U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952

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AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT
NAVAL SUPPLY CEN'.1.:ER
OAKIAm) 4, CALIFOO.NIA
NT 4-28/83,10/177283
ll August 1952
From:
Chier Photographer Delbert c. Newhouse, 177283, U.S.N.
To:
Commanding Officer, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah
Subj:
Motion Pictures ot Unidentified Objects in Air
Encl: (1)
One {1) fifty-foot roll ofprocessed 16mm color motion
picture film
1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded herewith tor whatever value it may have in con­
nection with your investiption of the so- cal.led "Flying Saucers
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Pertinent
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data follows:
Place:
About 7 miles north of Tremonton, Utah on U.S. Highway No. 30S.
Time:
lllO Wednesday 2 July 1952.
Camera.:
B&H Automaster, magazine load, 3" telephotolens, 16 f'rames per
second. Handheld.
Exposure: First few feet - f :8. l3ala.nce - f :16. Clear sun, cl.oudless sky.
EKCo Kodachrome film - Da.ylight. Exposure was changed with the
mistaken idea of darkening the sky to gain greater contrast.
The
result was merely general. under exposures.
General Background: Driving f'rom 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
rought formation and proceeding in a westerly direction.
I opened
the luggage compartment of the car and got my camera out of a suit­
ease. Loa.ding it hurriedly, I exposed approximately thirty feet of
film.
There va.s no reference point in the sky and it was impossible
for me to make a:ny estimate of speed, size, altitude or distance.
Toward the end one of the objects reversed course and proceeded away
fran the group.
I held the camera still and al.loved this single
one to cross the field o~ view, picking it up again and repeating
for three or four such passes. By this time all of the objects
had disappeared. I expended the balance of the f'ilm late that
afternoon on a mountain somewhere in Idaho.
/s/
Delbert C. Newhouse