Green Fireballs
Green fireballs were a wave of anomalous aerial-light sightings clustered in New Mexico between 1948 and 1951, concentrated near nuclear/military sites — principally los-alamos and sandia-new-mexico. The phenomena prompted a classified U.S. Air Force investigation feeding into the project-grudge lineage.
PURSUE Release 04 (July 10, 2026)
Both CBS News and The Hill’s coverage of PURSUE Release 04 surfaced the transcript of a 1949 conference at Los Alamos convened to explain the green fireballs, attended by top physicists and scientists including Manhattan Project veterans. The conference failed to reach consensus; a prominent astronomer rejected the meteor hypothesis outright:
“nothing like this … has ever been observed in the case of meteorite drops.” — unnamed astronomer, 1949 Los Alamos conference
This is the first vault record of an actual scientific conference (rather than raw sighting reports) devoted to the green-fireball phenomenon.
avi-loeb’s July 10, 2026 independent review of the same release (src-loeb-pursue-release-04-2026-07) names the conference organizer as edward-teller, with Lincoln LaPaz, Norris Bradbury, and Fred Reines participating, and adds a nuance: the group considered but did not settle the shallow-meteor-entry hypothesis, a more equivocal outcome than the flat meteor-rejection quote above — the two accounts are reconciled as different framings of the same inconclusive conference.