DOW-UAP-D098, Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953

DOW-UAP-D098, Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953 is a declassified Archival Record from Department of War. The record is dated 1950, was released in Release 05 on 2026-08-07 under the PURSUE initiative, and contains 1 file connected to Montana & Utah, USA.

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 process, assumptions that constrained its confidence level, tentative conclusions, and recommendations for future research. The Center assessed, generally, that the objects depicted in the film demonstrated characteristics that were inconsistent with those of natural phenomena or commonly known aerospace technologies.