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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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., .. 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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