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Pentagon – release all your UFO gun camera videos!

The American people own them.

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It's not cheesy looking at all.

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Damn!

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Sep 19·edited Sep 19

Sorry, the cowboy in the doc is Tony Franciosa in “A Man Called Gannon”, about 5 minutes before the end.

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One other thing that was interesting, albeit difficult to make any sense of, was the brief clip taken from an aircraft. It's preceded by a title card which reads, in part, "29 JULY '52 ALERT" -- which coincides with the Washington Nationals events. Reel 1 of "USAF UFO sightings, California"

I don't see anything remarkable in the very brief film, though. Just another aircraft.

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The closeup of the bird, followed by a long shot of more of them, in reel 2 of "USAF UFO sightings, California" is from the report (Navy or Air Force, i can't recall) on the Tremonton film. These were included as a comparison so as to buttress their conclusion that birds could be ruled out, no matter how far away the objects captured by Newhouse were at the time. (They'd based that on careful measurements, of course, not a simple visual comparison. The birds were for the benefit of those less informed about their optical measurements.)

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Thanks for the tip on that Atlas film. I'd not gone through all of the links at NARA.

"Its contrail disappears and the thing reverses course – it heads in the opposite direction of the Atlas. For more than two minutes, the camera sticks with it until the object recedes into oblivion."

That's not how i see it. It looks as though the shrinking contrail/plasma trail is due to the smaller item (the warhead?) moving further away from the camera, and the apparent change in direction is due to the camera itself having shifted its framing of the target.

I believe the anomaly in this film is the much smaller bright object that is pacing the warhead (?) during that latter ~2 minutes. There is a fair bit of noise but there's clearly something else -- with no trail -- above that second object.

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I see what you're saying. The little blip that blinks on at about the 4:43 mark, fades, then blinks on again briefly at 6:16 before going dark. OK. I saw that, but my eye was tracking what seemed like the nose cone, which I thought it was, until it lost its tail and shifted to reverse. If that movement is for-sure from the camera, not the target, then yeah, the focus then shifts back to the little bright object as the UFO. Seems a bit underwhelming to me, but I guess the analysts saw something I missed.

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They'd have known precisely what to expect, and that smaller light without a trail sure looks like something anomalous if one is expecting just the presumptive warhead.

One might assume that it's a decoy but there are two problems with that. It's likely far too early in the flight for a decoy to deploy, given the booster has only just burned up. And whomever set this clip aside as something anomalous would have known to a certainty whether there was one at this point.

That apparent change of direction of the warhead looks a lot like what i've seen with other rocket flights as the target streams further away from the camera. Coupled with a sudden shift of the camera's framing it does appear that the thing suddenly changes direction but i think it's mundane.

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I think the cowboy is the late Dale Robertson.

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Tony Franciosa in “A Man Called Gannon”, about 5 minutes before the end.

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Thank-you.

It was driving me crazy.

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I think you may be correct. I'm not a fan of Westerns but it appears to be him. It's the clip that i recall seeing before, in any case.

There's a pretty good one in the film Bedazzled (the original by Stanley Dorner) when Dudley Moore and Peter Cook are on the tower using a telescope. I'm 95% certain it's not an aircraft.

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