monton Movie, a movie that had been
taken by a Navy Chief Photographer, Warrant Officer Delbert C.
Newhouse, on July 2, 1952.
Our report on the incident showed that Newhouse, his wife, and their
two children were driving to Oakland, California, from the east coast
on this eventful day. They had just passed through Tremonton, Utah, a
town north of Salt Lake City, and had traveled about 7 miles on U.S.
Highway 30S when Mrs. Newhouse noticed a group of objects in the sky.
She pointed them out to her husband; he looked, pulled over to the
side of the road, stopped the car, and jumped out to get a better
look. He didn't have to look very long to realize that something
highly unusual was taking place because in his twenty-one years in
the Navy and 2,000 hours' flying time as an aerial photographer, he'd
never seen anything like this. About a dozen shiny disklike objects
were "milling around the sky in a rough formation."
Newhouse had his movie camera so he turned the turret around to a 3-
inch telephoto lens and started to photograph the UFO's. He held the
camera still and took several feet of film, getting all of the bright
objects in one photo. All of the UFO's had stayed in a compact group
from the time the Newhouse family had first seen them, but just
before they disappeared over the western horizon one of them left the
main group and headed east. Newhouse swung his camera around and took
several shots of it, holding his camera steady and letting the UFO
pass through the field of view before it disappeared in the east.
When I received the Tremonton films I took them right over to the
Wright Field photo lab, along with the Montana Movie, and the photo
technicians and I ran them twenty or thirty times. The two movies
were similar in that in both of them the objects appeared to be large
circular lights--in neither one could you see any detail. But, unlike
the Montana Movie, the lights in the Tremonton Movie would fade out,
then come back in again. This fading immediately suggested airplanes
reflecting light, but the roar of a king-sized dogfight could have
been heard for miles and the Newhouse family had heard no sound. We
called in several fighter pilots and they watched the UFO's circling
and darting in and out in the cloudless blue sky. Their unqualified
comment was that no airplane could do what the UFO's were doing.
Balloons came under suspicion, but the lab eliminated them just as
quickly by studying the kind o
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