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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode, we're talking 
about the Socorro Fireballs of 

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1949. 
That's correct, the Socorro 

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Fireballs of 1949. 
This whole story's been around 

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for a little while, but I bring 
this up because of this recent 

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document dump. 
This came out today. 

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More of this stuff in the 
Department of War. 

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I have to tell you, there's a 
lot of stuff mixed in with this 

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and I have to ask myself, why is
it even classified? 

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I mean, it really is a dump and 
it's, there's so much volume 

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here that you literally have to 
go through file by file. 

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And I don't think I could even 
go through it if it wasn't for 

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AI going through and reviewing 
some of the stuff and sorting 

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out the wheat from the shaft. 
Now, the file we're looking at 

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is the second one on the 
Department of War UFO website. 

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You can go to yourself and look 
at it. 

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And I asked, I asked Grok to go 
ahead and do a little bit of a 

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summary of this thing. 
And it says Summary of the 

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DOWAPDO 17 General 
Correspondence of Sandia 1949. 

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This is a 116 page declassified 
collection of 1949 

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correspondence and reports 
primarily for Sandia Base, 

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Albuquerque, NM, and related 
military scientific personnel. 

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It focuses on security matters 
at sensitive nuclear related 

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facilities and investigations 
into the green of fireballs, an 

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unusual luminous phenomena 
frequently reported over New 

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Mexico in 1948 to 1949, 
especially near Los Alamos and 

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Sandia. 
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It starts off with some routine 
conversation about some 

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maintenance work that needs to 
be done to prevent some erosion 

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at a site, and then it moves 
right into this next page, it 

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says. 
Main sections and topics base 

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security correspondence, 
airborne particle collections, 

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and fireball analysis. 
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The core scientific content 
involves attempts to link green 

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fireballs to physical evidence. 
After a prominent green fireball

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sighting over Socora on July 
24th, 1949, researchers, notably

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Dr. William Crozier and Ben 
Seeley from the New Mexico 

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School of Mines used impactor 
collectors and it's air sampling

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devices with adhesive slides 
treated to detect copper, nickel

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and cobalt to collect airborne 
particles tells us key findings.

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Early collections hours after 
the event showed unusually large

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copper bearing particles up to 
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opaque, others granular. 
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that you would have these 
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fireballs, and then when they 
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copper. 
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copper with the color green. 
Some nickel and cobalt 

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indications were found, 
including spherical particles, 

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which raised questions about 
possible meteoric origin. 

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And it says particle sizes and 
counts varied over days. 

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Smaller particles appeared 
later. 

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However, conclusions were 
cautious or inconclusive. 

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Many particles could be of local
terrestrial origin, stirred up 

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by Rd. dust or from nearby 
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No definitive link in the 
fireball was established. 

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Well I guess it would have been 
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before and after, but you really
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bothered to test till after they
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It says these documents that 
they released sheriff and 

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department were includes tables 
or particle counts by size and 

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date, plus discussions of 
collection methods and 

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limitations. 
Basically, they just created a 

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scientific paper now. 
Broader contexts and 

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recommendations. 
References to Doctor Lincoln La 

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Paz Institute of Meteorites, 
University of New Mexico, in 

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coordination with military 
intelligence. 

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Suggestions for improved 
collection mentions a Project 

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grudge early USOUS Air Force UFO
investigation. 

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Yeah, what an aptly named 
project there. 

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Project grudge. 
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because we were being forced to 
go out and investigate all these

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wacky UFO claims, huh? 
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significance. 
It says the document reflects 

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early Cold War era concern over 
unexplained aerial phenomena 

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near key nuclear weapon sites. 
Sandia, Los Alamos scientist and

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military personnel took the 
green fireballs seriously enough

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to conduct physical sampling and
lab analysis, but results 

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remained ambiguous. 
Typical of the era's UFO 

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investigations. 
No exotic conclusions were 

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reached. 
Emphasis was on rigorous 

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evidence based study. 
The PDF has OCR imperfections. 

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It says old type art text, but 
the content is coherent. 

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Yeah, thank you very much for 
doing that. 

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Chat, GP or Crock. 
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little bit of AI on this because
let's just face it, there's so 

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much stuff here, I could spend 
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and I haven't got that kind of 
time. 

