🛸❓New UFO Footage from 1952? ❓🛸
(Yesterday, Dump #6 brought us film of alleged UFOs shot in 1952. That footage was first released in 1956. The clip starts with a stabilized version from 2021 and an interview with the guy who shot it.)
"The film falls far short of showing what I saw with the naked eye. Like two saucers, one inverted over the other. It appeared to me to be about the size of B-29s at 10,000 feet. They had a metallic appearance. They seemed to be made of some kind of polished metal." ~Newhouse, Navy Chief Photographer
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(Dump #6 brought us the 1952 film shot near Tremonton, Utah, by Delbert C. Newhouse. UFOs? Birds? We'll never know. But what we DO know is that footage was first released in 1956 and stabilized in 2021. An on-camera interview with Newhouse is included below.
I think you'll appreciate this "documentary" clip from, "Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers," released in 1956. It includes an interview with Newhouse and another witness, baseball manager, Nicholas Mariana. In 1950, Mariana shot alleged UFO footage over Great Falls, Montana. Both films are shown.
This movie features a few real people, but mostly actors playing the roles of various people involved in the UFO story back in the 1950s, and includes coverage of Kenneth Arnold's sighting in 1947 and The Invasion of Washington in 1952.
Make sure you follow Eyes on Cinema on YT. FANTASTIC channel!)
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Delbert C. Newhouse: "I was driving on U.S. Highway 30 South with my wife and our son Delbert, and our daughter Anne. We were on our way from Washington, D.C. to Portland, Oregon on vacation, before reporting to my new duty station at the Aviation Supply Depot, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California.
"About seven miles after we passed through Tremonton, Utah, my wife noticed a group of objects in the sky, which she could not identify. I pulled over to the side of the road, stopped, got out, looked up, and saw the objects.
"There were about 12 of them in a rough formation, proceeding in a westerly direction. They were like nothing I'd ever seen before, although I've logged some 2000 hours in the air. They were identical in appearance."
Q: "How would you describe these objects?"
Newhouse: "Like two saucers, one inverted over the other. I had no means of judging the altitude. It appeared to me to be about the size of B-29s at 10,000 feet."
Q: "Did you photograph them immediately?"
Newhouse: "I watched the objects for a few moments before getting my camera out of the suitcase. Then I lost more time getting film out of the second suitcase and loading the camera. When I first saw the objects, they were almost overhead. By the time I had the camera ready to go, they had moved to a considerably greater distance."
Q: "What kind of a camera did you use?"
Newhouse: "A 16-millimeter Bell & Howell, Filmo Auto Load Master with the three-lens turret. I selected a three-inch lens, and set it on f/8 and focused at infinity."
Q: "Did you think of using slow motion?"
Newhouse: "No, the camera was set on 16 frames per second, and in the excitement of the moment, I didn't think to shoot at a greater rate, although that would have improved the coverage. I centered the viewfinder on the objects and made the first shot.
"Then I decided if the sky were darker, the objects would show better. So I stopped the lens down to f/16 and continued photographing. This proved to be a mistake, as the quality of the film would have been better had I left it at f/8."
Q: "Did these objects remain together in a group at all times?"
Newhouse: "No. Toward the end, one object reversed its course and proceeded away from the rest of the group. I held the camera still and allowed this single object to pass through the field of view, picking it up again later in its course."
Q: "Did this single object return to the rest of the group?"
Newhouse: "No, I allowed it to pass through the field of view of the camera two or three times, and then it disappeared."
Q: "In what direction?"
Newhouse: "Over the eastern horizon."
Q: "What did you do then?"
Newhouse: "I turned, swinging the camera, just in time to see the rest of the group disappear over the western horizon."
Q: "What was the weather?"
Newhouse: "The weather was bright and cloudless."
Q: "Visibility good?"
Newhouse: "The visibility was excellent."
Q: "How does this film you shot compare with what you saw with your naked eye? You have studied the film?"
Newhouse: "Yes, I've studied it. I'm very disappointed. The film falls far short of showing what I saw with the naked eye, due to the delay in getting the camera started and my error in exposure. If I'd had this camera in the seat beside me, loaded and ready to go, there'd be no need for questions. The Air Force would have the answer."
Q: "What is your full name, please?
Newhouse: "Delbert Clement Newhouse."
Q: "And you are on active duty with the Navy?"
Newhouse: "Yes, sir, I am."
Q: "What is your official Navy rank?"
Newhouse: "My title is chief photographer and a commissioned warrant officer, United States Navy."
Q: "How long have you been in the service?"
Newhouse: "21 years."
Q: "Now, is there anything you can add to the description of these objects?"
Newhouse: "They had a bright, silvery color."
Q: "Can you describe some particular detail?"
Newhouse: "They had a metallic appearance. They seemed to be made of some kind of polished metal."
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Major Dewey Fournet, played by Floyd Burton: "We got the analysis of the Newhouse film from Air Materiel Command."
Q: "What does it show?"
"Fournet": "Not birds, not balloons, not aircraft, not faked. With a telephoto lens used, weather balloons within five miles distance could have been determined on the film. At a greater distance than five miles, they could not attain the speeds calculated. Within a five-mile range, an aircraft of 40-foot wingspan could have been clearly determined. In excess of five miles, the speeds of the objects are greater than aircraft could achieve, except in a straight-line speed run. No bird is sufficiently reflective as to cause the film to react as strongly as it has done."
Q: "If they're not birds, not balloons or aircraft, and the film isn't faked. What can these things be?"
"Fournet": "The official conclusion is: Unknowns."
(Who was Fournet?)
From CUFOS dot org...
"I wrote to Fournet long after his final retirement from service in 1955 (he was always the epitome of the helpful gentleman) and he told me that he was assigned a desk alongside other officers involved in 'technical analysis of air materials' of foreign countries. 'I was given one of the least demanding areas of coverage initially. After three months, the UFO coverage was added…. In the spring of 1952, with the horrendous UFO 1952 ‘flap’ beginning, I was relieved of my regular assignment in technical intelligence and moved to the current intelligence branch on nothing but UFO coverage. The reason for the move was to put me in the mainstream of USAF intelligence communication because there was some fear that the growing volume of UFO reporting traffic could possibly mask a Soviet air attack on the US.'"
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(There are four different narrators for this "documentary" and they all represent news-style personalities, not real people.)
Narrator: "The Newhouse film was only the overture. A few minutes before 1:00 a.m. July 20th, 1952, the curtain on the first act of the Washington drama went up. The unknowns moved in for the first time over the national capital."
(Link to full excerpt is in the replies, along with a link to the full film, which is between 80-90 minutes, long, depending on which one you see. I'm linking to the 90-minute version.)