DOW-UAP-D098, Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953
This file contains a memorandum relating to the U.S. Naval Photographic Interpretation Center’s assessment of two films allegedly depicting unidentified airborne objects, captured in Montana and Utah in 1950 and 1952, respectively. The file documents the Center’s analytic...
Source details
- Media type
- document
- Archive path
- Release_5/DOW-UAP-D098_Film-Analysis-of-Unidentified-Objects_1953.pdf
- Source agency
- Department of War
- Event date
- 1950, 1952
- Location
- Montana, Utah
- Release date
- 8/7/26
- Last updated
- 2026-08-05
- Source file
- Open source file
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- C49 All Releases Companion Map and Disclosure Bridge
A cross-release disclosure guide connecting information control, unresolved encounters, historical assessment disputes, AAWSAP research and the evidence still needed.
Open analysis in viewer - C101 Release 5 Companion Map and Disclosure Bridge
Interpretive reconstruction - not source evidence. This navigation plate combines the release's historical-paper, radar/film-analysis, triangle-witness, and modern sensor layers. No pictured page, radar display, triangle, or thermal monitor is a...
Open analysis in viewer - C102 Release 5 Historical Intelligence and Scientific Analysis
D099 page 3 describes reports ranging from fireballs with tails to shiny cigar-shaped objects, with wildly varying altitude and speed estimates. It notes that most witnesses were untrained and that no recovered fragment exceeded ambiguous nonmetallic slag.
Open analysis in viewer - C110 D098 Utah and Montana Film Analysis Case File
The 1953 Naval Photographic Interpretation Center report is a serious early attempt to turn the 1950 Montana and July 2, 1952 Utah films into measurable evidence. Its analysts used stop-frame projection, position overlays, densitometry, terrestrial...
Open analysis in viewer - C112 Release 6 Companion Map and Reading Guide
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Open analysis in viewer - C113 Tremonton Film Provenance and Competing Assessments
Release 6 makes Tremonton a comparison of conflicting assessments and film provenance, rather than a fresh independent confirmation of the dramatic kinematics in Release 5. The Navy analysis and later Air Force bird interpretation belong in the same case...
Open analysis in viewer - C124 Release 6 Cross Release Synthesis and Evidence Gaps
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