Place
United States
35.88 N, 106.30 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
3 events here, 1949 to 1950, in date order.
A confidential FBI San Antonio memo to J. Edgar Hoover, filed under 'Protection of Vital Installations', said the Army and Air Force treated flying saucer reports as a top-secret matter and that recent sightings were concentrated near the Atomic Energy Commission site at Los Alamos.
Los Alamos lab staff met with FBI, Atomic Energy Commission and military representatives to discuss green fireballs seen over New Mexico. The meeting judged them no serious threat and led to Project Twinkle, a camera watch that was never fully set up and ended about two years later.
During a lunchtime walk at Los Alamos, physicist Enrico Fermi joined a talk about flying saucer reports and a New Yorker cartoon, then asked where everybody was. A 1985 Los Alamos report gathered the participants' recollections; the question became the Fermi paradox.
