Conference on Aerial Phenomena (Los Alamos, 1949)
A classified one-day conference convened at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to examine the green fireball sightings over New Mexico. Its minutes open: "Held at 1300, 16 February 1949, in conference room P-162, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico." Present, as the minutes list them: 4th Army - Major Winn, Major Godsoe, Captain Neef; AFSWP - Commander Mandelkorn; University of New Mexico - Dr. LaPaz; FBI - Mr. Maxwell; USAEC, SFOO - Mr. Morgan, Mr. Newburger; University of California - Dr. Bradbury, Dr. Holloway, Mr. Hoyt, Dr. Manley, Dr. Reines, Dr. Teller. Newburger opened by stating that the subject of Aerial Phenomena was classified Secret within the meaning of AR 380-5. Captain Neef gave the origin: "It all started back in December, 1948, when we first received some reports from some airline pilots that these green fireballs were sighted." SOURCE GRADE: read by eye from DOE-UAP-D004 rendered at 170 dpi. The PDF text layer is Adobe Paper Capture OCR and was used as a finding aid only.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap", "aerial phenomen". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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- General Correspondence of Sandia 1950-05-25
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the conferences were convened to discuss themGeneral Correspondence of Sandiaprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 21 checked against the page
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served as the district's consultant on the green fireball investigations from 1948same document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 21 checked against the page
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The document titles itself "CONFERENCE On AERIAL PHENOMENA" with no place or year in the title. The place and year are added here to distinguish it on a map that holds several conferences.
TWO DOCUMENTS HELD HERE GIVE THIS CONFERENCE DIFFERENT DAYS AND THIS MAP KEEPS THE EARLIER ONE. The minutes themselves open "Held at 1300, 16 February 1949, in conference room P-162, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory" (doe-uap-d004). The Air Force summary of 25 May 1950 - written fifteen months later - says "On 17 February 1949 and again on 14 October 1949, conferences were held at Los Alamos" (dow-uap-d017, printed page 2). The minutes are the contemporaneous record of the meeting and the date stands on them. The discrepancy is recorded here so that nobody later corrects the right date using the later document. The 25 May 1950 summary also establishes a SECOND conference, on 14 October 1949, which this map does not otherwise hold.
A one-day meeting. The minutes give its start as 1300 on 16 February 1949 and record no second sitting; end equals date.