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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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AIRMAIL From: Chief of Naval Personnel To: CHPHOT, W-2 Delbert C. NEWHOUSE, USN USS ESSEX (CVA-9) Via: Commanding Officer Subj: Change of duty 1. When relieved you will regard yourself detached from duty on board the USS ESSEX (CVA-9) and from such other duty as may have been assigned you; will proceed to San Diego, Calif., and report to the Commander, Training Command, Pacific Fleet, for duty with the Fleet Camera Group, Pacific as the relief of Chief Photographer, W-2 Robert M. Scott, USN, 552419/8312. 2. You are hereby authorized to delay for a period of fifteen days (provided no excess leave involved) in reporting in compliance with these orders, such delay to count as leave. Keep your old and new station advised of your address using Form NavPers 3036. 3. Accounting data 1701453.2218 079 22/31600.120 CIC 3/0/453/18/*/2/079 (*Insert 1 for officer and 2 for dependent travel) Copy to: COMELEVEN COMCARDIV SIX COMSERVPAC COMNAVAIRLANT CODE 142 OIC FLECAMERAGRUPAC COMTRAPAC * H. P. SMITH 082908 Jacket copy Pers-B74 B1314 B115 F1 177283/8311 Pers-B1314-dh-1 27 April 19__ B1314 B115 C-2 B115 48R [illegible] [redacted]

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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.