From Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin) Tue Jan 14 16:07:00 1992
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
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Subject: Green Meteors
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 >         While driving to St Louis early Sat morning, I watched a
 >         green meteor in the southern sky. It was just a regular
 >         one and all, except that it was green. This reminded me
 >         of the tales my father had of two particular ones he had
 >         seen.
 >
 >         In addition to regular green meteors he had seen, two others
 >         were something special, and he always communicated a sense of
 >         awe when relating the stories. One in particular (in the 50's)
 >         was so slow moving and so long lasting that he was sure it
 >         was not a meteor. It was also seen across the continent by many
 >         people. I think it was this that led him to want to attend the
 >         KC UFO club meetings in the early sixties.
 >
 >         I don't recall the theories he had or had heard about these
 >         or the details that made people think they were not meteors.
 >
 >         Can someone tell me more about the reasons people did (and
 >         still do?) place emphasis on these slow-moving celestial
 >         events?

Although it was never resolved, Project Twinkle was launched to attempt to 
determine what the green fireballs were that were sighted over New Mexico in 
the late 40s.  Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, a leading expert on meteorites, headed the 
Air Force project.  The mystery about them was particularly the numbers of 
them being reported, and the fact that they were being seen predominantly in 
New Mexico, home of some of the most sensitive military projects.  They also 
displayed strange behavior such as flying low on the horizon on a horizontal 
course.  Normally, meteors travel on an arc which brings them down to the 
ground.  According to LaPaz, "...the green fireballs were not meteors or 
meteorites.  His argument was derived from the facts that he had gained after 
many days of research and working with Air Force intelligence teams.  He stuck 
to the points that (1) the trajectory was too flat, (2) the color was too 
green, and (3) he couldn't locate any fragments even though he had found the 
spots where they should have hit the earth if they were meteorites."

Excerpted from 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,' by Edward J. 
Ruppelt, page 51.

Mike

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