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DOW-UAP-D102: Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

Department of War · 2026-09-18 · 156 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 28 …at Hill AFB would probably be different trom those at Tremonton because of topography and land…
  • p. 113 …Comm.anding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah Subj: Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in…
  • p. 114 …11 Aug 52) 1st Ind - HQ 00AMA, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 28 August 19.52…
  • p. 116 …A message was~lso dispatched to the CO, Hill AFB, Utah requesting weather informa.tion for…
  • p. 121 …Coomanding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah Subj: Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in Air…
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