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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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l.I).-0$1 24-0-257 SfCT I?;'T:,tt n?.Rc,s Rf.f2R1' f SUDJEO'i's (Unolus1fied) Reporting o! Ini'ormtion on Unconventional Airoratt SPECIAL INQUmt TOt D1rectQr of Special Investiga~iona Headquarters, US.AF ,asbington 25, D. O. SlNOPSISa On 2 July 1952, ctaptain ROBERT E. m:trCAμ", lOOl Ma.eoachueett.s AYenue, Le~o.u,.Jlau...aq.l}_~ett.s1 reported that he and two ot.ber persons o1,served one unidentified airborne object bet'l1een 0730 and 0740 hours, wr, on 1 Jul.1 l952. No activity or condition developed that acoounta for eighting. DETAILS, At appronmately 2000 hotU"e, 2 Jl.lly 1952, Capte.in ROBERT E. lIB?CAI.1', lOOl M.aesa.chueett• Avenue, Lexington,, Massacbuaette, reported the obs-el' vation o! on., unidentified airborne- ob~et. betl'jeen 0730 and 0740 houre on l July 1952 tc Special Agent USLIE S. HUBBSU>. On ) July 19"52, Captain METCALF was interviewed by Special Agent JULIUS B• .POPPltlGA, and tu.rm.shed the foll.r than a cigar", about 100 feet in length or slightly larger than a f olll'-engine &irline-r, having indistinct outlines at the rear r~sembling either a vary short emaust or a blurr~d tail section, with a narrow ridge along the top side, but t'lithout ~ings o~ any clear aet"od,Jnamic features, Object p?'od.uced no sound, and left ~ no vapor trail ox- exhaust other than described above. Speed was estimated ,,,..- -~ to be approxima.te1.y that or jet aircraft, bu,t observer believed the object \ "hung" in mid-air for a few aeconds on two occasions and then proceedtd. 'ADED' AT 3 YP..AR iNtF.l\~ - ONlTASSU'lED AFTER 12 ~ ~ • • DOD. DIR 6200.lQ DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007
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