Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952
This document records the Project Blue Book investigation and subsequent assessments of an incident near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. Project Blue Book was a 1952-1969 U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The file describes the Air Force’s assessment of the principal witness, Delbert C. Newhouse, a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer specializing in photography, as honest and reliable, and as an expert with more than 1,000 hours of aerial-photography experience. Newhouse reported observing 12 to 14 reflective objects and recorded the event on color motion-picture film using a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera. The file…
Catalogue description by the publishing agency.
- Record
- DOW-UAP-D102
- Release
- Release 06 · Sep 18, 2026
- Incident
- 1952-07-02 · Tremonton, Utah
- Pages
- 156
- Verdict
- not judged yet
- Source
- war.gov ↗
The pages and what the AI read on them
The transcription is the page reader's: black bars mark what the government redacted; hatched tags mark personal data we removed.
Page 1 of 156
This is a blank page with no typed text, bearing handwritten notations in blue ink at the top reading "1377 /1415", "Tremonton, Utah", "7/2/52" and "2", plus some faint pencil-like marks below. It has a DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007 stamp at the bottom.
Page 2 of 156
This is a Project 100/3 record card (Project Blue Book) describing a 2 July 1952 ground-visual sighting near Tremonton, Utah, of 10-12 objects in the sky reported by a U.S. Navy observer driving to Portland, Oregon. The card lists possible explanations of mirage effect and migratory birds, with the handwritten notation BIRDS checked as the conclusion, and a cross-reference to film 7-3745-345.
Page 3 of 156 · 1 redaction
A 1952 teletype message from Luke AFB, Arizona, to Air Force headquarters and other commands reporting a visual sighting of a seven-inch ball of flame with an eight-foot trail over Phoenix, Arizona, on 2 July 1952. Page two adds weather conditions, notes that search was requested, and records that no aircraft or balloons were reported.
Page 4 of 156 · 1 redaction
A 1952 incoming Air Force teletype message from the 28th Air Division reporting an interview with CPO Delbert C. Newhouse about unidentified flying objects and movie film sighted near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952. The page contains the opening answers to questions 1 and 2 and several redactions and handwritten annotations.
Page 5 of 156 · 1 redaction
Page two of a three-page Air Force staff message, dated 12 Sep 52 in its file reference, reporting observations of a group of 12 to 14 light-colored objects seen in bright sunlight, with one object detaching and heading opposite the original course before disappearing from view. The page also records camera-pointing details, weather conditions, and the observer's opinions on the cause and appearance of the objects.
Page 6 of 156
This is page three of a three-page Air Force staff message, dated 12 September 1952, describing an observation near Tremonton, Utah, and the background of the observer, CPO Newhouse. It lists other witnesses, states the witnesses' reported honesty and reliability, and gives Newhouse's naval photographic background.
Page 7 of 156 · 1 redaction
A teletype message from the 25th Air Division at Hamilton AFB, California, to ATIC and HQ USAF, reporting a telephone answer from a Navy petty officer that the tripod was not used for the film of a 2 July 1952 unidentified object sighting, which was hand held. The page is stamped restricted and bears a handwritten note and a copy annotation.
Page 8 of 156 · 4 redactions
A handwritten note on the back of a Project Blue Book file folder cover, praising a film lab's analysis and referring to 8-25 film and 10-day trials. Several black redaction bars appear on the page, and the page is annotated with the Tremonton case label.
Page 9 of 156
A 1952 Air Technical Intelligence Center disposition form forwarding the 35mm film from Tremonton, Utah, showing unidentified aerial objects, and recommending an ornithologist be consulted on whether the objects may be birds in flight. The page is signed by Major Robert E. Kennedy.
Page 10 of 156 · 4 redactions
This page is a largely faded carbon-style typed page with an overlapping, mostly illegible typed block near the top and a few lines of text in the middle, with redacted areas and a receipt stamp from DIA/Intelligence HQ USAF dated October 20, 1952. The text is too faint to read reliably beyond the redaction marks and stamps.
Page 11 of 156 · 2 redactions
A 1952 teletype-style message from Headquarters USAF to Chief ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB reports an unidentified flying object sighting near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, with enclosed movie film from CPO Delbert C. Newhouse, and requests an intelligence interview with a list of four questions. The page is marked UNCLASSIFIED with downgrading and declassification stamps.
Page 12 of 156 · 1 redaction
This page is a numbered list of questions (items 5 through 9, with sub-items a through f) about a camera's pointing direction, sun position, weather, meteorological activity, and observed light source, shape, color and motion of objects. It bears UNCLASSIFIED markings, a downgrading and declassification notice, and a redaction bar near the page number.