Los Alamos Green Fireball Conference

GOVMASS
WITNESSES
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fireball
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35.8440, -106.2867

An unusual meteor/bolide swarm was proposed; meteoriticist Lincoln LaPaz argued the fireballs were not meteors, and the question was never settled. SOURCE →

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