Edward Teller Admitted Green Fireball Phenomenon Sounded Like Everything But Meteors

What was said

"Like everything else but meteors. If these reports were accurate, then the object seemed too bright to be as small as the absence of sound required. It seemed too quiet to be as large as the brightness implied."

A classified 1949 Los Alamos conference transcript reveals Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb fuse, initially tried to explain green fireball sightings as meteors but concluded the physics didn't work. Top meteor expert Lincoln La Paz insisted the objects behaved unlike any known meteorite. The conference included America's nuclear weapons elite discussing objects repeatedly seen over sensitive nuclear facilities in the Southwest.