Lincoln LaPaz

Another type of, uh, phenomena or object or something floating around down in that area, and that's these green fireballs.

I don't know whether you've been reading about that in the paper, but there's a Dr., uh, Lincoln LaPaz down in Albuquerque at University of New Mexico who's been making a big deal out of these green fireballs.

They appear to be, uh, similar to a meteor, except that they have a definite flat trajectory.

Uh, they're reported to be a, a brilliant, uh, greenish-blue color, and they, uh, they don't explode.

Now, they have another type of, uh, phenomena or object or something floating around down in that area, and that's these green fireballs.

Now, I don't know if you've been reading about that in the paper, but there's a Dr., uh, Lincoln LaPaz down in Albuquerque at University of New Mexico, who's been making a big deal out of these green fireballs.

They appear to be, uh, similar to a meteor, except that they have a definite flat trajectory.

Uh, they're reported to be a, a brilliant, uh, greenish-blue color, and they, uh, they don't explode.

They took away samples of the melted rock, the burned soil, and vegetation.

Lonnie Zamora, as it turns out, was friends with Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, the famous astronomer.

So he heard about this sighting very early on, and Air Force investigators converged on the scene.

J. Allen Hynek also investigated the incident shortly after it happened, and he measured these landing marks, determining that the center of gravity of this object corresponded exactly to the location of the burned foliage.

Unexplained objects have been showing up over America's nuclear weapons sites since at least 1949 and not a single case has ever been formally closed." They then go on to note that the fourth tranche of PURSU UFO documents had been released there at war.gov, noting of that fourth release and of earlier releases under the PURSU program that they offer, quote, "...the most direct evidence yet that officials have never been able to explain what keeps appearing near the country's most sensitive military installations." According to author Andrea Prado, writing for the IBT here, she notes that the oldest file is a stenographic transcript of a classified 1949 conference at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, convened after a series of green fireball sightings over New Mexico's nuclear installations.

The attendees included physicist Edward Teller, later associated with the hydrogen bomb, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frederick Rains, Los Alamos director Norris Bradbury, and government meteorite expert Lincoln LaPaz.

LaPaz told the room that nothing like this had ever been observed in a meteorite drop, ruling out the leading natural explanation at the time.

Teller, on the other hand, raised the possibility of an electron phenomenon.

Pilots reported seeing them.

Military personnel saw them.

Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, one of America's leading meteor experts, became involved in efforts to determine whether the objects were unusual meteors or something else.

Eventually, the Air Force initiated Project Twinkle in an attempt to obtain instrumental observations of the phenomenon.

He was involved.

The world's leading meteorologist, a man named Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, was involved in these discussions.

And you had the army, you had Air Force intelligence, you had all kinds of intelligence groups conversing in this area, trying to figure this out.

It's just the Russians, they wanted to know.

So even by early '40s, there was this idea that, well, maybe the Tunguska meteorite was made of antimatter.

And this was an American meteorite specialist, Lincoln LaPaz, who first comes up with this, and then it's renewed by other scientists such as Willard Libby, who developed carbon-14 dating, um, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist in the 1960s.

There's another idea that comes out from American scientists in the 1970s that it might have been a miniature black hole.

Both of these are wrong.