Documents / Report
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.
• CLAS .. 1 '2 lfur . 1951 - Report f rom Albuquer oue , H. l1. by t\.ro individuals • of ba11- shaoed object, shining- v1hite apucarance . rrhe ob jec t des cended rapi dly to the horizon • • 1 April 1951 - Renort from a Los Almms employee . Oblong shaped object movin ~ slowly both in horizontal and vertical direc tions . Bright appearance . 7 June 1951 - Repor t from a Los Alamos employee . Pointed cylinder in vertica l position . Cloth- like cons t ruction . Fell in canyon at 11 : 10 A.H. Search oarty \;.ras unable to find the object or any rc1.1ains . 8 June 1951 - Report f r om a ws Alamos employee . Large reddi s h dot , dull apocaro.nce \-ThieL turned brieht green. Obs erved • for three seconds • • • • 13 ••
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.