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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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[figure] DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL WASHINGTON 25, D. C. IN REPLY REFER TO Pers-E222-cm 19 Apr 1954 --- MEMORANDUM FOR THE FITNESS REPORT JACKET OF: NAME PHOTO USN GRADE FILE NO. NEWHOUSE, Delbert C. 177283 PERIOD OF REPORT 7 March 1943 to 14 June 1943 --- 1. (X) It was not considered appropriate to attempt to obtain the fitness report for the above period in view of the time elapsed and the probability that such a report, depending for its accuracy upon the memory of the reporting senior over such a period of time, would not be of significant value in the evaluation of the officer concerned. ( ) Efforts to obtain a fitness report for the above period have been unsuccessful because the reporting senior is unavailable, or the nature of the duty performed was such that the identity of the reporting senior could not be determined from the information available. Experience indicates that correspondence with officers higher in the chain of command would result in a report of little or no value due to lack of opportunity for observation. 2. A review of the officer's record on file in this Bureau for the above period shows: - [X] No pertinent information. - [ ] The following pertinent information: 3. The officer was assigned the following duties during the above period: On Staff, Office of Commandant, FIFTEENTH Naval District. 4. This memorandum is being filed in lieu of a fitness report for the above period. The Judge Advocate General has confirmed the legality of this procedure. --- [figure] E. C. FINNEY, CDR, USN Director, Officer and Miscellaneous Records Division --- E20037

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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.