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Green fireballs

6 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1948 to 1973.

4 agencies are involved: CIA, Department of Energy, Department of War, and FBI. The case files here include documents and audio recordings. One case carries visible redactions.

Cases

File IDDateAgencyTypePages readExcerpt
CIA-UAP-D00112/20/73CIADocument3/3A declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report (Report No. FIRK-311/01638-77, DOI November 1972-November 1973, disseminated December 1973/1977) based on debriefing of a former Soviet citizen source regarding the Sary Shagan weapons test…
DOW-UAP-D1543/26/52Department of WarDocument19/19This is a verbatim transcript of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). Ruppelt traces the project…
DOW-UAP-PR1603/26/52Department of WarAudioThis is an audio recording of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). The recording opens with equi…
DOE-UAP-D0043/22/49Department of EnergyDocument25/25This document is a declassified transcript of a March 1949 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission memorandum forwarding minutes of a conference on "Aerial Phenomena" held 16 February 1949 at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Convened amid a wave of…
DOW-UAP-D0171948-1950Department of WarDocument115/116This is a substantial (116-page) collection of official 1948-1950 U.S. Air Force correspondence and reports concerning the famous 'green fireball' phenomena observed in the New Mexico area near Los Alamos, Sandia Base, and Kirtland Air Forc…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-006N/AFBIDocument211/271Section 6 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering serials 246-301, August-October 1950. Centers on "Project Twinkle" and the New Mexico "green fireball" phenomenon. An FBI summary memo (A.H. Belmont to D.M. Lad…

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