DOE-UAP-D004, Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949
Department of Energy · 3/22/49 · New Mexico · Document
DOE-UAP-D004, Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949 is indexed as a Department of Energy record with incident date 3/22/49 and location New Mexico. This document is a transcript of a 1949 conference held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laboratory), Los Alamos, New Mexico. Attendees included several eminent scientists and physicists, many of whom had contributed to the development of the first nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project. The purpose of the conference was to discuss and gather hypotheses to account for the nature and origin of a phenomenon involving green fireballs that had been reported over a period of several months in the vicinity of the laboratory. The group did not come to a consensus on a likely attribution for the phenomenon, though a leading hypothesis was that the observations may have been related to meteors entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle and high altitude. Dr. Edward Teller suggested that if not a material body, an electron phenomenon might be the cause, while Dr. Lincoln La Paz, an expert specializing in meteorics, expressed that nothing like this, to [his] knowledge, has ever been observed in the case of meteorite drops.
Notable / anomalous element
- Mandelkorn: How does the calculated velocity ot thsse objects compare vith the known velocity o mcte rites? (native PDF text, page 10)
- of our men vus returnuag Sumay night vhen our tover operator aav this object to the Southwest from Kirtland Field am. (native PDF text, page 19)
- Conference on AERIAL PREROMENA Page 15 illuminated by the sun. (native PDF text, page 16)
- Conference on AERIAL PHENOMENA Page 9 Dr. (native PDF text, page 10)
Details
- , COE'BREliCE On AERIAL PHENOMENA Held a.t 1300, 16 February 1949, 1n conference room P-162, Los Alamos Scientific La.boi."'atory, Lo& Alamoa, Bew Mezico. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Mr.!l&wburger th<m 1nt1'0dueed Captain Beef, who briaf'ly outlined the purpoe" of tbia meet;ing. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Captain Beet: It aU start d back 1n Dec Gmber, 1948, when w first received 8Ql1i.e reports from same airline pilats tha.t these 6NCJ1.:firebe.lls vere sisb.ted. (native PDF text, page 2)
- La Paz 'Who has been aqsisting us, gratis, since tbat date. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Ia Paz q:plain these tbings as we have:found t.hem. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Then you give ua your opinion trom. theft; that 18 what we are '" interosted in. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Meteorite falls (tor next minute or two, Dr. (native PDF text, page 2)
- all kind. 'Ihe tact t o l l, bya meteorite falling into the DECLASSIFIED. (native PDF text, page 2)
Tags: Energy Department, New Mexico, Green fireballs, Los Alamos, Los Alamos Conference, Aerial phenomena, Fireball, Weapons