Green Fireballs, Lincoln La Paz, and the Emergence of U.S. Ufology

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Green fireballs observed over New Mexico from 1948 to 1955 baffled observers and led Lincoln La Paz, a pioneering meteor researcher, to investigate them as non-meteors, a thread that fed early postwar UFO lore and, despite extensive study, produced no definitive explanation while La Paz advanced meteor science and engaged in related events including the Norton County meteorite recovery and Roswell incident investigations.