E-006310LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Tremonton Newhouse Motion-Picture UFO Cluster
July 2, 1952Tremonton area, Utah, United States
Navy Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse and his wife reported roughly ten to twelve disc-like objects milling near Tremonton. Newhouse filmed the objects on 16 mm color film; Hall quotes a film analysis describing recurring clusters and curvilinear motion.
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“Hall says Newhouse and his wife observed roughly ten to twelve disc-shaped objects milling in a group and that a 16 mm film recorded bright images whose pattern of motion included recognizable clusters and curvilinear milling.”
SRC-002107 · Tremonton film cluster; uploaded PDF pp. 29-29
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CLAIM-693010reported
“In Section VIII Hall again lists the July 2, 1952 Tremonton movie as a strongest-rated photographic case and discusses official analysis of the moving light images.”
“The film analysis quoted by Hall describes sharp image edges and recurring groups but does not itself establish the objects' distance, size, material structure, or origin.”
SRC-002107 · Quoted film-analysis limits/context; uploaded PDF pp. 29-30
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CLAIM-693011reported
“Hall’s strong photographic rating does not establish object distance, size, material structure or origin; the original film and full analyses remain necessary for independent evaluation.”
SRC-002107 · Tremonton photographic limitations; uploaded PDF pp. 162-163
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CLAIM-694022explained
“Hall reproduces the 1963 Air Force “Ode D ‘Classic’ — Seagulls” information sheet, which states that the Tremonton film showed seagull-like reflections and that later evaluations left little reasonable doubt the objects were seagulls.”
SRC-002107 · Air Force Ode D Seagulls summary; uploaded PDF pp. 210-211
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CLAIM-694023disputed
“Hall then quotes Dewey Fournet disputing the Air Force summary, saying the original Wright-Patterson and Navy analyses did not identify birds and that most original participants considered birds improbable, though some conceded the possibility under additional assumptions.”
“The Abstract says NICAP selected 740 reports after considering more than 5,000 signed reports and many hundreds of reports from newspapers and other publications, emphasizing observer qualifications and multiple-observer cases.”
“NICAP explicitly distinguishes its physical-UFO investigation from contactee, religious, philosophical, and spiritual claims and says its investigations found no evidence supporting claimed rides in flying saucers, while alleging considerable fraud in that area.”
“Hall groups recurrent Air Force explanation styles under the labels “counter-to-fact,” “shotgun,” and “zigzag,” with the latter describing explanations that change over time.”
SRC-002107 · NICAP taxonomy of counter-to-fact, shotgun and zigzag explanations; uploaded PDF pp. 201-201
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CLAIM-694017disputed
“Hall contrasts Air Force statements that no UFO reports were withheld with AFR 200-2/JANAP release restrictions and with specific case correspondence cited in Section IX.”
SRC-002107 · Nothing withheld statements and NICAP rebuttals; uploaded PDF pp. 201-204
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CLAIM-694018disputed
“Hall contrasts Air Force correspondence minimizing or denying knowledge of the 1948 Estimate of the Situation with Ruppelt's description and Dewey Fournet's statement confirming that an early intelligence summary existed.”
SRC-002107 · 1948 document dispute and Fournet statement; uploaded PDF pp. 203-205
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CLAIM-694041reported
“Hall reproduces Air Force news release 1108-57 of November 15, 1957, which selected five cases from the wave for conventional/hoax explanations: Levelland, James Stokes at White Sands/Orogrande, a Coast Guard cutter case, White Sands Army patrol sightings, and Reinhold Schmidt at Kearney.”