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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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OC/Newhouse, D. C. (177283/1100) Serial No. 15809 14 October 1947 From: The Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District. To: Lieutenant Delbert C. Newhouse, LIE, U. S. Navy. Via: (1) Commander, U. S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, T. H. (2) Supply Officer in Command, Naval Supply Center, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Subject: Change of duty. Reference: (a) Bakers dispatch to Com 14, 131707Z of Oct. 1947. 1. Reference (a) is quoted for your information and compliance: > "LT DELBERT C NEWHOUSE LINE 177283 WHEN DIRECTED BY THE SUPPLY OFFICER IN COMMAND NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER PEARL HARBOR TH IN OCTOBER 1947 DETACHED FROM DUTY AT THE NAVAL AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER PEARL HARBOR TH AND FROM SUCH OTHER DUTY AS MAY HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED X PROCEED AND REPORT TO THE COMMANDER AIR FORCE US PACIFIC FLAT FOR DUTY X A DELAY OF FIFTEEN DAYS IN REPORTING IN COMPLIANCE WITH THESE ORDERS IS AUTHORIZED PROVIDED NO EXCESS LEAVE IS INVOLVED X DELAY TO COUNT AS LEAVE X KEEP HUPERS AND NEW STATION LIVED OF ADDRESS X" 2. 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. THOS. H. BINFORD, By direction. cc: Bakers CNO (OP 54) ComServPac ComAirPac Com N.B 14&D Note: The handwritten annotations "8203" and "C-2" are not transcribed as they are not part of the typed document content. The blacked-out regions are represented as [redacted] per instructions. All text, including spacing and line breaks, is preserved as per the original document structure.

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