Project Firefly 1960, the upper atmosphere chemical release program of the Geophysics Research Directorate, in cooperation with other participting agencies, has provided a systematic study of several types of upper atmosphere perturbations. Reports on reduced and interpreted data from a number of optical and radio-frequency stations have been prepared by participants, and published as a ORD special report. A preliminary crosscorrelation of that information is presented in this summary. The summary consists of an introduction, special sections on missile trails and weapons effects, and sections on groups of releases:
• night point electron
• sunlit point electron
• cesium trail
• high explosive
• electron removal
• cobalt particles
• hydrocarbon
• alumina particlesThe summary section for each group of releases includes a statement of objectives, observations, conclusions, recommended further data analysis, and recommended further experiments. [1]
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