Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949

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Conference on AERIAL PHENOMENA
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Dr. Teller: Nov let • s try to get a check ot thie.
(Dr. TelJ..er then spent approximately the next twenty minutes or so
figuring on the blackboard - estimating light, apeed, kinetic energy,
shock wave, etc.)
Dr. ':reller: If' I can just believe ev~rything I have hel.U'd and put it together
w1th vb.at I theoretically believe in, 1t ought to be a material body • might
be an electron. phenomenon.
Dr. La'?az:
You eee why rm puzzled, Dr. Teller. Nothing like this, to my
knowledge, ha.a ever been observed in the case of meteorite drops.
nr. Teller: It you go to a group like UCLA or sane other place where they
have a good eoUDd laboratory, they ought to be able to take the a.boence of
sound observations - that ie definitely incompatible, assuming that you know
tb.e.t there are .o. and assuming that they have heard no sound from this, they
ought to be ab:te to work an upper range upon the dgbt of the object which has
been moving, end f'rom these figures I would be inclined to believe the obJeet
could probably not have a heat 'lot something'like l cubic centimeter. One
centimeter in dimension, and that in turn would not have given the blinding
effect, if it vas a material object.
Dr. Bradbury: Wait a minute, I think yougve lett out something in light
effects - you don't have to worry about kinetic energy. You can get your
light from chemicals as well.
Dr. Teller: That is correct.
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Mr. Nevburger:
This seemo to vind up the meeting.
Dr. Bradbury: St1.ll don¥t feel tbat the meteor stuft is out. The puzzling
thing is the long horizontal path; also, absence of noise is puzzling.
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