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The Green Fireball Unidentified Flying Objects (ufos) in Mexico

For years ufologists have marveled atWith additional reported sightings being
accounts of the Green Fireballphoned in from all over northern New
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) inMexico. By morning a full-fledged
Mexico.investigation was under way. No matter
Here's a taster of what can be found inwhat these green fireballs were, the
official reports. At exactly midnight onmilitary was getting a little edgy.
September 18, 1954, my telephone rang.Since the green fireballs bore some
It was Jim Phalen, a friend of mine fromresemblance to meteors or meteorites,
the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and hethe Kirtland intelligence officers
had a "good flying saucer report," hotcalled in specialist Dr. Lincoln La Paz.
off the wires. He read it to me. TheTrue, he said, the description of the
lead line was: With thousands of peoplefireballs was similar to that of
tonight witnessing a huge fireball,meteorites. In order to prove the green
which light up the dark New Mexicofireballs were meteorites, it would be
skies."necessary to plot the point at which
The story went on to tell about how athey would strike the earth.
"blinding green" fireball the size of aAfter considering many sightings they
full moon had silently streakedfinally plotted where they should have
southeast across Colorado and northernstruck the earth and searched the area
New Mexico at eight-forty that night.but found nothing. They went back over
Thousands of people had seen thethe area time and time again  nothing.
fireball. It had passed right over aAs Dr. La Paz later told me, this was
crowded football stadium at Santa Fe,the first time that he seriously doubted
New Mexico, and people in Denver said itthe green fireballs were meteorites.
"turned night into day." The crew of aWithin a few more days the fireballs
TWA airliner flying into Albuquerquewere appearing almost nightly. The
from Amarillo, Texas, saw it. Everyintelligence officers from Kirtland
police and newspaper switchboard in thedecided that maybe they could get a good
two-state area was jammed with calls.look at one of them, so on the night of
One of the calls was from a manDecember 8 two officers took off in an
inquiring if anything unusual hadairplane just before dark and began to
happened recently. Heaving an audiblecruise around north of Albuquerque. They
sigh of relief after being told abouthad a carefully worked out plan where
the strange fireball he said, "Thanks -each man would observe certain details
I was afraid I'd gotten some badif they saw one of the green fireballs.
bourbon." And he hung up.At 6:33 P.M. they saw one. This is their
Dr. Lincoln La Paz, world-famousreport.
authority on meteorites and head of theAt 6:33 P.M. while flying at an
University of New Mexico's Institute ofindicated altitude of 11,500 feet, a
Meteoritics, apparently took thestrange phenomenon was observed. Exact
occurrence calmly. The wire story saidposition of the aircraft at time of the
he had told a reporter that he wouldobservation was 20 miles east of the Las
plot its course, try to determine whereVegas, N.M., radio range station. With
it landed, and go out and try to findme as copilot, and the aircraft on a
it. "But," he said, "I don't expect tocompass course of 90 degrees. I first
find anything."observed the object and a split second
When Jim Phalen had read the rest of thelater the pilot saw it. It was 2,000
report he asked, "What was it?"feet higher than the plane, and was
"It sounds to me like the greenapproaching the plane at a rapid rate of
fireballs are back," I answered.speed from 30 degrees to the left of our
"What the devil are green fireballs?"course. The object was similar in
asked Jim.appearance to a burning green flare, the
What the devil are green fireballs? I'dkind that is commonly used in the Air
like to know. So would a lot of otherForce. However, the light was much more
people.intense and the object appeared
The green fireballs streaked into UFOconsiderably larger than a normal flare.
history late in November 1948, whenAt first sight, the trajectory of the
people around Albuquerque, New Mexico,object was almost flat and parallel to
began to report seeing mysterious "greenthe earth. The phenomenon lasted about 2
flares" at night. The first reportsseconds. At the end of this time the
mentioned only a "green streak in theobject seemed to begin to burn out and
sky," low on the horizon. From thethe trajectory then dropped off rapidly.
description the Air Force IntelligenceThe phenomenon was of such intensity as
people at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerqueto be visible from the very moment it
and the Project Sign people at ATICignited.
wrote the objects off as flares.Back at Wright-Patterson AFB, the main
But as days passed the reports gotinterest was to review all incoming UFO
better. For instance the report at 9:27reports and see if the green fireball
P.M. on December 5 by Captain Goedereports were actually unique to the
flying an Air Force C-47 at 18,000 feetAlbuquerque area. They were. Although a
10 miles east of Albuquerque. Suddenlygood many UFO reports were coming in
the crew, were startled by a green ballfrom other parts of the U.S., none fit
of fire flashing across the sky ahead ofthe description of the green fireballs.
them. It looked something like a hugeAll during December 1948 and January
meteor except that it was a bright green1949 the green fireballs continued to
color and it didn't arch downward, asinvade the New Mexico skies. Everyone,
meteors usually do.including the intelligence officers at
After conferring quickly the crew agreedKirtland AFB, Air Defense Command
to report the incident, especially aspeople, Dr. La Paz, and some of the most
they had seen an similar objectdistinguished scientists at Los Alamos
twenty-two minutes earlier near Lashad seen at least one.
Vegas, New Mexico.In mid-February 1949 a conference was
The captain of Pioneer Airlines Flightcalled at Los Alamos to deter¬mine
63 called Kirtland Tower a few minuteswhat should be done to further pursue
after the incident. At 9:35 P.M. he hadthe investigation. The Air Force,
also seen a green ball of fire just eastProject Sign, the intelligence people at
of Las Vegas, New Mexico. As theyKirtland, and other interested parties
watched, the object seemed to approachhad done everything they could think of
their airplane head on, changing colorand still no answer.
from orange red to green. As it becameSuch notable scientists as Dr. Joseph
bigger and bigger, the captain said, heKaplan, a world-renowned authority on
thought sure it was going to collidethe physics of the upper atmosphere, Dr.
with them so he tracked the DC-3 up in aEdward Teller, of H-bomb fame, and of
tight turn. As the green ball of firecourse Dr. La Paz, attended, along with
got abreast of them it began to falla lot of military brass and scientists
toward the ground, getting dimmer andfrom Los Alamos.
dimmer until it disappeared. But it tookThis was one conference where there was
them only a split second to realize thatno need to discuss whether or not this
whatever they saw was too low and hadspecial type of UFO, the green fireball,
too flat a trajectory to be a meteor.existed. Almost every¬one at the
He was on his way to Albuquerque andmeeting had seen one.
would make a full report when he landed.



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