Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

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Addna Repb' To
OFFICElt-IN-CBARGR
And Refer To No.
NT4-28/ 8310/177283
AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT
NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER.
OAKLAND 4, CALIFORNIA
11 August 1952
From:
1Chief Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, 177283, U. s. N.
To:
Comm.anding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah
Subj:
Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in Air
El:l,cl:
(1) One (1) fifty-foot roll of processed 16mm color motion
picture film
1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded herewith for whatever value it may have in con­
nection with your investigatio~ of the so-called nFlying Saucers".
Pertinent
data follows:
Place:
About 7 miles north of Tremonton, Utah on U.S. Highway No . 30S.
Time:
1110 Wednesday 2 July 1952.
Camera:
B&H Automs.ster, magazine load, 311 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 under exposure.
General 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 suit­
case.
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 re­
peating for three or four such passes.
By this time all of the ob­
jects had disappeared.
I expended the balance of the film late that
afternoon on a mountain somewhere in Idaho.
DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007