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This Department of War release reproduces Project Blue Book records on the Tremonton, Utah film of 2 July 1952. In them, Navy Chief Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse explains how he filmed a group of bright objects near Tremonton. ATIC memos and a December 1952 travel report record Navy and General Mills balloon specialists judging that the objects closely resembled pillow balloons. A January 1953 memorandum discusses publicly releasing the film. The file also includes unrelated sighting reports from Phoenix and Massachusetts, plus material about Donald Keyhoe.
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.......r •Addna Repb' To OFFICElt-IN-CBARGR And Refer To No. NT4-28/ 8310/177283 AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER. OAKLAND 4, CALIFORNIA 11 August 1952 From: 1Chief Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, 177283, U. s. N. To: Comm.anding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah Subj: Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in Air El:l,cl: (1) One (1) fifty-foot roll of processed 16mm color motion picture film 1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded herewith for whatever value it may have in con nection with your investigatio~ of the so-called nFlying Saucers". Pertinent data follows: Place: About 7 miles north of Tremonton, Utah on U.S. Highway No . 30S. Time: 1110 Wednesday 2 July 1952. Camera: B&H Automs.ster, magazine load, 311 telephoto lens, 16 frames per second. Handheld. Exposure: First few feet - f:8. Balance - f:16. Clear sun, cloudless sky. EKCo Kodachrome film - Daylight. Exposure was changed with the mistaken idea of darkening the sky to gain greater contrast. The result was merely general under exposure. General Background: Driving from Washington, D. C. to Portland, Oregon, on the morning of 2 July my wife noticed a group of objects in the sky that she could not identify. She asked me to stop the car and look. There was a group of about ten or twelve objects - that bore no relation to anything I had seen before - milling about in a rough formation and proceeding in a westerly direction. I opened the luggage compartment of the car and got my camera out of a suit case. Loading it hurriedly, I exposed approximately thirty feet of film. There was no reference point in the sky and it was impossible for me to make any estimate of speed, size, altitude or distance. Toward the end one of the objects reversed course and proceeded away from the main group. I held the camera still and allowed this single one to cross the field of view, picking it up again and re peating for three or four such passes. By this time all of the ob jects had disappeared. I expended the balance of the film late that afternoon on a mountain somewhere in Idaho. DECLASS IFIED Authority NND 923007
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