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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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In Reply Address Commandant Twelfth Naval District And Refer to ND12/11J/5 abm NEWHOUSE, Delbert C. CHPHOT 8311 USN 177283 OFFICE OF COMMANDANT TWELFTH NAVAL DISTRICT Federal Office Building SAN FRANCISCO 2, CALIFORNIA DEC 8 1950 4th Endorsement From: Commandant, Twelfth Naval District To: CHPHOT Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, USN Subj: Change of duty 1. Detached this date. You will proceed via transportation furnished you and upon arrival at destination will report for duty as directed in basic orders. 2. Vacated public quarters in BOQ this date. A. E. JACOBSON By direction Copy to File USNS SGT CHARLES E. MOWER MSTS PAC (Name of Ship) DEC 13 1950 (Date) Ch. Phot Newhouse (was) furnished subs at govt expense while traveling from SAN FRANCISCO to HONOLULU, T.H. during the period 12/8 thru 12/13 (Am. & date) (A. & date) Amount (due) (charged & collected) for subs furnished $ 7.50 Dave M. Lickford (Special Disbursing Agent) Copy to be a true copy NAVY-DPP012ND-TI-8931 12ND 2720 Note: The document contains two large "ORIGINAL" stamps at the top, one on the left and one on the right, which are not transcribed as text since they are stamps and not part of the typewritten or handwritten content. The handwritten signature and some handwritten annotations are transcribed as best as possible, with [illegible] used where text is unreadable. The redacted areas are not present in the visible text, so no [redacted] is used. The bottom right corner contains a document identifier: "NAVY-DPP012ND-TI-8931". The bottom left corner contains "12ND 2720". The handwritten text in the lower left corner is partially illegible and appears to be a stamp or annotation related to the U.S. Naval Air Station and San Francisco, California, but is not fully transcribed due to illegibility. The handwritten text in the lower right corner is transcribed as "Dave M. Lickford" with the title "(Special Disbursing Agent)" and a signature that is not fully legible. The handwritten text in the center is transcribed as "A. E. JACOBSON" with the title "By direction". The handwritten text in the lower right corner is transcribed as "Dave M. Lickford" with the title "(Special Disbursing Agent)" and a signature that is not fully legible. The handwritten text in the center is transcribed as "A. E. JACOBSON" with the title "By direction". The handwritten text in the lower left corner is partially illegible and appears to be a stamp or annotation related to the U.S. Naval Air Station and San Francisco, California, but is not fully transcribed due to illegibility. The handwritten text in the lower right corner is transcribed as "Dave M. Lickford" with the title "(Special Disbursing Agent)" and a signature that is not fully legible. The handwritten text in the center is transcribed as "A. E. JACOBSON" with the title "By direction".

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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.