DOE · DOE-UAP-D004
Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena
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Minutes from a classified 16 February 1949 Los Alamos conference on the New Mexico green-fireball reports. Scientists, military officers, FBI personnel, and Atomic Energy Commission staff tested meteor and atmospheric explanations against the record. The minutes preserve the disagreement rather than a resolution: long, nearly horizontal paths, steady luminous output, and missing sound were treated as problems requiring measurement, not proof of an extraordinary origin.
Key excerpts
“The path was as nearly horizontal as one could determine by visual observation. (p. 2)”
“The puzzling thing is the long horizontal path; also, absence of noise is puzzling. (p. 24)”