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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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(Forward part below to BuPers - ORIGINAL ONLY) ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF NOTICE OF TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT. Date 5 SEP 1944 From: Lieut. (jg) Delbert Clement NEWHOUSE, USN To: The Chief of Naval Personnel. Via: The Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, C.Z. 1. I acknowledge receipt of notice of appointment to the rank of Lieutenant (jg) in the Navy, (Naval Reserve) for temporary service made by the President on 1 September, 1944. 2. Notice of this temporary appointment was made by my reporting senior pursuant to the authority contained in (Alnav No. 169 BuPers Circular Letter No. [redacted]). My BuPers file number is 177283. 3. This temporary appointment has not and will not be declined by me. 4. Two (2) certified copies of this letter are being furnished by me to the Disbursing Officer carrying my accounts. 5. I certify that the appointment to the above rank has not been previously withheld for any reason. DELBERT CLEMENT NEWHOUSE U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION CCCC SOLO, CANAL ZONE 5 SEP 1944 First Endorsement From: The Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, C.Z. To: The Chief of Naval Personnel. 1. Forwarded. (Following paragraph to be completed only when appropriate). 2. Reported for duty on [redacted] 19 [redacted] (or to be for assignment to duty by the Chief of Naval Personnel). cc: Two-Disbursing Officer Carrying accounts. One-Officers file jacket. One-Officer concerned. One-Com15 THOMAS DURFEE FINISHED FILE PERS 3255 NOTED PERS 32152 6655 Note: The handwritten annotations and stamps (e.g., “800 LAB”, “NOTED PERS 32152”, “6655”) are included as they appear in the image. The redacted portions are marked as “[redacted]” per instructions. The signature lines are preserved as written, including the handwritten signatures and typed names beneath them. The vertical stamp “FINISHED FILE PERS 3255” and “NOTED PERS 32152” are placed at the bottom right as they appear in the image. The handwritten “6655” is included at the very bottom right.

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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.