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Tremonton (Newhouse) film
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US National Archives ↗Link only — rights with the publisherRobertson Panel report, January 1953
First page of the CIA-convened Robertson Panel report. The panel screened the Tremonton film and judged the objects to be birds; the Navy photo lab had reached no such conclusion. Document scan · context.
US Government · 1953 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗A 16 mm colour film shot by Navy warrant officer Delbert Newhouse near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, showing a dozen bright objects milling against a clear sky. The Navy photographic laboratory spent weeks on frame analysis; the Robertson Panel decided the objects were birds. The corpus does not discuss this film.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Delbert C. Newhouse, US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, with a 16 mm Bell & Howell camera US Navy (off duty) |
| Released | 1952 — US Air Force / Navy photo analysis; shown in the 1956 film "Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers" |
| Official status | The 1953 CIA Robertson Panel concluded the objects were most likely birds (seagulls) reflecting sunlight, overruling a Navy photo-lab analysis that had found them self-luminous. |
| Kind | film |
| Where | 41.712, -112.165 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
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