Green fireballs

A scientific investigation followed.

Its name was Project Twinkle.

The military sought photographic, observational, and other scientific evidence to establish what people were seeing.

The final report issued in November 1951 concluded that the investigation had found no indication that the green fireballs were anything other than natural phenomena.

And so they were dealing with people at that level.

And then it moved to the Foo Fighters during World War II, then the Green Fireballs.

And I said, what happened to the Foo Fighters? Foo Fighters were only around for about two years.

And then they went away.

the green fireballs came after and they were around all the nuclear stuff then the green fireballs were anyway then adamski came and dadavsky was the first after the detonation of the hydrogen bomb in 52 he came and then menger and all those those contactees and they were all having these contacts in the 50s and then suddenly the grays happen and all the contactees go away and you have a couple of channelers but basically the contactees go away And then suddenly it's a new thing.

So to me, it's like the phenomena will suit you.

And there's even experiences where people will see different things and they're together.

We are, but as we go along, the phenomena will change and it'll morph and it'll morph and they're fitting it in almost like they've done this on a thousand different planets.

And when I did that show, I remember sitting in the studio and I had a copy of a document, a paper that I had printed out.

And it was about green fireballs over Los Alamos.

And I did a show on that.

I think it was the Dark Matter Radio Days before we got kicked off of there, too.

It says this document is a transcript of a 1949 conference held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.

Attendees included several eminent scientists and physicists, many of whom had contributed to the development of the first nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project.

The purpose of the conference was to discuss and gather hypotheses to account for the nature and origin of a phenomenon involving green fireballs that had been reported over a period of several months in the vicinity of the laboratory now the group did not come to a consensus on a likely attribution for the phenomenon though a leading hypothesis was that the observations may have been related to meteors entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle and high altitude now just Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would assume that documents released, be them from the Department of Energy in this case or NASA or You would assume that documents that would be released under the heading of UFO, UAP, the implications always been like flying saucer type stuff or things that maybe are implied to be extraterrestrial or interdimensional or alien or whatever.

You would think that a document from scientific experts, top scientists at Los Alamos, talking about meteors... you would think that that wouldn't be included, nor would it be classified.

and you are listening to Unexplained History.

Tonight we are following the green fireballs across New Mexico from the people who reported them to the cameras the Air Force set up to investigate.

We will hear why Lincoln-Lapaz thought something unusual was happening, then examine what the surviving records actually contain.

There was a scientific program behind this story.

La Paz mentioned information he had received about green lights near Hanford, another atomic site, and earlier reports from Texas.

Other aerial accounts came into the discussion, including daylight objects described as bright and white.

He distinguished those from the green fireballs he was trying to investigate.

A listener following the file can see why the subject became difficult to organize.

And what's really interesting about that is that I actually, in our project, our project, Aquarius Library, has Captain Ruppelt's personal blue book files.

And he actually wrote a letter to Professor Lincoln LaPaz, New Mexican University professor who studied the Green Fireballs, where he was asking him about an article in a magazine that there were two pre-Sputnik people objects orbiting Earth.

And La Paz's daughter, who was his secretary, said that her father disavowed that article.

But at the same time, she didn't deny that there were two objects in orbit around Earth.

Welcome to the UFOs and Aliens podcast.

In December 1948, two planes spotted glowing green fireballs over New Mexico.

Today, let's explore the mystery, the evidence, and the theories behind one of UFO history's most enduring enigmas.

In the dead of night on December 5th, 1948, two planes, one military, one civilian, reported a bright green ball racing across the sky over northern New Mexico.

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According to pilot reports, that level of velocity suggests an engineered craft or a natural body entering and exiting Earth’s atmosphere at controlled altitudes, a hard proposition for atmospheric chemistry alone.

A third hypothesis that pops up in circles is that the green fireballs were part of a covert military experiment aimed at developing directed energy weapons, laser systems on balloons perhaps.

Directed energy tests could generate visible light, especially if the beam was reflected off debris or cloud bases, giving witnesses an illusion of a moving orb.

Welcome to the UFOs and Aliens podcast.

Today we're diving into the strange green fireballs that lit up New Mexico's night sky in the late 1940s, meteor science, secret military tests and unanswered questions that still baffle experts.

Now let's explore one of the most fascinating mysteries in UFO history.

The green fireballs over New Mexico in the late 1940s, those oddly luminous green streaks that flickered across a night sky near nuclear laboratories from Los Alamos to White Sands, captured both civilian imagination and official concern.

Within days of each site, the Army's Air Defense Command had already called in radar crews to trace them, while scientists in Albuquerque pressed the problem into the hands of a fledgling meteorology program that could explain their unusual color.

That was when Lincoln LaPaz, an academic physicist turned atmospheric researcher, first began to take the phenomenon seriously.

The late 1940s were also the dawn of covert aerial research.

Project Narcissus, the U.S. clandestine high-altitude surveillance program, had just launched its first unclassified flights over the Southwest.