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And I don't suppose you do 
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This, says the 1949 Scirocco 
Fireball, is best remembered as 

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part of the infamous Green 
Fireballs phenomena, a wave of 

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highly unusual bright glowing 
aerial objects that frequently 

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streaked over the New York, the 
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nuclear installations. 
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this very, I guess, fascination 
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nuclear installations. 
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sightings what happened starting
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through 1949, witnesses, 
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military pilots reported 
brilliant, luminous green balls 

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of fire. 
Socorro Connection, a 

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declassified 1949 Sandia based 
document, detailed unusual 

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copper bearing airborne 
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of the fireballs events near 
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because of the Because these 
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appeared over top secret 
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National Labs and the Sandia 
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The Air Force established an 
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them, leading to a specialized 
military and scientific study 

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called Project Twinkle. 
But they love these names, don't

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they? 
Project Twinkle Astronomer 

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Lincoln La Paz Dr. Lincoln La 
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University of New Mexico who 
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events, pointed out that the 
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these fireballs were highly 
uncharacteristic of conventional

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meteors. 
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expert on meteors and he's 
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like meteors to me. 
The Soviet spy fear In early 

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1940, Army intelligence 
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that these objects could be 
radiological warfare experiments

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or guided missiles launched by a
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targeting US atomic 
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Yeah, the very same people who 
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technology from the United 
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Remember the Rosebergs? 
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to ignite green fireballs over 
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Official conclusion. 
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investigators like Project 
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the official stance was that the
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natural phenomena such as high 
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anomalies. 
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like swamp gas, I guess. 
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strange happened there and the 
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write it off to a natural 
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Before I get into this project, 
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want to remind people Socorro NM
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You might be thinking about 
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This was the Lonnie Zamora event
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tells us a famous Socorro NM UFO
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24th, 1964. 
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than 49. 
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Zamora witnessed an egg shaped 
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It left physical landing gear, 
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remaining officially unexplained
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Now remember Mr. Zamora, he 
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Up until his death, he always 
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While the major Sakura event 
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files, including records 
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that New Mexico experienced a 
massive wave of green fireball 

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phenomena and unidentified 
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This prompted physicists, 
astrophysicists and the FBI to 

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hold secret conferences in Los 
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sightings. 
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incident, just the highlights of
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We've talked about this on the 
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do another story. 
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pursuing A speeding car, Officer
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saw a flame in the desert. 
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found an egg shaped metallic 
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The occupants, Zamora observed 2
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the object. 
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again. 
We we hear about these coveralls

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clear back into the 1800s when 
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airships, it says. 
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and a blast of blue to orange 
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When he looked back, the UFO was
speeding away horizontally 

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across the desert floor. 
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So the police officer, he's 
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he sees this flame, whatever, 
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the desert, and here's this egg 
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perched on 4 legs, sitting out 
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He gets out, has a look, sees 2 
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wearing these white coveralls. 
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And then I was watching him. 
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happens. 
A blue orange flame comes out of

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the craft. 
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you'd think. 
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horizontally across the desert 
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Investigating officers and 
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landing impressions in the soil 
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Insignia. 
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distinct red Insignia on the 
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sketched for investigators. 
Yeah, that was quite strange. 

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This has got a lot of of of 
depth to the story. 

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Like I said, we'll have to come 
back to this. 

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Now getting back to this idea of
this Project Twinkle, let's take

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a look at that real quick. 
Project Twinkle, we're told, was

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a short lived secret United 
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launched in 1950 to study a 
massive wave of mysterious green

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fireballs reported over New 
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Operated by the Air Material 
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Development Command, it served 
as a specialized sub project 

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under the broader military UFO 
investigation of Project Grudge.

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Between late 1948 and 1950, 
military personnel, civilians, 

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and elite scientists working at 
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Laboratory witnessed over 150 
incidents of strange bright 

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green lights in the sky. 
Does not seem odd to you that 

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this all happened right at this 
time where they're doing all 

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this research on nuclear energy,
nuclear weapons. 

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Unlike typical meteorites, these
objects flew on flat, horizontal

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trajectories parallel to the 
Earth. 

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Just like the spaceship, that 
line Zamora saw flat, 

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horizontal, not up and down. 
They made absolutely no sound. 

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They never left impact craters 
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Because these sites occurred 
directly over sensitive nuclear 

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weapons laboratories and 
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Force Base, the government 
feared they might be secret 

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Soviet spy technology or 
reconnaissance flares, the 

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investigation method. 
Following a secret military 

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conference in Los Alamos in 
1949, the Air Force established 

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Project Twinkle to capture hard 
data. 

