This Project Blue Book file preserves Delbert C. Newhouse’s account and film submission from the 2 July 1952 Tremonton incident. Newhouse said the sky supplied no fixed reference for estimating distance, size, altitude, or speed. Navy analysts favored an unidentified light-source interpretation under disputed assumptions, while later reviews considered balloons, birds, insects, and mirage; one 1956 study remained inconclusive before an Air Force memo adopted a seabird explanation.
Tremonton, Utah
LocationTremonton, Utah
Location[Retweeted] Nearly 75 years on, a newly released @USAirForce UAP investigation file shows how readily USAF investigators sought to ignore the evidence of anomalous phenomena: • On 2 July 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, an experienced photographic specialist, filmed approximately 12–14 bright objects near Tremonton, Utah. Release 06 gives us not just another copy of the famous film, but the Project Blue Book documentation surrounding its technical analysis. The remarkable...
Nearly 75 years on, a newly released @USAirForce UAP investigation file shows how readily USAF investigators sought to ignore the evidence of anomalous phenomena: • On 2 July 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, an experienced photographic specialist, filmed approximately 12–14 bright objects near Tremonton, Utah. Release 06 gives us not just another copy of the famous film, but the Project Blue Book documentation surrounding its technical analysis. The remarkable part is the...
[Retweeted] **Breaking** 1952 UFO Footage Release By The Pentagon 🇺🇸🛸👽 DOW-UAP-PR159, Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952 Delbert C. Newhouse, U.S. Navy photographer: “There was a group of about ten or twelve objects that bore no relation to anything I had seen before.” On 2 July 1952, Newhouse and his wife stopped seven miles north of Tremonton, Utah. He filmed the objects with a 16mm Bell & Howell camera and a 3-inch telephoto lens. Up close they looked “shaped like two saucers...
**Breaking** 1952 UFO Footage Release By The Pentagon 🇺🇸🛸👽 DOW-UAP-PR159, Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952 Delbert C. Newhouse, U.S. Navy photographer: “There was a group of about ten or twelve objects that bore no relation to anything I had seen before.” On 2 July 1952, Newhouse and his wife stopped seven miles north of Tremonton, Utah. He filmed the objects with a 16mm Bell & Howell camera and a 3-inch telephoto lens. Up close they looked “shaped like two saucers, one invert...
This short Project Blue Book photo file records the 2 July 1952 Tremonton observation associated with CPO Delbert C. Newhouse. It says the photographed objects were too small and lacked reference points for estimating size, distance, or speed, and it lists pillow balloons or birds as possible explanations rather than a settled identification.
DOW-UAP-PR159, Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952
This archival footage is a digitization of a 16mm print of Kodachrome color motion-picture film shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse reported observing and filming a group of bright airborne objects and shortly thereafter submitted the footage to the U.S. Air Force. The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The film’s limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution. From the 55-second mark onward, the film transitions to unrelated footage appearing to show a demonstration of sewing equipment. The presence of unrelated sewing-equipment footage suggests that the surviving footage may be a composite or reused print, though the available record does not establish how or when the materials came to be combined. As documented in records submitted with the film, contained in this collection under the title DOW-UAP-D102, the footage originally was paired with mountain scenery from Idaho, which is not preserved in this digitization.
This released document records that the results of the panel's studies have moved CIA to conclude that no National Security Council Intelligence Directive on this sub-~ ject is warranted. The file preserves the source account or analysis but does not independently establish interpretations beyond the cited record. This document is useful as an officially released artifact because it preserves the file's provenance and lets its claims be compared with related Release 03 records.




