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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.
“The Times”5 pages
UNCLASSIFIED PROJECT TWINKLE FINAL REPORT Director Aerospace Studies Inst ATTN: Archives Branch Maxwell AFB, Alabama APPROVED: L. ELTERMAN 27 November 1951 10. TWINKLE, Project! P. H. WYCKOFF Chief, Atmospheric Physics Laboratory DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200,10.
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