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Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949 (DOE-UAP-D004)

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This file is a US Atomic Energy Commission transcript of a secret conference on aerial phenomena held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on 16 February 1949. A cover letter from the AEC Santa Fe office dated 22 March 1949 accompanies it. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz describes the New Mexico green fireballs, including the Starvation Peak sighting of 12 December 1948 and the 30 January 1949 fall over Texas. He argues they were not conventional meteorites. Edward Teller, Norris Bradbury and others discuss the missing sound and the long horizontal paths but reach no conclusion.

  • p. 3 …hue green, or yello-11 green, such ae I had never observed in meteor falls before…
  • p. 11 …t6lking about Geminate ehoirero except ttat I never obacrvcd a green Ge::nina.te. Mttcr of…
  • p. 13 …I think I woul4 DOY ea.y "never observed". You sometimes see green, Dr. ·Bradbury, but…
  • p. 14 …0 Kaplan himaelf' recalled that they were blue, maybe blus•sreen, but never yellow green. And…
  • p. 15 …or a shooting star, of course, you never bear a thine; because the entire mass is…
  • p. 18 …return r-el&.ted tbat he bad never seen be:tore in his lite such a…
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