Tremonton Utah — Navy UAP Film, 1952

On July 2, 1952, Navy Chief Petty Officer Delbert Newhouse and his wife were driving near Tremonton, Utah when they observed a group of bright objects moving in formation overhead. Newhouse, a trained naval aerial photographer with 2,100 hours of flight time, retrieved his Bell & Howell 16mm camera with a 3-inch telephoto lens and filmed approximately four minutes of footage before the objects departed. The footage shows multiple bright, disc-shaped objects — one of which breaks formation and reverses direction at high speed. The Navy's Photographic Interpretation Laboratory at Anacostia analyzed the film for approximately 1,000 man-hours. Their report concluded the objects were not aircraft, birds, or balloons, and appeared to be 'self-luminous objects, not reflecting light from the sun.' The Robertson Panel, convened by the CIA in January 1953 to review the most compelling UAP evidence, reviewed both the Tremonton and Great Falls films extensively. The Panel declined to reach a final conclusion on the Tremonton footage, recommending continued study — an unusual outcome given the panel's overall skeptical mandate.