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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)
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U. S. NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION ANACOSTIA, D. C. NPC31/P16-3/00/LWP:rts 9 October 1950 FIRST ENDORSEMENT on BuPers ords ser 21865 dated 4 October 1950 From: Commanding Officer To: CHPHOT Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, USN 1. Delivered. L. W. PARRISH --- SECOND ENDORSEMENT U. S. NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION ANACOSTIA, D. C. 31 OCT 1950 From: Commanding Officer To: CHPHOT Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, USN 1. Detached this date. 2. There were no public quarters available for assignment to you and therefore it was necessary for you to procure quarters at your own expense. L. W. PARRISH CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE COPY [Signature: Newhouse] DISTRICT STAFF HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH NAVAL DISTRICT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Third End. Reported this date for transportation. You are hereby directed to report to CO, Naval Station, Treasure Island, for assignment of quarters in BOQ. A. T. JACOBSON By direction of the Comdt, NOV 26 1950 Note: The handwritten signature "Newhouse" is transcribed as "[Signature: Newhouse]" to indicate it is a signature. The stamp "NOV 26 1950" is placed at the bottom left as it appears in the image. The redacted blacked-out regions are not present in the visible text, so none are included. All text, including the stamp and handwritten elements, is preserved as per the instructions.

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