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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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- Requirements
1. 2 color duplicates and 1 black & white print (exclusive of portion
Vflth sound track whieh is spliced to the end of the film}.
2. Request the original be handled with utmost care (it is already 1fi
fairly poor condition, and wear very anxious that 1t suffer no further
damage).
3. Request the original be cleaned as carefu]y as posslble prior to
duplication.
4. Request utmost effort in controlling duplication to extent that resulting
copies wUl be as ldentlca.I to or.lglnal as po ible ln image and color
reproduction.
6. The loos (unspllced) porlton of 17 frames belongs at the end of the
footage havlrig a deep blue background and no sound track. The la t
frame of thls loo e portion s mmediat ly adjacent to the spllce with
the broken frame having the sound track.
6. Can the stripp d sprocket holes 1n·the loose portion of the orlgtna.l
(see 5) be repair d ln any way - sufficiently to make it possible to
run thls part a ong with the remamder of film without malfunction?

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