Documents / Report
Project Twinkle Final Report (scan)
NICAP · 29 pages · text by OCR
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.
“declassified”17 pages
- p. 1 …TWINKLE, Project
DOWNGRADED AT 8 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200,10.
UNCLASSIFIED
- p. 2 …Geophysics Research Division
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS;
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 3 …sharp eye on anything unusual along this line.
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 4 …UNCLASSIFIED DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS DECLASSIFIED AFTER
OWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12…
- p. 7 …LOW GRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 8 …few reports of
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 9 …DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
CONFIDENTIAL
6
UNCLASSIFIED
- p. 12 …CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLASSIFIED
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 6200.10
- p. 14 …Geophysics Research Division
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 19 …Field Test Director
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 21 …1b abv
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAI
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOQ DIR 6200.10
Copy…
- p. 22 …DOWNGRADED AT 2 YEAR INTERVAL
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DQD DIR E200.10
- p. 23 …USAF
enclosure 2
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DID 5200.10
- p. 24 …Basic Letter DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
UNCLASSIFIED
- p. 26 …Research and Development
DOWNGRADED AT 8 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10
- p. 28 …The Scientific Advisory Board Secretariat has suggested that this project not be declassified for a variety…
- p. 29 …It is not considered appropriate to declassify the project at this time since no definite conclusions…
# UNCLASSIFIED
It should be noted that Dr. Whipple made a careful study of meteor photographs taken in New Mexico on 35 nights when observations were reported. None of the photographs revealed the presence of unusual sky phenomena.
Finally, the overall picture obtained from the year of vigilance and inquiry does not permit a conclusive opinion concerning the aerial phenomena of interest. The comparatively high incidence of the phenomena since 1948 does not necessarily indicate that the objects are man-made. It is conceivable that the earth may be passing through a region in space of high meteoric population. Also, the sun-spot maxima in 1948 perhaps in some way may be a contributing factor.
6. Recommendations
Since the findings to date cannot be considered conclusive, it appears that the following recommendations would be pertinent:
About this file
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.