Los Alamos conference on the green fireballs launches Project Twinkle

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Los Alamos lab staff met with FBI, Atomic Energy Commission and military representatives to discuss green fireballs seen over New Mexico. The meeting judged them no serious threat and led to Project Twinkle, a camera watch that was never fully set up and ended about two years later.

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  1. OfficialFOIA requests at the National Security Research Center (The Vault) (opens in a new tab)Los Alamos National Laboratory

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This reports on New Mexico green fireballs (5 Dec 1948).

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