New Mexico green fireballs

When

From late 1948, pilots, security staff and others near Albuquerque and Los Alamos reported bright green fireballs. Meteor expert Lincoln LaPaz doubted they were ordinary meteors; the Air Force's Project Twinkle camera effort photographed nothing and faded out.

Sources

  1. FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956), ch. 4 'Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge' (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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How the story came out

  1. It happened (this event)
  2. Los Alamos conference on the green fireballs launches Project Twinkle

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