Hello. So I worked at Holloman Air Force Base from '49 to '52. Started as a junior technician with the phototheodolite crews at White Sands. And here's the thing, I saw those green fireballs myself. More than once. Look, I wasn't supposed to be reading those reports. But when you're manning an observation post at three in the morning, you start digging through files. And that's when I found the Project TWINKLE documentation. All of it. The conference notes from Los Alamos. Dr. Mitchell's findings. The stuff they left out of the final report. What I'm about to tell you is documented. Every word. You can verify it. But nobody talks about what we actually recorded at those stations.
The sightings started December 5th, 1948. Two aircraft crews, one civilian, one military, both reported seeing a bright green ball of fire moving west to east over New Mexico. One pilot said it came straight at his plane, made him swerve to avoid it. He described it like painting a softball with fluorescent green paint and throwing it at your face as hard as possible. December 6th, another sighting. December 7th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 28th. Every few days, sometimes multiple times a night. And here's what scared everyone, they were all concentrated around Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Sandia Base. Our atomic weapons facilities. Where we were designing the hydrogen bomb. The Air Force brought in Dr. Lincoln Mitchell from the University of New Mexico. Meteor specialist, founded their Institute of Meteoritics. He interviewed over a hundred witnesses. Plotted trajectories. Searched for impact sites. Found nothing. No meteor fragments, no debris, no craters. And here's the thing, meteors don't change direction mid-flight.
December 20th, 1948, that's when Dr. Mitchell wrote his classified letter to the Air Force. I found a copy in the files. He stated flat out that the objects moved too slowly to be meteors, left no trail of sparks or dust, and followed horizontal trajectories. Meteors fall, they don't fly level. On December 12th he'd personally observed one that was also visible from Los Alamos, let him triangulate the path. It went directly over Los Alamos. Eight to ten miles altitude, no sound, intense lime-green color. January 13th, 1949, the Director of Army Intelligence from Fourth Army Headquarters in Texas sent a memo. I remember the exact wording because I copied it down. The green fireballs might be 'the result of radiological warfare experiments by a foreign power' and were 'of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations' that a scientific board should study them. They were afraid the Soviets were testing some kind of reconnaissance device over our nuclear labs. February 16th, 1949, they held a conference at Los Alamos. Dr. Edward Strauss was there, the hydrogen bomb physicist. Dr. Jonathan Kramer, upper atmosphere expert. Military brass, Project Sign personnel, and Dr. Mitchell. The meeting transcript exists. They couldn't agree on what the fireballs were, but everybody agreed they were real. Too many credible witnesses. Pilots, scientists, intelligence officers, all describing the same thing.
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