U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952

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6 October 1950
SUBJECT:
UNCONVE1d'IONAL AIRCRAFT
TO:
District Commander
5th District Office of Special Investigations
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
1. Transmitted under separate cover is approximately fifteen
feet of moving picture film taken by Mr. Nicholas Mariana, of 2919
First Avenue North, Great Falls, Montana, who is general manager
of the Great Falls Baseball Club.
2. Mr. Mariana made these pictures on 15 August 1950 between
the hours of 11:25 and ll:30 A. M., at Great Falls, Montana.
On
interview, he stated that he first fighted the objects while standing
in the gx·andstand of the ball park located at 26th Street and Eleventh
Avenue North, Great Falls, Montana, and that he saw two bright disc
shaped objects proceeding in a southerly direction at an alti tude
of approximately ten thousand feet and at a distance of about three­
quarters of a mile in a westerly direction, fr.:>m the observer•s view­
point. Mr. Mariana then stated that he ran downstairs and outside
to his car from which he obtained his camera and made the pictures
shown in the film.
From the time of first sighting to the
completion of taking of the pictures, Mr. Mariana estimated con­
awned approximately twenty seconds. At the time of his taking
the pictures, a Miss Virginia Raunig, l.12 Second Avenue North,
Great Falls, Montana, who is anployed as his secretary, was a
witness.
3. The water tower in instant pictures is located approximately
seven hundred feet in a southwesterl y direction from the point at
which Mr. Mariana stood when taking the pictures and the tower is
approximately one hundred seventy- five feet in height.
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