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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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BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL DISCHARGED ENLISTED PERSONNEL RECORDS BRANCH 9700 PAGE BOULEVARD ST. LOUIS 14, MISSOURI X-3d IN REPLY REFER TO: Pers-E374/RAP/md 393 07 21 3 Dec 1956 From: Head, Branch SEVEN Enlisted Services and Records Division To: Head, Correspondence and Services Branch (Pers-E24) Subj: NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement, 393 07 21, ex-CPhoM, USN Eligibility for awards earned during enlisted service Encl: (1) Copy of your spdltr of 14 Nov 56 1. The records of the Bureau reveal that subject officer earned the following awards for his enlisted service as indicated by (X) below. Medals that have been previously issued are indicated by an asterisk. ( ) (*) Good Conduct Medal 1937 2 Bronze Star(s) in lieu of 2nd & 3rd awards ( ) American Defense Service Medal with ( ) Bronze Letter "A" ( ) Fleet/Base Clasp ( ) American Campaign Medal ( ) European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal ( ) Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal ( ) World War II Victory Medal ( ) Navy Occupation Service Medal with " " Clasp ( ) China Service Medal (Extended) ( ) National Defense Service Medal ( ) Korean Service Medal ( ) United Nations Medal ( ) Philippine _______________ Ribbon ( ) Korean Presidential Unit Citation [Signature] Finished File Pers-E243 Note: The signature is rendered as "[Signature]" since it is handwritten and not fully legible as typed text. The redacted portions are not present in the visible text, so no [redacted] is used. The handwritten note "Finished File Pers-E243" and the signature are included as they appear at the 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.