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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. 20 …ELECTRICAL MENNS TO ATIC WITH INFORMATION THIS HEADQUARTERS. • I RESPONSE REPLY TO AFOIN-2A2. •07/20342…
  • p. 23 …JWPHQ/DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE •HEADQUARTERS USAF, WAHSINGTON 25,D.c. •9171 IN REPLY TO AFOIN-2A2…
  • p. 114 …1lirector of Intelligence, Headquarters, USAF, Washington 25, D. C. 1. This report of unidentified flying objects…
  • p. 120 …DirMtor o! Intelligence, Headquarters, U~AF, Washington 2S., D. C. 1. Tuis ruport ot uni entitled…
  • p. 151 …INQUmt TOt D1rectQr of Special Investiga~iona Headquarters, US.AF ,asbington 25, D. O. SlNOPSISa On…
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3 Jul.f 1952, STlNfl nn4 00.SH 'ltcre aeparatol_y intvnettod by Spooial
,igent JUUUS o. roP.?lNGA. Tim.01 locot1on_, :!ICthod ot eigbtlna, wea.tbff
eondiUona, db-eotion ot flight, and dli~pellranee JR)Jte iden't1cel t.o
that, ~rt.Gd b,- W!rCAl.P. Several dllterencea ~m be noted, howcwor,
r•lo.t.ive w tho desaript..ton or ~hfJ object.
j. S'l'lN.&n de,croibed tho obJeet at1 1"0t.1embliile a omall bl.imp,
hav1ng & blunt. trontt, cigar-eh&~, Md a:ledl&l" to an "aiJlplAn• m.tbout
winge or tail nasombl.r." STlHm notioed no oxbaust or noise~ and M
change~ of alt.1.tutle or coarae. Lm,t.b ot the object•• oatiml:&ted u
two tQ three hlindrod fNt.1 and no ta.it teAt.uroo, mnti, or ~O
f~tllf.W of an, kind,._.. obtened, fitI.NEll aatimted the altitude of
th• object to be about 20,ooo teGt.. Be doaor1bod itu rornard aotion to
be irregular, til'at ba~ imrrlrltl, 4n4 then p;rt>aNdif.la o.t "about th•
apeod of a.~?."
k. OOSH advieed that ml ,could not eat:iutlt.e the BUO or the
object., but deeoribed it ae o,al--ahat>$41 and bel10YOd that it wu
tr»ile4 b1 t,'IJO dlft-1.not ft}>Or tr.-.ile I ojmilar to that uaociated :dt.h f o.ge, and nae eorved 19 ,oara with the l;l'OWld forces and
4 yecu,s "'1th the Ail' Force. Ile lae nO'Nl' been on an air crew, and ol.Aima
m apociel MO"lllodge pertaining t,o iu.raratt.1 but adTisi!kl that he ?iaa
~ cbeer\'ed en airplane 1n £light, nt. ~ anglo > Naemblins the object.
deaerJ.bod, and.,., li.itsre ot no known obJoct :which aigbt Qllt'a to bo o veritioation a.tad on$ o.nd the
eue u eigl\ting Obscn'ed by ~rJIN • N!WON 'bctlfOon O'!Jl and 0734 flour•
wr on l Jul.J' 19'2 arid re~ in lat Ui:ttrict. 051 tUe 44....Q..2'6 on
3 Jul¥ 19'2. •
DOWNGRADED AT 3 y ,gAR ,JN}'~-,Y~•
' DECLASSIFIED AFTER lll Y"EJ\l-1S.
non· DIR 6200.1.U
DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007

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