Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

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AVIATION SUPPLY DEroI'
VAL , UPPLY .CENTER
N1'4-28/8310/177283
OAKLAND 4, CALIFORNIA
11 August 1952
From:
Chief Photoarapher Delbert C. Newhouse, 177283, U.S. N.
To:
Coomanding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah
Subj: Motion Pictures of Unidentified Objects in Air
Encl:
(1) One (1) fifty-foot roll of propessed 16mm color motion
picture film
1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded herewith for whatever value:it may have in con­
nection 1th your investigation of the so-called "Flying c>aucers11 •
Pertinent
data folla,rs:
Places
About 7 mil snorth of Tr~monton, Utah on U. S. Higmray No. 30S.
Time:
1110 ednesday 2 July 1952.
Camera:
B&H Automaster, magazine load, 311 telephoto lens, 16 frames per
second.
Handheld.
Exposure: First few feet - r:B. Balance - f:16.
Clear sun, cloudless sky.
EKCo Kodachrome film - ll!lylight.
Exposure was changed With the
mistaken idea of darkening the sky to gain greater oort rast. 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 notioed 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 acyth.ing I had seen before - milling about in a
rought formation and proceeding in a westerly direction.
I opened
the luggage compartment of the car anJ uot my camera out of a suit­
case. Loading it hurrie ly, I exposed approximtely thirty feet of
film. There was no reference ooint in t e sky an:i it was impo sible
for me to make any estimate of speed, size, altitude or
istance.
Toward the end one of t he objects reversed oourso 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 SJ.ch passes. By this t i me all of the ob­
jects had disappear d.
I expended the balance of t e film late that
afternoon on a mountal n scrnewhere in Idaho.
/s/
lbert c. Newhouse
DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007