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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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFICE OF T H E CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
UNCLASSIFIED
IN REPLY REFER T O
Op•322Y5/rt■
S December 1952
FIRST ENDORSEMENT on PIC ltr ser 0263 of 5 Dec 1952
From:
To: Director of Naval Intelligence
Chief', Topical Division, USAF, AFOIN 2A2
Subj: Interpretation of Movies of Unidentified Flying Objects; progress
report on
Ref: (c) Dept of Air Force ltr file AFOIN-2A2 of 24 Oct 1952
1. Readdressed and forwarded in compliance with the request contained
in reference (c) above aDd reference (b) of the basic letter• .
UNCLASSIFIED

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