Project Twinkle Final Report, November 1951

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This Black Vault copy of Air Force records centers on the Project Twinkle Final Report, which Louis Elterman of the Geophysics Research Division wrote on 27 November 1951. Project Twinkle investigated green fireballs and other light phenomena in New Mexico using Askania cameras run by Land-Air at Vaughn and Holloman AFB. Elterman found the results essentially negative, with most sightings put down to aircraft, balloons, birds, clouds and meteors. He recommended no further spending. The file also includes the 1949 and 1950 correspondence that set up the project and 1952 memos about declassifying it.

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p. 6 …Lincoln La Paz , who expressed disbelief in all aerial phenonena except for the green fire- balls…
p. 11 …Large reddi s h dot , dull apocaro.nce \-ThieL turned brieht green. Obs erved • for three…
p. 17 …Cambridge Research Laboratories letter, dated 7 November 1949, subject: "Report of Conference on ''Green Fireballs" (Project…
p. 18 …Report of Conference on Green Fireballs" (Project Gr1dge) TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson…
p. 19 …Report of Cotlference on "Green Fireballs'' (Project Grudge) 5. It was the conclusion of the group…
p. 20 …Cambridge Research Laboratories letters , dated 7 IJovember 1949, subject: "Report of Conference on ' Green Fireballs" (Project…
p. 21 …Partj.cular attention was eiven t o the "green fire~ ball" var iety by Dr . Joseph…
p. 30 …rrhere has been no in- dication that even the somewhat strange observations often called Green Fireballs…

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