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Project Twinkle Final Report (scan)

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This declassified U.S. Air Force file contains the final report of Project Twinkle, dated 27 November 1951 and written by Louis Elterman of the Geophysics Research Division, together with related correspondence. The project was set up to investigate the green fireballs and other light phenomena around Holloman AFB and Vaughn, New Mexico, and it was run with Askania cameras. The report calls its findings essentially negative and recommends no further funding. In March 1952 the Directorate of Intelligence declined to declassify it.

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“small beings”5 pages

  • p. 3 …Others can be attributed to natural phenomena such as flying birds, small clouds, and meteorites. There…
  • p. 11 # CONEIDENCIAL this could be done by Land-Air at the additional expense in the near future…
  • p. 15 …Tear shaped object with small tail; very bright appearance; descended slowly; sky lighted up for about…
  • p. 18 …At the first sighting due neither to the distance involved or small individual size of the…
  • p. 27 …Whipple's suggestion that these may be moon reflections on small clouds cannot be discounted. That…
UNCLASSIFIED

APPROVED:

L. ELTERMAN

P. H. WYCKOFF Chief, Atmospheric Physics Laboratory

27 November 1951

1. TWINKLE, Project

DOWNGRADED AT 8 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200,10.

UNCLASSIFIED

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