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The Green Fireball Unidentified Flying Objects (ufos) in Mexico

For years ufologists have marveled at
accounts of the Green Fireball UnidentifiedWith additional reported sightings being
Flying  Objects  (UFOs)  in  Mexico.phoned in from all over northern New Mexico.
By morning a full-fledged investigation was
Here's a taster of what can be found inunder way. No matter what these green
official reports. At exactly midnight onfireballs were, the military was getting a
September 18, 1954, my telephone rang. It waslittle  edgy.
Jim Phalen, a friend of mine from the Long
Beach Press-Telegram, and he had a "goodSince the green fireballs bore some
flying saucer report," hot off the wires. Heresemblance to meteors or meteorites, the
read it to me. The lead line was: WithKirtland intelligence officers called in
thousands of people tonight witnessing a hugespecialist  Dr.  Lincoln  La  Paz.
fireball, which light up the dark New Mexico
skies."True, he said, the description of the
fireballs was similar to that of meteorites.
The story went on to tell about how aIn order to prove the green fireballs were
"blinding green" fireball the size of a fullmeteorites, it would be necessary to plot the
moon had silently streaked southeast acrosspoint  at  which they would strike the earth.
Colorado and northern New Mexico at
eight-forty that night. Thousands of peopleAfter considering many sightings they finally
had seen the fireball. It had passed rightplotted where they should have struck the
over a crowded football stadium at Santa Fe,earth and searched the area but found
New Mexico, and people in Denver said itnothing. They went back over the area time
"turned night into day." The crew of a TWAand time again  nothing. As Dr. La Paz later
airliner flying into Albuquerque fromtold me, this was the first time that he
Amarillo, Texas, saw it. Every police andseriously doubted the green fireballs were
newspaper switchboard in the two-state areameteorites.
was  jammed  with  calls.
Within a few more days the fireballs were
One of the calls was from a man inquiring ifappearing almost nightly. The intelligence
anything unusual had happened recently.officers from Kirtland decided that maybe
Heaving an audible sigh of relief after beingthey could get a good look at one of them, so
told about the strange fireball he said,on the night of December 8 two officers took
"Thanks - I was afraid I'd gotten some badoff in an airplane just before dark and began
bourbon."  And  he  hung  up.to cruise around north of Albuquerque. They
had a carefully worked out plan where each
Dr. Lincoln La Paz, world-famous authority onman would observe certain details if they saw
meteorites and head of the University of Newone of the green fireballs. At 6:33 P.M. they
Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, apparentlysaw  one.  This  is  their  report.
took the occurrence calmly. The wire story
said he had told a reporter that he wouldAt 6:33 P.M. while flying at an indicated
plot its course, try to determine where italtitude of 11,500 feet, a strange phenomenon
landed, and go out and try to find it. "But,"was observed. Exact position of the aircraft
he  said,  "I don't expect to find anything."at time of the observation was 20 miles east
of the Las Vegas, N.M., radio range station.
When Jim Phalen had read the rest of theWith me as copilot, and the aircraft on a
report  he  asked,  "What  was  it?"compass course of 90 degrees. I first
observed the object and a split second later
"It sounds to me like the green fireballs arethe pilot saw it. It was 2,000 feet higher
back,"  I  answered.than the plane, and was approaching the plane
at a rapid rate of speed from 30 degrees to
"What the devil are green fireballs?" askedthe left of our course. The object was
Jim.similar in appearance to a burning green
flare, the kind that is commonly used in the
What the devil are green fireballs? I'd likeAir Force. However, the light was much more
to  know.  So  would  a  lot of other people.intense and the object appeared considerably
larger than a normal flare. At first sight,
The green fireballs streaked into UFO historythe trajectory of the object was almost flat
late in November 1948, when people aroundand parallel to the earth. The phenomenon
Albuquerque, New Mexico, began to reportlasted about 2 seconds. At the end of this
seeing mysterious "green flares" at night.time the object seemed to begin to burn out
The first reports mentioned only a "greenand the trajectory then dropped off rapidly.
streak in the sky," low on the horizon. FromThe phenomenon was of such intensity as to be
the description the Air Force Intelligencevisible  from  the  very  moment  it ignited.
people at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and the
Project Sign people at ATIC wrote the objectsBack at Wright-Patterson AFB, the main
off  as  flares.interest was to review all incoming UFO
reports and see if the green fireball reports
But as days passed the reports got better.were actually unique to the Albuquerque area.
For instance the report at 9:27 P.M. onThey were. Although a good many UFO reports
December 5 by Captain Goede flying an Airwere coming in from other parts of the U.S.,
Force C-47 at 18,000 feet 10 miles east ofnone fit the description of the green
Albuquerque. Suddenly the crew, were startledfireballs.
by a green ball of fire flashing across the
sky ahead of them. It looked something like aAll during December 1948 and January 1949 the
huge meteor except that it was a bright greengreen fireballs continued to invade the New
color and it didn't arch downward, as meteorsMexico skies. Everyone, including the
usually  do.intelligence officers at Kirtland AFB, Air
Defense Command people, Dr. La Paz, and some
After conferring quickly the crew agreed toof the most distinguished scientists at Los
report the incident, especially as they hadAlamos  had  seen  at  least  one.
seen an similar object twenty-two minutes
earlier  near  Las  Vegas,  New  Mexico.In mid-February 1949 a conference was called
at Los Alamos to deter¬mine what
The captain of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63should be done to further pursue the
called Kirtland Tower a few minutes after theinvestigation. The Air Force, Project Sign,
incident. At 9:35 P.M. he had also seen athe intelligence people at Kirtland, and
green ball of fire just east of Las Vegas,other interested parties had done everything
New Mexico. As they watched, the objectthey  could  think  of  and  still no answer.
seemed to approach their airplane head on,
changing color from orange red to green. AsSuch notable scientists as Dr. Joseph Kaplan,
it became bigger and bigger, the captaina world-renowned authority on the physics of
said, he thought sure it was going to collidethe upper atmosphere, Dr. Edward Teller, of
with them so he tracked the DC-3 up in aH-bomb fame, and of course Dr. La Paz,
tight turn. As the green ball of fire gotattended, along with a lot of military brass
abreast of them it began to fall toward theand  scientists  from  Los  Alamos.
ground, getting dimmer and dimmer until it
disappeared. But it took them only a splitThis was one conference where there was no
second to realize that whatever they saw wasneed to discuss whether or not this special
too low and had too flat a trajectory to be atype of UFO, the green fireball, existed.
meteor. He was on his way to Albuquerque andAlmost every¬one at the meeting had
would  make  a  full  report  when he landed.seen one.



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