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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)
  • p. 20 …SULLENS, LT., SC, USNR For E. D. SPENCER, LT.,SC, USN 538868 Subj: Change of duty…

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NAME	RELATIONSHIP	BIRTH DATES OF CHILDREN
Norma Isobal Newhouse	wife
Dalbert G. Newhouse	son	6-28-38
Anne Lisbot Newhouse	daughter	3-14-40
LOCATION OF DEPENDENTS	On date of receipt of orders/authority street address, city, state	DATE OF DEPARTURE
DESIGNATED DEPENDENTS 7-19-56
NOTE	When travel is from other than vicinity of the old station or to other than vicinity of the new station, explain circumstances on the reverse.
KIND (Rail, air, etc.)	If none, to state
PLACE OF LOCATION	Date of arrival
DESTINATION	Date of arrival
TRAVEL COVERED BY THIS CLAIM REPRESENTS ENTIRE TRAVEL OF ALL MY DEPENDENTS ON THIS CHANGE OF STATION EXCEPT:
PENALTY FOR PRESENTING FRAUDULENT CLAIM — Fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than 5 years or both. Title 18, U.S.C. 287; Id. 1001.
FORFEITURE OF FRAUDULENT CLAIM — Falsification of an item in an expense account works a forfeiture of the claim. Title 28, U.S.C. 2514.
SIGN. CERTIFY that this voucher and attachments are correct and just in all respects and that payment therefor has not been received. No prior claim has been presented by me or any member of my family for the travel of dependents as claimed herein.
SIGNATURE OF PAYEE: WELB ET C. NEWHOUSE (To) AUG-3-56 FOR
AUTHORIZED ALLOWANCE (From WELB ET C. NEWHOUSE) $
Pursuant to authority vested in the certify this voucher to be correct and proper payment. AUTHORIZED CERTIFYING OFFICER: F. DODDY, ACCOUNTING CLASSIFICATION: 8-3-56
Appropriation Symbol and Subhead	Object Class	Expenditure Account	Chargeable Activity	Bureau Control Activity No.	Bureau Control No.	Amount
17, 1453.18 MPN 56	029	74250	22	81600
PAID BY CHECK	PAID BY CHECK	SIGNATURE OF PAYEE (Required for cash payment only)
Check number	Amount $	Signature of PAYEE
Date of check	Date paid
DD. FORM	766	MEMORANDUM COPY

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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.