Mariana recorded the hovering object for 16 seconds on his 16mm camera that could not record sound.
Nick Mariana was inspecting the Legion Stadium baseball field when he saw a bright flash followed by two silvery objects with rotating bands. Image credit: USGS Seamless Viewer via Wikimedia But Mariana refuted the claim by alleging that the initial frames were missing from the examined video. After examination of the video, it was claimed that the objects were a reflection of two F-94s that were known to be flying at the time of the incident over the Falls. He saw and recorded two silvery objects with rotating bands flying over the Great Falls. Nick Mariana recorded the first-ever footage of an unidentified flying object on 15 August 1950 at the Legion Stadium baseball field.