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KOAT records a surviving witness memory of the Farmington Armada

KOAT's 2015 report pairs Tommy Lee Brown's childhood recollection with researcher David Marler's reconstruction and images of the contemporary newspaper record.

KOAT revisited the Farmington episode 65 years later and interviewed resident Tommy Lee Brown, who said he remembered numerous objects in the sky when he was a child. The broadcast also featured researcher David Marler discussing the scale of the newspaper record.

The source contributes a named memory and visual access to historical headlines. It does not supply an original 1950 camera file or independent measurement, so the interview is best used to understand witness memory and local historical continuity.

The locally saved case image comes from this KOAT report and shows a newspaper headline, not an aerial object. That distinction is retained on the case page so historical documentation is not presented as direct visual evidence.