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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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UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET Air Force UTILITY WING, PACIFIC FLEET FU/FF12/P16-4/00/60:wn Serial: 82-48 1 July 1948. From: The Commander Utility Wing, Pacific Fleet. To: Lieutenant Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, 0177283/1350, U.S. Navy. Subject: Change of Duty. Reference: (a) BuPers disp. 221305Z of June 1948. 1. Reference (a) is quoted, for information and compliance: LT DELBERT C NEWHOUSE 177283/1350 DIRDET ABOUT 1 JULY PROREP BUAE R NAVY DEPT TEN ABOUT 2 WEEKS X COMPLETION DIRDET PROREP BAGR CENTRALDIST WRIGHT PATTERSON AIRFORCE BASE DAYTON OHIO DUTY REPLTR COMINE X DELREP 15 DAYS WASH DC PROVIDED NO EXCESS LEAVE INVOLVED XX XX XX 2. You will proceed immediately and report to the Commandant of the FOURTEENTH Naval District for transportation for yourself and your dependents to a port in the United States. Upon arrival you will proceed and carry out the orders contained in paragraph one above or any modification thereto. 3. Keep the Bureau of Naval Personnel and your new station advised of your address. 4. Immediately upon reporting for duty in compliance with these orders, or any modifications thereto, you are hereby directed to forward to the Chief of Naval Personnel, via your new Commanding Officer, a copy of these orders, complete with all endorsements thereto, including the final reporting endorsement. 5. Delivered and detached this date. J. C. CROVIN. Copy to: CNO (OP-54) BuPers (Pers 31163) BuAer ComINE ComAirPac ComServPac BAGR, Central District Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. ComFOURTEEN. CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE COPY

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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.