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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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READ CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED BELOW

TO: Chief of Naval Personnel

FROM (Commanding officer)	SHIP OR STATION
EDWIN L. KIEM, CDR, USN	NATECHTRAU, NAS, Pensacola, Florida
In conformity with requirements of U. S. Navy Regulations, I report the following leave of absence taken by:
NAME (Last)	(First)	(Middle)	GRADE AND CORPS
NEWHOUSE	Delbert	Clement	CW04/USN
NOTICE: Complete either A or B; do NOT use both for same leave	FILE NO.
A. TOTAL NO. OF DAYS LEAVE
INCLUDING ANY TRAVEL TIME ___	LEAVE CREDIT REMAINING AS
INDICATED ON OFFICER'S LEAVE
RECORD (NAVPERS-329)
UNDER ORDERS OF
VU-5 Orders #121	DATED
23 January 1956

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This report will be made at expiration of leave by the immediate superior of the officer to whom the leave is granted and forwarded immediately to the Chief of Naval Personnel. Care must be taken to insure that correct number of days leave are reported.

2. The day of departure from station or duty counts as a day of duty; the day of return as a day of leave, except when such return is made

before 0900, in which case it shall not be counted as a day of leave. This refers to leave taken when not detached from ship or station (see Article C-6313 BuPers Manual).

3. In cases of authorized delay counting as leave, this form is to be submitted in addition to one copy of each set of basic orders with all endorsements thereon, as required by BuPers Manual Article C-5407(4).

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 10-52637-5

NAME (Last)	(First)	(Middle)	GRADE AND CORPS	FILE NO.
NEWHOUSE	Delbert	Clement	CWO/USN	177283/8311
NOTICE: Complete either A or B; do NOT use both for same leave	LEAVE CREDIT REMAINING AS INDICATED ON OFFICER'S LEAVE RECORD (NAVPERS-329)
A. TOTAL NO. OF DAYS LEAVE INCLUDING ANY TRAVEL TIME 10	21
B. DELAY COUNTING AS LEAVE OR LEAVE BETWEEN STATIONS (Total number of days, excluding preparation period of 4 days and excluding allowance for travel time from old to new station via shortest usually traveled route.)
UNDER ORDERS OF	DATED

1. This report will be made at expiration of leave by the immediate superior of the officer to whom the leave is granted and forwarded immediately to the Chief of Naval Personnel. Care must be taken to insure that correct number of days leave are reported.

2. The day of departure from station or duty counts as a day of duty; the day of return as a day of leave, except when such return is made

before 0900, in which case it shall not be counted as a day of leave. This refers to leave taken when not detached from ship or station (see Article C-6313 BuPers Manual).

3. In cases of authorized delay counting as leave, this form is to be submitted in addition to one copy of each set of basic orders with all endorsements thereon, as required by BuPers Manual Article C-5407(4).

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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.