Dr. Louis Elterman.

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Atmospheric physicist who served as director of Project Twinkle and authored its November 1951 final report. The report judged the project a failure (incomplete data, no funding for follow-up…

Atmospheric physicist who served as director of Project Twinkle and authored its November 1951 final report. The report judged the project a failure (incomplete data, no funding for follow-up analysis) and concluded the green fireballs were 'anything but natural phenomena' could not be shown — i.e., probably natural (candidate causes: unusual meteor concentrations, sunspot activity) — while explicitly noting 'considerable doubt in the minds of some of the project personnel that this is a natural phenomenon.'.

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