Anthony O. Mirarchi

Anthony O. Mirarchi was the head of AEC Project Twinkle, a U.S. government initiative investigating green fireballs and unidentified aerial phenomena in the late 1940s and early 1950s. On February 27, 1951, he publicly told the Associated Press that Urner Liddell and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) were misleading the public by attributing UAP to balloons or natural phenomena. Mirarchi asserted that true UAP exhibited 'maneuvered motion,' distinguishing them from conventional explanations. His statement challenged official debunking efforts amid early Cold War UFO investigations. No birth or death years are documented in available sources. His testimony represents a rare public dissent from a project lead on the extraordinary nature of UAP sightings.