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They hired Dr. Lincoln La Paz, A
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head their research. 
The plan was to set up 

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specialized 12 hour observation 
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Syntholidyte tracking cameras 
around Vaughan, New Mexico. 

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If two different posts 
photographed the same fireball 

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simultaneously, scientists could
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speed, altitude, and size. 
Project Twinkle was never fully 

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implemented and was plagued by 
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Huh. 
How amazing. 

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So they can talk about it all 
day long, but they can't provide

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funding to figure out what these
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Plagued by? 
Funding issues, equipment 

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delays, and bad luck. 
Ironically, as soon as the 

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Systematic observation watch was
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sightings abruptly abruptly 
ceased in the area. 

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The cameras never managed to 
capture simultaneous, measurable

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data of a fireball in action. 
Well, this is something we 

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certainly have heard before. 
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discontinued Project Twinkle in 
late 1951. 

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The Project Twinkle final report
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were not a national security 
threat and were likely natural 

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phenomena such as atypical 
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electrical anomalies. 
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several other scientists remain 
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maintaining until their deaths 
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artificial and unexplained. 
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honest, How often do you hear 
about a fireball moving 

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horizontally across the the the 
desert landscape like that? 

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I mean, we've all seen 
meteorites. 

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They come down from the sky and 
sometimes they look like 

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they've, you know, landed 
nearby. 

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Usually they have it because if 
they have, they're going to make

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quite an quite a lot of 
explosion. 

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Yeah. 
Very wild stuff. 

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Now, I do want to give some 
credit to John Greenwald over at

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the Black Fall, because he's, 
he's been on this story for a 

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while. 
That's kind of kind of a little 

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bit of an issue because a lot of
the stuff's being brought up and

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it kind of gives the appearance 
of, you know, this is all brand 

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new information, really. 
It's not. 

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And that's kind of the problem. 
It's like John Greenwald has 

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been spending decades, I think 
by now putting in FOIA request 

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for this stuff. 
And lots of times he gets out, 

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he gets back blacked out pages 
of stuff. 

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If they want real disclosure, 
just give John the documents he 

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asked for, but quit blacking 
them out. 

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And so I want to look at this 
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does deserve some credit in 
this. 

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It's it. 
The articles is by lanl.gov. 

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It says lost. 
This is a lost Alamos 

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publication. 
Queries. 

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Queries from the public can 
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Laura McGinnis, Librarian, 
National Security Research 

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Center. 
It almost feels like they're 

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trying to get ahead of head of 
him a little bit on this on this

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subject. 
This is written, I believe, 

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what, back in 2018 or something.
I don't see a date here on the 

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article itself. 
Did you know that a conference 

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was organized at the lab in 1949
to discuss green fireballs 

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reportedly observed above Los 
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Were it not for the Freedom of 
Information Act, the lab 

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scientific probes into these 
mystery sites might have been 

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lost to time. 
So the concern I have right, you

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see right there is that a lot of
this stuff's already been 

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released to John through FOIA 
request and now they're 

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releasing it on the on the 
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Almost like they're pretending 
like this is all brand new stuff

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and it's not. 
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this document dump. 
Are we getting really new 

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relevant stuff or it's just 
maybe stop there re releasing it

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with a few less lines blacked 
out? 

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I don't know. 
Signed into law in 1967, FOIA 

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gives any person the right to 
access records kept by federal 

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agencies so they can better 
understand the US government's 

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operations and activities. 
Well, I really have questions 

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about that statement. 
Agencies are required to 

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disclose information requested 
under FOIA unless that 

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information falls under one or 
more of nine exemptions 

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protecting interest such as 
personal privacy, national 

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security, and law enforcement. 
Yet often times we see these 

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these pages released and they're
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Often described as the law that 
keeps citizens in the know about

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the government, FOIA is a vital 
part of the US democracy. 

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Again, I really question that 
statement. 

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The Laboratories FOIA program 
fields over 100 requests for 

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records each year as the labs 
classified research and 

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technical library dedicated to 
information stewardship and 

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education. 
The National Security Research 

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Center regularly assists with 
these requests, close to half of

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the yearly volume. 
Yeah, in a perfect world, maybe 

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fulfilling FOIA request is an 
important part of what we do 

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here, said NSRC Senior Archivist
Daniel Alcazar. 

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It's critical to our mission to 
ensure the public has access to 

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information it has a right to 
see. 

