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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 GLM-OCR

This 1957 U.S. Navy personnel file was released under the U.S. Department of War name. It covers Chief Photographer Delbert Clement Newhouse, CWO-4, USN. It holds Records of Emergency Data from 1955 to 1957, a 2 May 1957 request that changed his home of record to Pensacola, Florida, and vouchers for his dependents' travel. It also includes fitness reports from his time as Photographic Officer at the U.S. Naval Base at Santa Elena Bay, Ecuador, and with the Fifteenth Naval District in 1942 and 1943. The file contains no UFO material.

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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1. In the event this claim involves travel under secret or confidential orders, or orders from which the location of the old or new duty station is omitted for reasons of security, or under orders effecting assignment to or from sea duty or to or from a place to which dependents are not permitted to go, careful attention should be given to SecNav letter of 23 December 1944, particularly paragraphs 2, 3, 6 and 10.

2. If your claim is not submitted under SeeNav letter of 23 December 1944 (Instruction 1, above), the original and two certified copies of all orders involved, with all endorsements, must accompany claim.

3. Claim should be prepared and forwarded to BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, Washington 25, D. C., in accordance with Article 2513, U. S. Navy Travel Instructions.

4. CLAIM MUST BE SUBMITTED IN QUADRUPLICATE. The original is to be on NAV. S. and A. Form 912—Rev. and signed in ink on the face. Three copies (unsigned) to be on NAV. S. and A. Form 913—Rev.

5. SECURELY STAPLE ALL PAPERS TOGETHER.

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6. The space below is to be used for any additional information by claimant which is necessary in settlement of this claim.

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I certify, except as noted hereon, that no prior claim has been presented by me or by any member of my family for the reimbursement for transportation of dependents as claimed herein and that my dependents traveled at my own personal expense as listed herein and that no transportation in kind has been furnished with the exception of travel performed via government vessel from San Francisco, Calif to Guam, M.I.

I further certify that my dependents were not authorized to travel to Guam, M.I. at the time I departed from my old permanent duty station due to the un- availability or housing. My dependents will travel(ed) from the designated place to Guam, M.I. upon certification of housing by ComNavMarianas

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 585 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.