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The Green Fireballs

DATE1 Jan 1948
LOCAL TIME—
LOCATIONNew Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States
COORDINATES34.70°N, 105.83°W

The US Air Force investigated reports of green flares streaking across the sky after an Air Force C-47 transport encountered a green ball of fire on 5 December 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward as a meteor would. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.

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