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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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------ - - • UNCLASSIFIED him to make any estimates as to size, speed, or distance.· Toward the end of his observation one of the objects reversed course and proceeded ava, from the rest of the group. He held the camera still and all owed this ingle object to pass aaross the fiel~ of view of the cpmera picking it Up again later in ita travel. He repeated this for two or three passes. By this time all the objects had disappeared. The movies have been studied by the Photo Beconnaiaeance J.abora~~ \lr~ A1r Develo~nt Center yright-Pat'kuon AFB, Ohio 1 and by the u.s. Navy Phou, Inter pretation Center, Washington, D. C. Since there was no known obj ect auoh a.a a cloud, tree, or mountain 1n the film, it waa hipose1ble to make even a. rough eatimate as to the speed, di tanae, or size. The size of the images on the movie film were too small to show BJlT details. ~e movie have been studied by persons engaged in work with balloons end the appearance and action of the objects ve s1mUar to that of pillow belloona. These balloons are called pillow bw.loona due to their e1mile.r1ty to a pillow.. Hundreds of these balloons were JllSde and nown 1n the u.s. end overseas during the Crusade for Freedom. Attenq)ts to trace these balloons to determine whether &n7 left over from the Crusade for Freedom ootild have been launched 1n the Tremonton area. were negative. Another strong poeeibility is t.bat the objeot vere sea gulls soaring thermal. a1r current•.~ • Movies of sea s taken una.er e1m'3ar lighting conditions showed the sea gulla present time the Air Force contemplates no :future action will be taken to ident1f'y the objeats. UNCLASSIFIED DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007 ANALYSIS DIVIS:ON F,LE --'-/O _o].3 FILE NU, BER INITIALS
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