UFO History

 

On 27 November 1951, at the Cambridge Research Laboratory’s produces its final report on “peculiar light phenomena that had been observed in the skies of the southwestern United States”. (The relevant observations are commonly referred to as “green fireballs”).

(The relevant report is commonly referred to as “the Project Twinkle report”)

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

Image of Project Twinkle final report presented by Stone, Clifford E in his “UFOs are Real“ (1997) as Document 1-7a to 1-7p on the unnumbered pages after page 10 (in Chapter 1) of the SPI softcover edition.

Relatively lengthy extract of Project Twinkle report presented by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 251-259 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition under the heading (forming part of “Chapter Nine: A Summary of Project Grudge”).

For discussion of Project Twinkle’s final report see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1998	Clark, Jerome in “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 460 (forming part of the entry entitled “Green Fireballs and Other Southwestern Lights” at pages 454-461) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.	1
1998	Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 261-263 (in an entry entitled “Green Fireballs and Other Southwestern Lights”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.	3
1992	Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-190 (in an entry entitled “Green Fireballs and Other Southwestern Lights”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.	2
1976	Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 393 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.	1
2000	Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-153 (in Chapter 15) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.	4
1980	Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 261 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Project Twinkle”.	1

 

Other Material

See also the references provided in relation to the entry for Project Twinkle.

Complete images of the Project Twinkle Report included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-491 (page 491 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-503 (page 503 of 1014).

Complete images of the Project Twinkle Report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,362. Images of the document are at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-888 (page 888 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-903 (page 903 of 1537).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org