1948 New Mexico Green Fireballs: Project Twinkle, Theories, and an Unresolved Mystery
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Bright green fireballs over central New Mexico in 1948 near Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories led the U.S. government to investigate their origin, weighing possibilities from meteors and atmospheric phenomena to military experiments or extraterrestrial activity, but Project Twinkle produced no conclusive answer, leaving the events a lasting mystery at the crossroads of science, national security, and human curiosity.