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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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- Date: 14 Jan 92 21:07:00 GMT
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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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