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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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5. Other pertinent matter in my correspondence file includes: (a) A report of scores for college degree: Aptitude English History Math Science Total 99 94 93 81 97 98 Possible scores range from 01 to 99. (b) A notation that I am physically and educationally qualified for transfer to regular Navy in permanent rank. (c) A Certificate of Satisfactory Service dated 25 August 1948. (d) The following memorandum: MEMO 4 May 1948 To: Operations (a) Sub-board (Cdr. Moore) The enlisted record of Newhouse, Delbert C., cannot be located. Consideration for selection will have to be based on his officer record only. /s/ G. F. Dalton Recorder 6. Within my specialty I have been consistently ordered to duty of ever increasing responsibility from Photographic Officer of Naval Air Stations; through Photographic Liaison Officer of Naval Aviation Supply Depots; Staff Photographic Officer, Commander Utility Wings, Pacific; Staff Photographic Liaison Officer, Bureau of Aeronautics General Representative, Central District with the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; to my present assignment as Head, Material Procurement Branch under the Director, Photographic Division of the Bureau of Aeronautics. 7. While I appreciate the many problems which were faced by the Bureau of Naval Personnel and the Robinson Board in listing personnel to revert, it appears that reference (b), the governing directive, was not followed in my case. On these grounds it is requested that my case be re-examined.

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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.