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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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NAVAL LIAISON OFFICE TO THE CONGRESS ROOM 313B OLD HOUSE OFFICE BLDG. WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 2 April 1959 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief of Naval Personnel ATTENTION: SUBJECT: NEWHOUSE, Delbert C., CWO, USN; request for duty on the West Coast for last year in service (NOTE DATE OF SHIPS CRUISE) 1. The attached correspondence has been referred to this office by Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. 2. It is requested that your office reply in duplicate direct to the Senator , and return to him all enclosures except his letter, if any. Please furnish this office with a copy of your reply. 3. The Senator has been advised of this referral to the NAVY DEPARTMENT. Respectfully yours, E. J. NEWBOULD Commander, USN Encl: 1. Trans chit dtd 31 Mar 59 2. Ltr fm Mrs. Delbert C. Newhouse dtd 17 Mar 59 3. mlk 3454 RECEIVED APR 2 59 BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL E-29424 Note: The handwritten annotation "B1bc" in the upper right corner and the circular stamp with "RECEIVED APR 2 59 BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL" are included as described. The stamp also includes a partial date and number "3454" and "E-29424" which are transcribed as visible. The signature is represented as a placeholder since it is handwritten and not fully legible as typed text.

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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.