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Project Twinkle Final Report 1951 (PDF)

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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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“meteor”6 pages

  • p. 2 …keep in connection with one of our meteor studies a sharp eye on anything unusual along…
  • p. 8 …Even during the meteor shower of 11-12 August 1951, no alarming reports were received. However…
  • p. 11 …Many of the sightings are attributable to natural phenomena such as flight of birds, planets, meteors…
  • p. 12 …Whipple made a careful study of meteor photographs taken in New Mexico on 35 nights when…
  • p. 13 …Whipple will have completed the installation of two 18-inch Schmidt cameras for meteor studies. The…
  • p. 16 …Investigators believed this to be a meteor. - Report from four Los Alamos personnel of very bright…
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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