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Lincoln LaPaz

University of New Mexico meteor expert who studied the green fireballs · 1948 to 1949

Said the green fireballs were unlike any meteorite fall he knew.

LaPaz, an expert in meteorics, helped the military look into the green fireballs reported over New Mexico from December 1948, without pay at first. At the 1949 Los Alamos conference on the lights he said that nothing like them, to his knowledge, had been seen in meteorite drops. The transcript was released in July 2026. His name also comes up in other released files, including a 1952 talk by Edward Ruppelt of Project Blue Book.

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