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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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TEMPORARY TRAVEL ORDER REQUEST NAVPER-1863 (REV. 8-48) TO: The Chief of Naval Personnel. DATE 31 August 1949 IT IS REQUESTED THAT TEMPORARY TRAVEL ORDERS BE ISSUED AS INDICATED: BUREAU OR OFFICE Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department NAME (Last) (First) (Middle initial) RANK AND CORPS FILE NO. DESIGNATOR OR CLASSIFICATION Newhouse Delbert C. Lt., USN 177283 1100/350 DUTY STATION OR TEMPORARY DUTY STATION (Where officer is to be addressed) BAGR, Central District, Dayton, Ohio IS OFFICER NOW ON TEMPORARY DUTY ON PER-DIEM BASIS? ☐ Yes ☒ No IF YES, REFERENCE ORDERS TO PROCEED ON OR ABOUT 6 Sept. 1949 OFFICER IS PAID FROM APPROPRIATION: ☐ Naval Reserve ☒ Pay and subsistence of Naval Personnel ESTIMATED PERIOD OF DUTY AWAY (Number of days) 3 days PLACES TO BE VISITED IN SEQUENCE OF VISITS (List location first. If naval activity, to whom reporting; otherwise, exact name of organization or firm) Bureau Photographic Division, Navy Department, Washington D.C. 002939 AUTHORITY IS REQUESTED TO (Check as appropriate) ☐ Omit ☐ Vary ☐ Revisit places listed above ☐ Visit such additional places as may be necessary in connection with the duty (If this authority is requested, a supplementary statement explaining reason must be attached) REASONS FOR TRAVEL (Nature, purpose of visit) Familiarization of procurement functions in the Photographic Division IT IS NECESSARY THAT I RECEIVE ORDERS NOT LATER THAN (HOUR) (DATE) IS AIR TRAVEL TO BE DIRECTED? (Check mode(s) of travel) ☒ Government Air (PRIORITY 3) ☐ Commercial Air ESTIMATED COST TRANSPORTATION None ESTIMATED COST PER DIEM None MISCELLANEOUS (TAXI, TIPS, ETC.) None TOTAL None HOW OFFICER WILL TRAVEL: Government Air REMARKS: It is requested that the following paragraph be incorporated into the requested orders: "The above is authorized with the understanding that you will be entitled to no expenses in connection therewith. In case you do not desire to bear this expense, you will regard this authorization as revoked." REQUESTED BY Lt. E.E. Crowder, USNR SECTION Material Procurement Branch ROOM 2944 EXTENSION 1194 SIGNED (1) Cdr. C.A. Van Dusen, USN SIGNED (2) FORWARDED/APPROVED BY U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-37704-3 Note: Handwritten annotations such as "Vice BAGR CD", "Wright-Patterson AFB", "No cost WRT", "Authorization Routine 225", "FINISHED FILE PERS-311S2", and the circular stamp "BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS SEP 1 1949" are not included in the structured Markdown as they are not part of the typed form content. The handwritten signatures and markings are also omitted per the instruction to transcribe only the typed text. The redacted areas are represented as [redacted] in the original image but are not transcribed as they contain no legible text.

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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.