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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 from the file's own layer

This file comes from the U.S. Navy and is dated 2 May 1957. It is the closed personnel record of Chief Photographer Delbert Clement Newhouse, USN, service number 177283. It holds Records of Emergency Data from 1955 to 1957 that name his wife Norma Isobel Newhouse and their two children, along with dependents' travel claims, an awards endorsement, and a 1957 change of his home of record from Garibaldi, Oregon, to Pensacola, Florida. It also includes a fitness report calling his work as Photographer entirely satisfactory.

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.

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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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177283/8311
12 DEC 1956
FIRST ENOORSEMENI' on BuPers ltr Pers F24-Ifbmjs of 10 D'eo 1956
From: Commanding Officer, Naval Air Technical Training Unit, Navo.l Air
Station, Pensacola, Florida
To: GHPHCll', vl-4 Delbert O. NEWHOUSE, USN
Subj: Awards; information concerning
l. Delivered.
EDWIN L. KilM
Copy to:
BuPers (Per& F24) • ........,em

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