Documents / Document

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. 49 …ta appreci tion to you tor your cooper t1on throughout the entire nftlatiption of the cue…
iJNCLASSIFIED
~. Tl'N&l91 Ca!t
• (l) V. 4o ao, •ll'N vt \he tUa•• CvlWlluaiom •not alrcrart 1
not ~lloooa, not• rd ■.• 4 OOililarathe analy1e ■ vae ade
of • oon trca the orts•al Illa atrlp. and. th.a\ ■ bovn
117 ClreeA-RouM "1 Major lllllller and MIJor Buclaouter, ATIC
pl&o\o 1peclalt ■ t1. The original tlla ahova the preeeDOf'
ot ... l'lll• on • llllaber ot tra..a. fl:lla la not ■howo la
U.. tlollJWOOd, 'Hr■ ton.
(2) l'llr\ner, 1, h ""' aooe_.,. to ololo ,hot a perUcular
■pecloa of - gull ore prk, or
are7...,r'.ad --cout C apeclalhto, t.D1 ullder
,_,.. of tbHO - gull ■ ■caiD•t a hlgb-llgblod ak7
"""14 toa4 \o 'vaab °"'' 4elolla ot tb~ bod.7 and vlng o t•
llM ot tbe 11.ul•• &i'Yl.Ag th.ea • vb.he olrcu.l ■ r •~~aranl!e
&I a dleh.noe. (0tt1oer Hevbouaa openly ad..idUed in the
tUa tllat Ila Wider o:q,oaed bh 'ob>to•,)
(II) Till• la o,
4. br«g cue, Our tu,. !Dcllcalo tl>at tbla VH w,doubtedly on
enw\le aoTtDC Nlloca vMoA Lt. Cbrw.n eneouDtered.. Capt. ~ppelt aho CJ.l•
rl- tbh la Illa -. - 67, top.
•• 4,lrllRt PUotl C.u• ,Mt POr1:nay9id OD th• 1creet1 tb1e Sa an
•.PJIIU'eAt attempl to 4o~, \b.e •GbUe1-1tb.StW eue•. U eo, our coanent;
A 4o■ crlpUOD ot tho uro alhged to i,a,.. been alOHly obooned by each of
IMN ftteru Za•hl'D 1lrl!nN pllot ■ wfll be fCNDd 1n P8l• 8l. ot tbe Pro;ect
BllMboolc'• llopon 111', 14 'Allal1•la of ~llontlflo4 fl;log 0bJeot••. Htougb
bo~ obMn.r•• wei. il '.int: ;· : lo rrb. other u,11 obeel"Tn:d tbe NJll8 objoct
~tb•r• tile ■tetcb. • ; Net llo N.PU"ltlly oannot be . id tv bt,- a ~ h:"" •
UNCLASSIFIED DOWNGRADED AT 11
DECLAsSIFJED A~JIR lNTFJRVA:f$
DOD Dlll. 620~.112 YEARS. '
• •

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 156 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.