The 1952 Tremonton film shot by Navy CWO Delbert Newhouse is a landmark early Project Blue Book photographic case, with a pre-2010 official record that remained unresolved.
DOW-UAP-PR159, Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952
Tremonton, Utah UFO film, Blue Book review (1952)
solid newsworthy item
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- Location
- Tremonton, Utah
- Incident date
- 7/2/1952
- Witnesses
- Single witness
- Released
- September 18, 2026
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Official Conclusion
Project Blue Book could not reach a conclusive resolution due to the film's limited detail and lack of fixed reference points.
Official Description
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.
Key Findings
- →Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse filmed a group of bright airborne objects near Tremonton, Utah on July 2, 1952 using a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master 16mm camera.
- →The film was submitted to the U.S. Air Force and became a visual case reviewed by Project Blue Book.
- →Limited detail and absence of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution of the case.
- →From the 55-second mark the film shows unrelated sewing-equipment demonstration footage, suggesting a composite or reused print.
- →Records submitted with the film (DOW-UAP-D102) indicate it was originally paired with Idaho mountain scenery not preserved in this digitization.
Digitized 16mm Kodachrome film shot on 2 July 1952 near Tremonton, Utah by U.S. Navy CWO Delbert C. Newhouse, showing a group of bright airborne objects. The footage was submitted to the USAF and reviewed under Project Blue Book, which could not reach a conclusive resolution due to limited detail and no fixed reference points. After 55 seconds the film switches to unrelated sewing-equipment demonstration footage, indicating a composite or reused print.
Analyst Notes
Single-witness filming with no corroborating sensor data; limited image detail and no fixed reference points prevent analysis of range, size or speed. The print appears to be a composite or reused copy with unrelated sewing footage, and original paired material is missing, raising chain-of-custody and provenance questions. Based on description only; the video was not reviewed.
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