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The Project Twinkle Final Report, approved 27 November 1951 by Louis Elterman of the Air Force Geophysics Research Division's Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, describes a camera and observation program begun in 1950 to investigate green fireballs and other light phenomena over New Mexico, at Vaughn and Holloman AFB. It says the findings were essentially negative and puts most sightings down to aircraft, balloons, birds, planets, meteors or clouds. It recommends no further spending, with meteor camera film to be checked instead.
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ELNaton/elf ## CRNTO SUBJECT: Transmittal of Final Report of Project Twinkle Director of Research and Development Headquarters, USAF ATTN: AFDRL-RE, Colonel John Tucker Washington 25, D. C. 1. Inclosed is a copy of the Final Report on Project Twinkle, forwarded at your request. 2. As there is interest in this matter outside of the Department of Defense, we have recommended to Hq., ABDC, that consideration be given to its declassification, particularly in view of the fact that nothing of a security nature has been discovered. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: EPHRAIN RADNER Chief, Operations Section Plans and Operations Branch Geophysics Research Division DOWNCHADED AT 3 YEAR EXTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
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