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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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“Sightings”8 pages

  • p. 4 …No sightings were made by the Askania cameras. Nothing whatsoever was reported by the Northrup pilots…
  • p. 5 …Some photographic activity occurred on 27 April and 24 May, but simultaneous sightings by both cameras…
  • p. 9 …However, on 14 March 1951, nine Bell personnel reported sighting between fourteen and twenty bodies "not…
  • p. 10 …Land-Air has agreed to report and if possible photograph any abnormal sightings made during their…
  • p. 12 …Many of the sightings are attributable to natural phenomena such as flight of birds, planets, meteors…
  • p. 18 …Unidentified Flying Objects The following Bell Personnel reported the sighting of unidentified flying objects on March…
  • p. 19 …Total time of observation, from time of first sighting, was approximately 15 minutes. It is of…
  • p. 29 …investigate reports of all unidentified flying object sightings. Project "Grudge" is still in the investigative analysis…
ELNaton/elf ONCLASSIFIED

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SUBJECT: Transmittal of Final Report of Project Twinkle

Director of Research and Development Headquarters, USAF ATTN: AFDRL-RE, Colonel John Tucker Washington 25, D. C.

1. Inclosed is a copy of the Final Report on Project Twinkle, forwarded at your request.

2. As there is interest in this matter outside of the Department of Defense, we have recommended to Hq., ABDC; that consideration be given to its declassification, particularly in view of the fact that nothing of a security nature has been discovered.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

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EPIRAIN RADNER Chief, Operations Section Plans and Operations Branch Geophysics Research Division

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS;

DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.

DOD DIR 5200.10

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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.