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thank you

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my name is Nick Marianna for the past

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six years I've been the general manager

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of a minor league baseball club called

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the electrics

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we play out of Great Falls Montana and

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are a farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers

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on August 15 1950 at Legion ballpark in

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Great Falls Montana after a couple of

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hours in the clubhouse office I went up

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into the grandstand to call the

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groundskeeper

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as I reached the top of the stairway I

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glanced northward to the tall Anaconda

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Copper company smokestack to check the

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direction of the wind from the white

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smoke force of habit I suppose because

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our outfielders use it as an indicator

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on defensive play

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as I looked up I saw two silvery objects

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moving swiftly out of the northwest

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they appeared to be moving directly

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south

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the objects were very bright and about

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ten thousand feet in the air

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they appear to be of a bright shiny

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metal like polished silver

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both were the same size and were

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traveling at the same rate of speed

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which was much slower than the Jets

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which shot by shortly after I filmed the

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discs suddenly they stopped

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it was then I remembered the camera in

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the glove compartment of my car

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I raced downstairs yelling for my

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secretary Miss Virginia Ronnie the

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distance from the top of the stairway to

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my car is about 60 feet and I must have

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made that in about six jumps

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I asked my secretary if she saw anything

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and she said yes two silvery spheres

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I unlocked the glove compartment of my

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car took out the camera turned the

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telephoto lens on the turret into

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position set the camera at F-22 picked

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up the objects in the viewfinder and

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pressed the trigger

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the discs appeared to be spinning like

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the top and were about 50 feet across

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and about 50 yards apart

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I could not see any exhaust wings or any

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kind of fuselage

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there was no cabin

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no odor no sound except I thought I

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heard a whooshing sound when I first saw

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them

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as the film clicked through the camera

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I could see the objects moving Southeast

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behind the General Mills grain building

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and the black water tank directly south

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of the ballpark

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I filmed the objects until they

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disappeared into the blue sky behind the

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this is the Montana film projected

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exactly as it was photographed the

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objects are moving against a 25 to 28

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this is the film in double frame or slow

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motion

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a slight bounce in the movement of the

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object as well as the towers perceptible

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this is due to the handheld camera

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the film analyzed frame by frame shows

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the movement of the objects to be

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we will now vary the action and size of

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the objects and also stop the action

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we have just made a jump cut in the film

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to an enlarged size and reverse the

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you are now seeing the objects exactly

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as they were photographed but from a

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analysis reveals that the objects are

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not balloons nor any kind of known

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the images are very different from those

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produced by any kind of birds at any

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the shape brightness speed rectilinear

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path steady motion and separation rule

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out various forms of optical atmospheric

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comprehensive analysis has eliminated

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meteors and other known natural