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Public queries over a spectrum 
of topics that most involve 

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requests for Manhattan Project 
era technical reports and member

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and Los Animals produced 
historical and scientific films 

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were documents pertaining to 
former employees. 

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While less common, Alcozar 
estimates that he also receives 

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a few FOIA requests every year 
related to unidentified flying 

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objects and other unexplained 
aerial phenomena. 

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I bet it's a few more than that.
Project Twinkle. 

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A mysterious hypothesis. 
Oh boy. 

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Over the years, general FOIA 
request about UFO studies at the

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lab have led to some fascinating
vines. 

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One such example is the 
rediscovery of archive materials

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related to the evening of 
December 5th, 1948, when 

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witnesses reported a green 
fireballs across the sky over 

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Los Alamos. 
The fireballs appeared several 

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times over the next three 
months, flying noiselessly and 

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just with an eyesight of 
residence on the Mesa. 

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Yeah, I read somewhere where it 
was like 209 different 

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sightings. 
Similar phenomena were reported 

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near the Hanford Site, a now 
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production complex in Washington
state, and within 400 miles of 

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Oakridge National Laboratory in 
Tennessee, another site of 

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nuclear fuel production during 
the Manhattan Project. 

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So whatever's going on with that
nuclear fuel production has got 

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these things interested. 
The number of sightings of these

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phenomena and their proximity to
sensitive facilities were of 

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concern to the US government. 
Could the fireballs be a threat 

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to national security? 
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organized at Los Alamos 
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post war name, on February 16th,
1949, to discuss the strange 

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phenomena. 
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scientists such as then 
Laboratory Director Norris 

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Bradbury and physicist Frederick
Ryan's and Edward Teller. 

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That's the atomic bomb guy, as 
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Atomic Energy Commission, the 
precursor to today's Department 

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of Energy, and the US military. 
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Paz, head of the University of 
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Meteoritics and first hand 
observer of the green fireballs.

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The NSRC collections contain the
conference minutes. 

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While the minutes attest that 
Antindees were skeptical of 

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attributing unexplained aerial 
phenomena, the extraterrestrial 

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activity participants from the 
Army confirmed that the 

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fireballs had been classified 
alongside Flying Disk within 

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Project Grudge. 1948 to 1949, 
one of three consecutive US Air 

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Force studies have reported UFO 
sightings. 

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The others were Project Sign 47 
to 48 and later Project Blue 

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Book 52 to 69. 
After further discussion, the 

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notion that green fireballs were
a significant national security 

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threat was ultimately dismissed,
as were hypothesis involving 

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meteorites, Aurora borealis, and
weather balloons. 

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And in other words, they're 
telling you we just don't know 

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what these things are. 
However, the 1949 Los Alamos 

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Conference was the beginning of 
a study called Project Twinkle 

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that aimed to capture further 
data on the fireball sightings 

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through a network of 
observation, post and 

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photographic units. 
Project Twinkle was never fully 

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implemented and was discontinued
after two years with the 

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official conclusion that the 
green fireballs were likely 

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natural origin. 
Now they concluded they were 

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natural origin, but they just 
didn't know how. 

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The NSRC does not appear to have
material salon Project Twinkle, 

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although not all the millions of
items housed in this collection 

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are easily searchable yet. 
How long we had the Internet? 

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2530 years and they still can't 
scan these things so we can 

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search them. 
Forgotten pieces of history are 

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being rediscovered all the time 
in the ongoing process of 

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digitation and cataloguing. 
Whether a four year request 

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unearths one of these treasures 
often depends on how effectively

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the submitted keywords direct 
the archive search. 

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Now I have to call complete BS 
on this. 

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I've seen requests that that 
Greenwald's made and still 

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nothing. 
Crickets, silence or blocked out

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pages. 
So you can see here. 

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This is this to me is a 
government employees getting 

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ahead of the game a little bit. 
If terms provided by a requester

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are overly specific, even 
irrelevant materials could 

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remain undiscovered. 
In cases where a query is too 

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broad in scope or does not 
indicate a specific date range, 

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the LABS FOIA team may suggest 
the National Nuclear Security 

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Administration, which funnels 
the information request to the 

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Lab ask the sender to narrow the
topic of trying frame. 

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Once more specific perimeters 
are established, the search for 

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responsive materials can begin. 
Keyword searches can also be 

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hindered by natural evolution of
language. 

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Now it just continues on with 
this word salad. 

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That's what I'm going to call. 
This is just a giant word salad.

