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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

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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# (FORM FOR OFFICERS WITH PRIOR ENLISTED SERVICE)

Name NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement

1. I had enlisted service subsequent to 7 September 1939 in a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States as follows:

Date of Enlistment Branch of Service Enlisted Serial No.

24 January 1939 U. S. Navy 393 07 21

Days of leave	Fiscal Year	Days of leave	Fiscal Year
19	1940

3. During the above period (a) of service I was AWOL, AOL or in confinement as a result of sentence of a court martial...days.

4. (a) I was appointed a commissioned or warrant officer directly from enlisted status on... 1 September 1942... Or

4. (b) I was discharged from...on...at which time my enlisted rank or rating was...and I was appointed a commissioned or warrant officer on...

5. At the date of my discharge, or appointment (as indicated in 4 (a) or (b) above) I was (was not) serving in one of the first three pay grades.

6. If the statement above is in the affirmative I did (did not) have a dependent.

7. I attach the following documents: Acceptances of appointments as PHOT, USN; ENS. USN; LTJG. USN; and LT. USN.

8. I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am the person who served in the Armed Forces under the name stated above and that the foregoing statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Subscribed and sworn to before me on NOV 25 1946

(After completing this form attach it securely to the Officer Claim Form.) End-1. NOV 25 1946

To: Officer in Charge Terminal Leave Disbursing Office.

Examination of the claimants entitled notice shows that or the late occuring the late of appointment is shown in paragraph 4 (a) above describing in the order of

Service record of LT NEWHOUSE cannot be examined; record forwarded to BuPers at time of NEWHOUSE'S discharge from permanent enlisted status to accept permanent appointment as Chief Photographer on 25 Sept 1946. PH----10-10-46----5,6

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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; expect the odd misread word. 585 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.