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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.
..COPY ., AVIATION SUPPLY DEroI' VAL , UPPLY .CENTER N1'4-28/8310/177283 OAKLAND 4, CALIFORNIA 11 August 1952 From: Chief Photoarapher Delbert C. Newhouse, 177283, U.S. N. To: Coomanding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah Subj: Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in Air Encl: (1) One (1) fifty-foot roll of propessed 16mm color motion picture film 1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded herewith for whatever value:it may have in con nection 1th your investigation of the so-called "Flying c>aucers 11 • Pertinent data folla,rs: Places About 7 mil snorth of Tr~monton, Utah on U. S. Higmray No. 30S. Time: 1110 ednesday 2 July 1952. Camera: B&H Automaster, magazine load, 311 telephoto lens, 16 frames per second. Handheld. Exposure: First few feet - r:B. Balance - f:16. Clear sun, cloudless sky. EKCo Kodachrome film - ll!lylight. Exposure was changed With the mistaken idea of darkening the sky to gain greater oort rast. 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 notioed 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 acyth.ing I had seen before - milling about in a rought formation and proceeding in a westerly direction. I opened the luggage compartment of the car anJ uot my camera out of a suit case. Loading it hurrie ly, I exposed approximtely thirty feet of film. There was no reference ooint in t e sky an:i it was impo sible for me to make any e stimate of speed, size, altitude or istance. Toward the end one of t he objects reversed oourso 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 SJ.ch passes. By this t i me all of the ob jects had disappear d. I expended the balance of t e film late that afternoon on a mounta l n scrnewhere in Idaho. /s/ lbert c. Newhouse DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007
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