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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.
• • • • ' c . 0p y R- 114- 165 ELNaton/elf Am I1AIL 11 Dec J951 SUBJECT: Transmittal of Final Renort of Project Twinkle TO : Director of Research and Development Headquarters , USAF ' • 1. Twinkle , ATTN : AFDR.u-RE, Colonel John Tucker \lashington 25, D. C• • • •• "Inclosed is a cony of the Final Heoort on .t'roject forl'Jarded at your reques G. 2. As there is interest in this matter outside of the Deoartment of Defense , \ole have recommended to Hq . , ABDC:; that consideration be piven to its declassification, particularly in view of the fac t that no~hing of a security nature has been discover ed . 1 Incl a/ s FOR TH~ COl~ IANuiNG G ~ULRAL : EPHRAIN RAutn.R Chief, Operations Section Plans and Onerations Branch Geophysics Research Vivision .. 1' \ ..~ ALS · } HS. ' • • or ICL .s:;r-p::o
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.