Mariana UFO incident

A segment from the 1956 film UFO, which includes footage of the incident, testimony from Nick Mariana, and an analysis by Robert M.L. Baker

The Mariana UFO incident occurred in August, 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. The sighting, filmed by local baseball coach Nick Mariana, is believed to be among the first ever motion picture footage of what came to be called an unidentified flying object (UFO). The U.S. Air Force, after a short investigation, concluded that What Mariana had actually filmed were the reflections of two F-94 jet fighters, a claim that the Air Force would later retract.