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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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# DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

IN REPLY REFER TO

Pers-B52-HOA/cg

177283/8311

11 FEB 1960

THIRD ENDORSEMENT on ltr of CHPHOT, W-4 Delbert Clement NEWHOUSE, USN dated 5 January 1960

From: Chief of Naval Personnel

To: Secretary of the Navy

Subj: Transfer to the Retired List of; Chief Photographer, W-4 Delbert Clement NEWHOUSE, U. S. Navy

Ref: (a) SECNAVINST 1811.3A

1. Forwarded.

2. The request submitted in basic letter does not fall within any of the criteria of sub-paragraph 4.a. of reference (a). However, its approval would not be contrary to the best interests of the Service.

3. Pursuant to the foregoing and sub-paragraph 4.b. of reference (a), I recommend that the attached request of subject named officer to be transferred to the retired list of officers of the Navy after completing more than twenty-seven years' service be approved, effective 1 April 1960, and that he be transferred to the retired list in his present grade, or such other grade as he may be entitled to on date of retirement, in accordance with the provisions of U. S. Code, Title 10, Sections 1293, 1315 and 1371.

ALMON E. LOOMIS

Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel

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