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Mariana UFO Film

DATE15 Aug 1950
LOCAL TIME11:30 AM
LOCATIONGreat Falls, Montana, USA, United States
COORDINATES47.43°N, 111.17°W

Nick Mariana, general manager of the Great Falls Electrics baseball team, filmed two bright silvery rotating objects flying over Great Falls using a 16mm movie camera. This is considered among the first motion picture footage of a UFO. The original film resides in the US National Archives.

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Photographic / visual media record

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