue Book.

Great Falls, Montana, USA

One of the first films of an alleged UFO. Nick Mariana filmed two bright objects over Great Falls, Montana, on 15 August 1950; the footage was later studied by Project Blue Book.

Great Falls, Montana, USA

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Aug 8

Probed ingest of: UAP Tranche 5: If You Think There’s Nothing Here, Look Again

independentRichard Dolan

Aug 8

The Montana and Utah UFO films have been public for more than 70 years.

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Jul 12

The Montana UFO Film

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Aug 8

Probed ingest of: UAP Tranche 5: If You Think There’s Nothing Here, Look Again

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The Montana and Utah UFO films have been public for more than 70 years. The data behind them wasn’t. Until now. Utah sequence: 2,457 mph. Nearly 965 g. Official conclusion: inconsistent with natural phenomena or any known aerospace technology. https://t.co/VujndkdVFi

Preview of DOW-UAP-D098, Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953

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DOW-UAP-D098, Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953

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A 1953 Naval Photographic Interpretation Center progress report analyzes motion-picture footage recorded in Utah and Montana in 1952. It documents photogrammetric and densitometric methods, describes blue-white disk-like images, and reports calculated motion while retaining assumptions and limits in the analysis.

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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...