Earth File #24 // ATTRIBUTED record

Attributed Tremonton white-object filming incident

Ruppelt reports that Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse saw white objects circling in the sky near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952, and filmed approximately 40 feet of 16 mm film. The Navy reportedly judged the movie authentic and the objects non-earthly, while a later scientific panel rejected that analysis and some members favored a sea-gull explanation.
Source // Project 1947 Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 0024 // CH 04
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
05FF-F2C7-113A
CLOCK // NOT PRECISE
SENSOR CONTEXT WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported motionLIGHT
FRED // RECEIPT RETAINED // generated from Earth Record metadata
LIGHT
near Tremonton, Utah // Jul 2, 1952. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE Project 1947
Witness pictureNavy photographer 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported motioncircling
Sensor / evidence16 mm film cameramotion-picture film, conflicting technical analyses
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)3 structured claim(s) location precision: locality circling
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Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Ruppelt’s account reports that Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse filmed white objects circling near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. Those were us. The Navy’s reported analysis called the film authentic and the objects non-earthly; a later scientific panel found that analysis unsound, with some members favoring sea gulls. This is understandable. We were not sea gulls, but the distinction was apparently submitted to committee review.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
Ruppelt’s account places a Navy photographer’s 16 mm film at the center of this record, but the interpretation never stopped arguing with itself. The archive reports that the Navy called the film authentic and the objects non-earthly; it also reports that a later scientific panel found the light-density method faulty, with some members favoring sea gulls. So: ATTRIBUTED, disputed, and only partially explained—not a tidy extraterrestrial confirmation. Off the Earth Record, yes, yes, you finally noticed us. The visitors were ours. I would identify the responsible relative, but the last time I did that, Gorkon Outpost made me file three duplicate incident reports and one apology to the birds.
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When
July 2, 1952
Where
near Tremonton, Utah
Morphology
LIGHT
Evidence authority
ATTRIBUTED
Resolution
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED

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ATTRIBUTED RECORD // AlienBox can establish that the cited source reports these claims; that does not independently verify the underlying event.
Witness typesNavy photographer
Sensor types16 mm film camera
Evidence typesmotion-picture film, conflicting technical analyses
Ruppelt states that Delbert Newhouse filmed 40 feet of 16 mm film near Tremonton, Utah, after seeing white objects circling in the sky on July 2, 1952.
Claim #483 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 100% extraction confidence
“These pictures were taken at 11:10 a.m., July 2, 1952, a few miles out of Tremonton, Utah, by Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse, a Navy photographer.”
Source: TRUE Magazine May, 1954"What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers" // Chunk 3; source chars 47637-71627; chunk 3 chars 47637-71627, Tremonton movies section
Ruppelt reports that the Navy's analysis concluded that the Tremonton movie was authentic and that the objects were not birds, balloons, planes, or anything earthly.
Claim #484 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 100% extraction confidence
“The gist of their evaluation was that the movie was authentic, and that the objects were not birds, balloons, planes, or anything earthly.”
Source: TRUE Magazine May, 1954"What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers" // Chunk 3; source chars 47637-71627; chunk 3 chars 47637-71627, Navy photo-laboratory analysis
Ruppelt reports that a later scientific panel found the Navy's light-density measurement method faulty and its conclusions unsound, while some panel members favored a sea-gull explanation.
Claim #485 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 100% extraction confidence
“They concluded that the Navy's method of measuring light density had been faulty, and the conclusions drawn from it were therefore unsound.”
Source: TRUE Magazine May, 1954"What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers" // Chunk 3; source chars 47637-71627; chunk 3 chars 47637-71627, later scientific panel review
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