Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

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STATEMENT BY SOURCE

Place:-

About 7 miles north of Tremont, Utah, on U.S. Highway No. 305.

Time:-

1110, Wednesday, 2 July 1952.

Camera:-

B&H Automaster, magazine load, 3" telephoto lens, 16 frames per second. Handheld.

Exposure:-

First few feet - f:8. Balance - f:16. Clear sun, cloudless sky. EKCO Kodachrome film - Daylight. Exposure was changed with the mistaken idea of darkening the sky to gain greater contrast. The result was merely general underexposure.

Background:-

Driving from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon, on the morning of 2 July, my wife noticed a group of objects in the sky that she could not identify. She asked me to stop the car and look. There was a group of about ten or twelve objects that bore no relation to anything I had seen before, milling about in a rough formation and proceeding in a westerly direction. I opened the luggage compartment of the car and got my camera out of a suitcase. Loading it hurriedly, I exposed approximately thirty feet of film. There was no reference point in the sky and it was impossible for me to make any estimate of speed, size, altitude or distance. Toward the end one of the objects reversed course and proceeded away from the main group. I held the camera still and allowed this single one to cross the field of view, picking it up again and repeating for 3 or 4 such passes. By this time all of the objects had disappeared. I expended the balance of the film late that afternoon on a mountain somewhere in Idaho.

DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007