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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.
• •UNCLASSIFIED COPY CSAF ITEM 2/; TT-27 26 Feb 1953 ATI OLOUl, YOUNG Reference Item 2 ATIC Telecon 15, 5 Feb 53 the following statement is for ATIC coordination prior to release to PIO: I- This color film provides an instance of a sighting being substantiated by motion pictures and confirms the faith of the USAF in the veracity of the many citizens who have reported sightings of unidentified objects or phenomena in the air. ' The film was forwarded to the USAF by Warrant Officer Delbert c. Newhouse , Aviation Supply Depot, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California.1 Warrent Officer Newhouse stated that the film was exposed 7 miles North of Tremonton, Utah, on the U.S. Highway 30 at 11:00 a.m. MST, 2 July 52: and that he was using a Bell and Howell Auto Master(hand-held) with a three inch telephoto lens at F/8 for the first few feet of the film and the balance at F/16 all at sixteen frames per second. Examination of the film to date allows a deduction that the images were caused by surfaces having good reflective qualities, (:mch as seagulls o~ balloon~., or by bodies or substances possessing high intensity light sources. Images appearing on the film are nonsufficiently defined to permit identification or determination of form or substance and should have been caused by unknown objects or undetermined known obJects. The absence of any reference ooints, even clouds, in the bac·ground has made it impossible to estimate the distance of the obJects from the camera, thus precluding a I determination of aiz.e 'and linear speed. Measurements of angular UNCLASSIFIED DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007
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