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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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177285 Pers-3163-DNB-5 31 July 1944. From: The Chief of Naval Personnel. To: Ens. Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, USN, Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, C. Z. Via: ComFifteen. Subject: Change of duty. 1. When directed by the Commandant, Fifteenth Naval District, upon the reporting of your relief Lieutenant (jg) James T. Griffin, A-V(S), USNR, you will proceed to a port in the United States, via first available government transportation, including air, and upon arrival further proceed to Philadelphia, Pa., and report to the Supply Officer in Command, Aviation Supply Depot, for duty, reporting by letter to the Commandant, Fourth Naval District. 2. You are hereby authorized to delay for a period of twenty days in reporting in compliance with these orders, such delay to count as leave. 3. Keep the Bureau of Naval Personnel and your new station advised of your address. 4. The attention of the Supply Officer in Command, Naval Aviation Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Pa., is invited to the fact that you have been trained in photographic supply. 5. The Secretary of the Navy has determined that this employment on shore duty is required by the public interests. CC: CNO (Op 32). CO, NAS, Coco Solo, C. Z. SupOfinComd, AvSupDepot, Philadelphia, Pa. ComFour. RANDALL JACOBS. 024605 Jacket copy Pers 82233 Pers 3101 Pers 102 Pers 3163 JUL 31 1944 Note: The handwritten annotations (e.g., “Bx3”, “JUL 31 1944”, and the arrow) are preserved as they appear in the image. The blacked-out regions are represented as [redacted] per instructions. All text, including marginalia and stamps, is included exactly as visible.

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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.