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Which record discusses OSI concern over green fireballs near sensitive New Mexico installations and Dr. Lincoln La Paz at the University of New Mexico?
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Which record discusses OSI concern over green fireballs near sensitive New Mexico installations and Dr. Lincoln La Paz at the University of New Mexico?
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The record that discusses OSI concern over green fireballs near sensitive New Mexico installations and Dr. Lincoln La Paz is FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894, Section 6, an internal memo dated August 23, 1950, from A. H. Belmont to D. M. Ladd [62-HQ-83894/c254fc40-9e8b-4674-96ec-1f6ee46b8f04]. The memo states that OSI expressed concern over "the continued appearance of unexplained phenomena described as green fireballs, discs and meteors in the vicinity of sensitive installations in New Mexico," and that OSI contracted with Land-Air Inc. of Alamogordo, New Mexico, to conduct a scientific study of the phenomena [62-HQ-83894/c254fc40-9e8b-4674-96ec-1f6ee46b8f04]. Dr. La Paz, identified as Meteor Expert and Director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, submitted an analysis on May 23, 1950, concluding that approximately half the recorded phenomena were meteoric in origin, with the remainder attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was incorrect, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR [62-HQ-83894/c254fc40-9e8b-4674-96ec-1f6ee46b8f04].