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This declassified document is a March 22, 1949 letter from the Security Operations Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Santa Fe Directed Operations. It forwards a transcript of a Conference on Aerial Phenomena held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on February 16, 1949. At the conference, Dr. LaPaz described the green fireballs, including his own Starvation Peak sighting of December 12, 1948, and argued that they were not conventional meteors. Dr. Teller and others discussed why the fireballs made no sound, and no conclusion was reached.

  • p. 3 …hue green, or yello-11 green, such ae I had never observed in meteor falls before…
  • p. 4 …ws not, in my opinion, e. conventional. meteor :fall. S1!1Ce the majority of the green…
  • p. 5 …i:.ho case of a:ey- conveutional meteor falls. And finally, and this pcseibly Ls the…
  • p. 8 …Pru1tt, Director lforthweGtcrn Section, City &..~tion, o~ the Meteor Socie·Gy, I had been informed that…
  • p. 9 …His observation was tbe observation of a bounning meteor. After 'tfliat I •ve been telling you…
  • p. 10 …Fin.it., to observe in the cast of an actual meteor!te :tall you have a…
  • p. 11 …nov good 1a the covera.ge of the oboervers ~ the Americmi Meteor Society cs far o…
  • p. 13 …color in meteors! Dr. LaPa.z: If I were to rewrite the report that I first…
  • p. 14 …You So through long lists, like those of the American Meteor Society, you will tilld, I…
  • p. 16 …ve want you to find a meteor! Mr. Hewburger: Have the mili"c.ary - e.ey…
  • p. 19 …meteors. The th1zlg that impresses 1D.Q 1s your evidence of the horizontal flight. Meteors do…
  • p. 21 …The cO?tVentiona.l meteor cannot be :photogr :phed. e.t t.he pre~ent time…
  • p. 22 …For exampl, you can consult the so-called meteor notes of the Amer"tcan Meteor Society…
  • p. 25 …St1.ll don¥t feel tbat the meteor stuft is out. The puzzling thing is the…
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U NIT ED S TATES
A TOMIC ENE RG Y C OMM I SSIO N
LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO
Authority:
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NND 5837811ANAGER, SANTA FE DIRECTED OPERATIONS
IJ, S. A TOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
P. 0. BOX 1539
LOS ALAMOS, NEW M EXICO
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