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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)
OP-541C5/efb OFFICER'S ORDER MEMORANDUM OPNAV-54-109 REV. 8-48 TO: BU PERS (Att. Pers: 3116) 1. It is requested that the below named person be issued orders as indicated: SEP 1949 FILE NO. — DESIGNATOR NAME (last) (first) (middle-initial) RANK U.S.N. U.S.N.R. 177283 1350 NEWHOUSE Delbert E. LT X □ FIRST ORDERS □ CHANGE OF DUTY □ APPROVAL OF ACTION □ CONFIRMING □ ORDERS OF □ UNEXECUTED PORTION ORDERS OF □ STUDENT AVIATOR CLAUSE □ FLYING CLAUSE □ TECHNICAL OBSERVER □ LETTER □ DISPATCH (TIME GROUP) □ REPEATED FOR COMPLIANCE □ CANCELED □ MODIFIED □ CORRECTED DETACHED □ HEREBY □ WHEN RELIEVED □ WHEN DIRECTED □ ON OR ABOUT □ UPON REPORTING OF FROM □ TEM-FLY X DUTY □ TEM-FLY-INS □ DUFLY INS □ DUINS □ STAFF □ DUFLY AS: AT Bureau of Aeronautics, General Representative, Central District, Wright Field Dayton PROCEED X PROREP □ PROWDELREP □ PROIMREP X DELREP 15 days TRANS: 1. TO Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department Washington D. C. □ DIRDET □ COMP DIRDET □ PROREP □ DELREP TRANS: 2. TO □ DIRDET □ COMP DIRDET □ PROREP □ DELREP TRANS: 3. TO 008418 FOR □ Tem-Fly X Duty □ Staff □ Dufly □ Tem-Fly-Ins □ Dufly Ins □ Duins □ Furas By AS: FOR □ Tem-Fly □ Duty □ Staff □ Dufly □ Tem-Fly-Ins □ Dufly Ins □ Duins □ Furas By AS: FOR □ Tem-Fly □ Duty □ Staff □ Dufly □ Tem-Fly-Ins □ Dufly Ins □ Duins □ Furas By AS: PER DIEM □ REMARKS: Reference: OP553 memorandum dtd 30 August 1949 Copy to: OP553 BuAer. J. H. ARMSTRONG BY DIRECTION INFORMATION ADDRESSEE(S) MAIL DISP. OP 54 Cm-9 Bureau PE 5(2) DATE 9-9-49 PERS. NO. 31814 DETAIL OFFICER G 20 1503 EXT. 71302 DATE OUT BY 9-9-49 ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1948 - 802868 Note: The handwritten annotations and stamps (e.g., "FINISHED FILE PERS-3116", "Patterson AFB", "02") are not transcribed as they are not part of the original typed document content. The blacked-out regions are represented as [redacted] per instructions. All checkboxes and their states (X or □) are preserved as shown in the image.

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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.