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This is why we can't tell you 
what you're asking us about. 

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I don't know. 
I guess I want to go ahead and 

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just look at this article 
because see, we're, we're being 

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told the stuff that's released 
today is it's being applied that

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it's all brand new information. 
But what I'm seeing is a lot of 

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the stuff that they're releasing
to us in these document dumps, a

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lot of it is stuff that's 
already been referred to already

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been partially released. 
It's kind of along the edges, 

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along the fringes of what's of 
what actually what we need to 

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see. 
And, and I still have not been 

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hearing anything about the Black
Vault getting the documents that

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they already have, but getting 
the versions that are not 

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blacked out. 
Now I want to finish up with 

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this last article from the from 
the Daily Mail. 

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I really hope to be able to find
some contemporaneous newspaper 

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articles from the time, but 
everything I came across is 

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behind a pay wall and it's 
almost like they really want to 

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keep the stuff, you know, the 
original witness accounts out of

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our hands, that's for sure. 
This article here though, is 

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just today, May 22nd, 2026. 
It says UFO files reveal 

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hundreds of sightings over 
America's nuclear weapons 

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headquarters, from glowing green
orbs to flying disc. 

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Written by Stacy Liberatory, US 
Science and Technology Editor 

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The Trump administration's 
second wave of UFO disclosures 

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has revealed a chilling series 
of mysterious sightings near 

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America's principal nuclear 
weapons installation during the 

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earliest years of the Cold War. 
Newly released documents tied to

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Sandy, a base in Albuquerque, 
NM, headquarters of the Armed 

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Forces Special Weapons Project, 
the military successor to the 

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Manhattan Project, detail at 
least 209 reports of unexplained

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aerial phenomena between 
December 1948 and May 1950. 

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Now, they keep saying this stuff
is new, but I just read you the 

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article from 2000, I think it 
was 18 talking about this stuff.

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So a lot of this stuff has kind 
of been regurgitated. 

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The files describe bizarre green
fireballs, glowing disk and 

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unidentified objects streaking 
across the skies near sensitive 

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atomic facilities as 
intelligence officers scrambled 

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to determine whether the 
incidents posed a national 

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security threat. 
One report warned that the 

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frequency of the sightings had 
become so alarming that military

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and government intelligence 
agencies agreed an organized 

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plan of reporting these 
observations should be 

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undertaken. 
Scientists and military 

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investigators were so disturbed 
by the incidents that they 

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launched airborne particle 
collection emissions in the 

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hopes of discovering physical 
evidence connected to the 

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mysterious objects. 
The documents reveal that 

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investigators detected unusual 
copper bearing particles in the 

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airborne dust samples after one 
fiery object exploded over New 

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Mexico in July 1949. 
Now, I'm not sure, she says 

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exploded here because and the 
other writings, we were told 

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they didn't explode. 
They just kind of pass through. 

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Researchers even debated whether
the strange material drifting 

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through the atmosphere could 
have originated from the 

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unidentified fireballs seen over
the desert skies. 

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In one extraordinary passage, 
investigators admitted that if 

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copper particles truly came from
the glowing objects, then the 

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fireballs are not conventional 
meteorites. 

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Well, I'm pretty sure they're 
not if these things are moving 

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sideways horizontally, goes on 
and says the bombshell records 

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were part of the latest UFO 
document released published by 

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the Department of Work as part 
of President Donald Trump's 

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disclosure initiative involving 
unidentified aerial Phenomena, 

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also known as Uaps. 
Among the most striking files 

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was a May 19/25/1950 
intelligence summary from the 

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Air Force Special Investigations
describing repeated sightings 

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across New Mexico during a 
period when Sandia Base served 

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as one of the nation's most 
sensitive nuclear weapons hubs. 

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The report explained that 
military and intelligence 

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officials became increasingly 
alarmed after waves of 

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unexplained aerial sightings 
begin appearing near atomic 

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research and weapons facilities.
Their frequency of the 

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unexplained aerial phenomena in 
the New Mexico area was such 

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that an organized plan of 
reporting these observations 

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should be undertaken. 
The report stated Sandia Base 

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00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000
handled military aspects of 
America's nuclear weapons 

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programs following World War 2. 
The newly released files 

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00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,560
repeatedly referenced Sandia 
Base's connection to spatial 

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weapons operations and 
inspections tied to Strategic 

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Air Command nuclear facilities. 
The several reports focused on 

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mysterious green fireballs 
repeatedly observed over New 

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Mexico during 1949. 
The detailed scientific 

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00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,360
investigation, dated August 
10th, 1949, outlined attempts by

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researchers at the New Mexico 
School of Mines to collect 

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00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,120
airborne particles associated 
with the fireball seen over 

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Socora, New Mexico on July 24th,
1949. 

