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AFOSI box 186 — 319.1 Flying Discs (1949)
Air Force Office of Special Investigations file box 186, folder 319.1 'Flying Discs' — 143 pages of 1949-era investigative material. One of the earliest organized USAF UAP file holdings.
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UAP events in 1949
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Every documented UAP event from 1949 in the Disclosure Archives record — hearings, document releases, official reports, named witness testimony, and major civilian sightings. Sorted newest to oldest within the year; each entry links to a primary source.
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Los Alamos, 1949: the men who built the bomb spent a day arguing about green fireballs
PURSUE Release 04 publishes the verbatim transcript of a March 22, 1949 conference at Los Alamos, called after months of unexplained 'green fireball' sightings over the laboratory that built the first atomic bombs. Manhattan Project physicists — Edward Teller among them — argued over explanations ranging from shallow-angle meteors to an 'electron phenomenon'; meteoriticist Lincoln LaPaz told the room nothing like it had ever been seen in a meteorite fall. The conference adjourned without a consensus.
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