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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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HEADQUARTERS COMMANDER NAVAL AIR FORCE, U. S. ATLANTIC FLEET U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION NORFOLK 11, VIRGINIA CNAL-334 2 SEP 1960 From: Commander Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet To: Commanding Officer, USS ESSEX (CVS-9) Via: Commander Carrier Division EIGHTEEN Subj: Commander Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Ship Department Excellence Insignia; award of Ref: (a) OPNAVINST 3590.4A, Subj: Awards for intratype battle efficiency competition and insignia to denote excellence in certain weapons and operations 1. Commander Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet takes pleasure in certifying the Operations Department of the USS ESSEX (CVS-9) as standing first in the CVA class ship during fiscal year 1960. 2. The Commanding Officer is congratulated on the exemplary performance of the ESSEX’s Operations Department. 3. The ESSEX is authorized to display the Operations Department Excellence Insignia in accordance with reference (a). 4. Suitable entries will be made in the personnel records of the officers and men of the ESSEX who materially contributed to the earning of this award. The Commanding Officer is requested to forward a copy of this letter to the command of those personnel formerly serving on board during fiscal year 1960, who significantly contributed to the winning of this award. [Signature] W. L. REES

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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.