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Final Personnel Record for Newhouse, Delbert C., U.S. Navy, 1957

U.S. Department of War · 1957-05-02 · 585 pages · text by OCR, confidence 98%

From the source:Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 5/2/57, N/A. This file contains the final personnel record of U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, who left naval service as a Chief Warrant Officer 4, then the highest Warrant Officer grade. In July 1952, Newhouse recorded 16mm motion-picture film near Tremonton, Utah; the film later became the subject of a Project Blue Book investigation. Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force program active from 1952 to 1969 that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). In addition to documenting routine assignments and training, the file records Newhouse’s career progression as a Photographer’s Mate, a Navy enlisted specialty responsible for photography and related imaging work. Project Blue Book investigators characterized Newhouse as an expert photographer based on his naval experience.

DOW-UAP-PR159 · video · 1952-07-02 Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952 This archival footage is a digitization of a 16mm print of Kodachrome color motion-picture film shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse reported observing and filming a group of bright airborne objects and shortly thereafter submitted the footage to the U.S. Air Force. The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The film’s limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution. From the 55-second mark onward, the film transitions to unrelated footage appearing to show a demonstration of sewing equipment. The presence of unrelated sewing-equipment footage suggests that the surviving footage may be a composite or reused print, though the available record does not establish how or when the materials came to be combined. As documented in records submitted with the film, contained in this collection under the title DOW-UAP-D102, the footage originally was paired with mountain scenery from Idaho, which is not preserved in this digitization. Download (76.1 MB)
RECORD OF EMERGENCY DATA SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE BEFORE MAKING ENTRIES 1. DESIGNATOR'S LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME 2. SERVICE NO. 3. GRADE OR RATE 4. SERVICE NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement 177283 CHPHOT USN 5. MARITAL STATUS 6. FULL NAME OF SPOUSE 7. ADDRESS (Number, street, city, zone, and State) Married Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE 3581 S.E. Grant Court, Portland 15, Ore. 8. CHILDREN (List each child of any marriage. If none, so state) FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME—LAST NAME ADDRESS MARITAL STATUS SEX DATE OF BIRTH Delbert Carroll NEWHOUSE 3581 S.E. Grant Court, Portland 15, Oregon Single M 6/28/38 Anne Lisbet NEWHOUSE 3581 S.E. Grant Court, Portland 15, Oregon Single F 3/14/40 9. NAME OF ☒ FATHER OR ☐ MALE GUARDIAN 10. ADDRESS IF LIVING—IF DECEASED SO STATE Noah Frank NEWHOUSE Portland, Oregon 11. NAME OF ☒ MOTHER OR ☐ FEMALE GUARDIAN 12. ADDRESS IF LIVING—IF DECEASED SO STATE Edith May RICHTER Box 127, Garibaldi, Oregon IN THE EVENT THAT I AM NOT SURVIVED BY A SPOUSE OR ELIGIBLE CHILD I DESIRE THAT PAYMENT OF 6 MONTHS’ DEATH GRATUITY BE MADE TO THE RELATIVE SHOWN BELOW. (The name of father or mother must be repeated if it is desired that he or she receive payment) 13. FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME—LAST NAME 14. RELATIONSHIP 15. ADDRESS Edith May RICHTER Mother Box 127, Garibaldi, Oregon 16. ALTERNATE RELATIVE 17. RELATIONSHIP 18. ADDRESS Darrel Edwin NEWHOUSE Brother Rt 6, Box 756, Tacoma, Washington 19. IN THE EVENT THAT I AM LISTED AS MISSING OR OTHER MILITARY CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENT ME FROM TRANSMITTING FUNDS TO MY DEPENDENTS, IT IS MY DESIRE THAT FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME—LAST NAME RELATIONSHIP Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE Wife ADDRESS RECEIVE EACH MONTH 3581 S.E. Grant Court, Portland 15, Oregon 90 PERCENT OF MY PAY 20. I REQUEST THE FOLLOWING COMMERCIAL INSURANCE COMPANIES BE OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED IN CASE OF MY DEATH IN ACTIVE SERVICE NAME OF COMPANY ADDRESS OF HOME OFFICE POLICY NO. Pilot Life Insurance Company Greensboro, North Carolina 321583 California Western States Sacramento, California 399422 National Service Life Insurance Veterans Administration, Wash., D.C. V-77-44-32 Government Life Insurance Veterans Administration, Wash., D.C. K 948 857 21. DESIGNATION OR CHANGE OF BENEFICIARY—SERVICEMEN’S INDEMNITY (P.L. 23, 82d Cong.) (Does not operate as a designation or change of beneficiary of any insurance contracts issued by United States Government) ALL PREVIOUS DESIGNATIONS OF PRINCIPAL AND CONTINGENT BENEFICIARIES, IF ANY, UNDER SERVICEMEN’S INDEMNITY ACT OF 1951, ARE HEREBY CANCELED, AND IT IS DIRECTED THAT SAID INDEMNITY BE PAID TO: NAME RELATIONSHIP SHARE OR AMOUNT TO EACH BENEFICIARY Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE Wife 100 per cent WITNESSED BY (Signature on all copies) G. L. LUCAS SIGNATURE OF SERVICEMAN (Sign all copies) [Signature] GRADE OR RATE OF WITNESS Lieutenant-USNR- R SERVICE NO. 290572 DATE SIGNED 30 March 1955 DD FORM 93 1 FEB 52 Replaces DD Form 93, 1 Jul 50, which may be used. 18-67492-1

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 98%); expect the odd misread word. 585 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.