E-006200LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Great Falls Daylight Film Report (1950)
August 15, 1950Great Falls, Montana, United States
Hynek discusses a classic daylight photographic case from Great Falls in which motion-picture film recorded two point-like lights in a bright daytime sky. The Phase-2 source passage does not establish a stable hull shape, so ANOMALY preserves this as a filmed Daylight Disc-class report rather than inventing a physical craft morphology.
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“Hynek identifies the Great Falls case as a classic daylight photographic report from August 15, 1950, involving motion-picture images of two point-like lights in the bright daytime sky.”
SRC-002104 · Great Falls film discussion; uploaded PDF pp. 77-80
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CLAIM-693130reported
“Nick Mariana filmed two bright objects on 16 mm color film at Great Falls. Hall records disputes about missing early footage and notes that later photogrammetric analysis did not reach a definite identification.”
“Hynek's photographic-evidence discussion makes clear that even a case satisfying stronger photographic-provenance criteria raises evidential probability rather than establishing certainty or extraterrestrial origin.”
SRC-002107 · Photographs: evidential caveat for Nick Mariana Great Falls 16 mm Film Case; uploaded PDF pp. 161-162
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CLAIM-694020disputed
“Hall quotes an Air Force statement identifying the Great Falls film objects as F-94 aircraft, then cites the photographer and photogrammetric analysis as challenging that identification.”
SRC-002104 · Daylight Discs definition and loose use of disc terminology; uploaded PDF pp. 41-41 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-671008reported
“Hynek explains that the Daylight Disc label is applied rather loosely: oval or disc-like shapes predominate, but the observational category is not limited to one exact hull form.”
SRC-002104 · Daylight Disc category scope; uploaded PDF pp. 71-72
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CLAIM-676006reported
“Appendix 1 preserves Daylight Disc cases as selected daytime reports, including reports whose apparent shapes vary and do not always establish a literal disc hull.”
“Hynek's selected Daylight Disc examples involve 60 reporters, averaging about 4.8 observers per case with a median of four; he deliberately excludes single-observer reports from the selected prototype set.”
SRC-002104 · Wobble/tumble/falling-leaf motion; uploaded PDF pp. 75-77
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CLAIM-671013reported
“In a Three Hills, Alberta example, Hynek reports that two farmers described an object like a snubbed dill pickle with a greenish-blue glow; truck drivers were also reported to have seen it, and the object was described as silent while a more distant airplane remained audible.”
SRC-002104 · Three Hills, Alberta example; uploaded PDF pp. 73-75
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CLAIM-671017reported
“Hynek describes a General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory report in which three research engineers tracking a 79-foot balloon near 73,000 feet with a theodolite noticed a white smoke or vapor trail lower in the sky, followed an object traveling horizontally for roughly thirty seconds, then saw it dive nearly vertically while glowing intermittently.”
“Hynek discusses reports of smooth departures and very rapid acceleration, sometimes without a reported sonic boom, but says the available data are insufficient for a definitive physical judgment.”
SRC-002104 · Acceleration, sonic-boom and physical-interpretation caveat; uploaded PDF pp. 75-77
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CLAIM-671014reported
“Hynek says a purported Daylight Disc photograph should not be taken seriously unless a reputable photographer also visually saw the object, the original negatives and camera are available, and the owner is willing to testify under oath; he allows that multiple independent photographs could relax the final criterion.”
SRC-002104 · Photographic evidence criteria; uploaded PDF pp. 77-79
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CLAIM-671018reported
“Hynek notes that nearby radar was inoperative and two F-86 aircraft did not obtain a useful correlation; Blue Book nevertheless retained the report as unidentified.”
SRC-002105 · Aircraft count; book pp. 61-64 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-681021reported
“The remaining Daylight Disc IFOs comprised five meteors, two observations of Venus, and one each involving lenticular clouds, ordinary cloud, birds, a sunrise effect, power-line fixtures, a physiological visual disorder, and kite wire.”
“Hendry reports that balloons were usually described as round, oval, or teardrop-shaped, white or silver, slow-moving or hovering, and visible for fifteen minutes to an hour or longer, with changing high-altitude winds and illumination producing apparent climbs, descents, and color changes.”
SRC-002105 · Balloon appearance, motion, duration and confirmation; book pp. 57-61 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-681020reported
“Aircraft viewed edge-on or in glare were reported as domed discs, oblongs, globes, triangles, eggs, or other apparently wingless shapes; ordinary turns and climbs could appear abrupt along the witness line of sight.”
SRC-002105 · Edge-on aircraft shapes and apparent maneuvers; book pp. 61-64 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-681022reported
“A family driving past Camp Pendleton interpreted power-line marker spheres as ten to fifteen round objects in formation because the wires were invisible against distant hills and the car's motion supplied apparent horizontal flight.”
SRC-002105 · Camp Pendleton power-line marker case; book pp. 66-66 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-681023reported
“On September 13, 1976, thirteen adults including a police officer in Bloomington, Indiana, reported an elongated aluminum object glowing centrally with edge lights; follow-up identified sunlight reflecting from kite wire between trees.”
“Hendry recorded only one physiologically generated visual case among 1,158 IFOs and emphasized that witnesses almost always observed some external target.”
SRC-002105 · Physiological visual case frequency and external-stimulus caveat; book pp. 67-67 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLAIM-683020reported
“Hendry regards Daylight Disc reports as a comparatively conservative and potentially more physical foundation because daylight can provide better shape and motion information, while still emphasizing aircraft, balloon, distance, and single-witness alternatives.”
“Hall groups recurrent Air Force explanation styles under the labels “counter-to-fact,” “shotgun,” and “zigzag,” with the latter describing explanations that change over time.”
SRC-002107 · NICAP taxonomy of counter-to-fact, shotgun and zigzag explanations; uploaded PDF pp. 201-201
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CLAIM-694017disputed
“Hall contrasts Air Force statements that no UFO reports were withheld with AFR 200-2/JANAP release restrictions and with specific case correspondence cited in Section IX.”
SRC-002107 · Nothing withheld statements and NICAP rebuttals; uploaded PDF pp. 201-204
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CLAIM-694018disputed
“Hall contrasts Air Force correspondence minimizing or denying knowledge of the 1948 Estimate of the Situation with Ruppelt's description and Dewey Fournet's statement confirming that an early intelligence summary existed.”
SRC-002107 · 1948 document dispute and Fournet statement; uploaded PDF pp. 203-205
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CLAIM-694041reported
“Hall reproduces Air Force news release 1108-57 of November 15, 1957, which selected five cases from the wave for conventional/hoax explanations: Levelland, James Stokes at White Sands/Orogrande, a Coast Guard cutter case, White Sands Army patrol sightings, and Reinhold Schmidt at Kearney.”