1950-09-26 / New Mexico / unresolved
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
Round object approximately six feet in diameter (also described as six feet in circumference), descending slowly, resembling a parachute at first glance, landing without bending weeds or grass