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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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MAJOR /JONAUJ £. KEYHOE, U.S. MAIUNE CORPS.RET.,IN A TELEGRAM SENT TO 8RIGAOIER GENERAL SORY SMITH
MOTO SECRETARY OF THEAIRf'"ORCE HAROLD E. TALBOTT, TOLD THIS STORY1 ON .IULYI. /95#, NAVY WARRANT
OFFICER IJ£1./IEIITC. NUHOU$£ WAS EN ROUTE TO PORTL NO, 0 ~ • AT 11!!0 A;_ ., A POINT ON HIGH-
WAY 30, SEVEN MILES NORTH OF rREIIONTON, UTAH. OENLY, He SAW A GROUP CK' ROUNO, EXTREMELY BRIGHT
OBJECTS MOVING WEST AT A VERY HIGH SPEED.. _-
•As A NAVAL AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHER,NEWHOUSE "'NEAR TI4E EN01 ONE OF THE OBJECT~ REVERSED ITS COURSE
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THREE INCH TELEFOTO LENS, HE SHOT ABOUT
40 FEET OF FILM...''
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6. THE SIGHTING COULD OT BE
EXPLAINED BY ANY CONVENTIONAL
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