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Investigators used special 
equipment capable of collecting 

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microscopic airborne material in
the hope that debris from the 

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unexplained object might still 
be floating in the atmosphere. 

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I don't know. 
It seems kind of like a stretch 

483
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,840
to me. 
Goes on down and says. 

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According to the report, 
researchers found a large number

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00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,800
of copper bearing particles in 
one collection sample taken 

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00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,200
along Hwy. 84 N of 66. 
Now it doesn't say that came out

487
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,800
of the dirt if it came out of 
the air, really. 

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00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,360
Scientists described materials 
unfamiliar granular particles, 

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00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,960
some measuring up to 30 microns 
across, while others appeared as

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opaque solid fragments. 
Another report noted that 

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00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,360
investigators found remarkable 
spherical particles showing 

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00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:23,480
strong cobalt indications, with 
some particles described as 

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00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,880
perfect spheres roughly 12 
microns in diameter. 

494
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:30,880
This reminds me of that search 
the Avi Loeb and Charles 

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00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,760
Hoskinson's financed down there 
in Papa Noguini where they 

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00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,680
recovered that stuff at. 
They're talking about these 

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00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,480
Spears. 
They recovered tiny little 

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00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,760
spheres on the ocean floor where
they thought that some kind of a

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00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,720
UFO had had had crashed into the
ocean there. 

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00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,400
The documents repeatedly 
stressed the uncertainty 

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00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,480
surrounding the strange material
quote. 

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00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,920
It seems very hazardous to draw 
any definite conclusion 

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00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,800
associated associating the 
copper bearing particles 

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00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,920
collected with the fireball. 
One report caution. 

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00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,560
Still, the reports acknowledge 
that the possibility could not 

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00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,280
be dismissed. 
One intelligence memo stated 

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00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,680
that if future studies prove the
particles were truly falling 

508
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,600
from the green fireballs, then 
the objects could not be 

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00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,120
explained as ordinary meteorites
because copper was one of the 

510
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,200
rarest of the elements found in 
meteorites. 

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00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,560
Well, that makes sense. 
I mean, if you don't have copper

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00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,200
meteorites, but still the green 
collar. 

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00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,680
The files also reveal that 
investigators consider deploying

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00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,080
high altitude aircraft above 
40,000 feet to intercept 

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00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,120
material falling for the 
mysterious objects Shortly after

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00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,320
settings occurred. 
Researchers believed rapid 

517
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,800
response airborne missions could
potentially capture particles 

518
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,560
directly from the objects 
atmospheric trails before 

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00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,320
contamination from terrestrial 
dust occurred. 

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00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,880
One memo described plans for 
aircraft to fly through the 

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00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,760
exact atmospheric region beneath
the Objects of Light Pass as 

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,320
soon as possible after the 
occurrence of future incidents. 

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00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,560
The newly released files stop 
short of concluding the objects 

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00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,520
were extraterrestrial, but they 
make clear that Cold War 

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00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,840
military and scientific 
officials view the incidents 

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00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,480
seriously enough to involve 
intelligence agencies, meteor 

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00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,800
specialist and classified 
weapons personnel. 

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00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,760
The disclosures are likely to 
intensify long running 

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00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,320
speculation surrounding Sandia 
Base and New Mexico's so-called 

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00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,680
nuclear triangle, where UFO 
sightings have been repeatedly 

531
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,440
linked to America's nuclear 
weapons infrastructure for 

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00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,080
decades. 
Wow. 

533
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,520
Well really cool stuff overall. 
Like I said, I'm glad this 

534
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,240
stuff's being released. 
I'm not sure how much of its new

535
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,640
new and how much of its just 
kind of new looking at it from 

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00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,120
this new perspective. 
Hopefully we'll keep seeing more

537
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,160
stuff and I'll keep you updated 
on what's going on with the 

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00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,640
Department of War UFO document 
dump. 

539
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Hey, if you'd like to program, 
don't forget to hit like follow,

540
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,360
subscribe. 
Doesn't cost a time. 

541
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,040
Until next time. 
This is UFO warning over and 

542
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:57,280
out.
