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* lacident! 227 luminous arcs of great circles diverging from the radiant point and passing downward to intersect the horizon under angles always large and for the most part apo: 90° in value. In sharpest contract, the path of the bright green fire seen from newr Starvation Peak was wery nearly, if not exactly, parallel to the horizon. his green fireball certainly did not emanate from the Geminid radiant. ' dubject to discovery that a new (nom-Geminid) meteoric radiant emitting mumerous vory bright fireballs of » vivid green color (deeper and richer than the green of the beacom at tne New Municipal Airport south of Santa Fe, Bew Mexico) has suddemly become .ctive during the first half of December, I sm no. comvinced the various “green Flare" incidents reported to the 0, S. 1. are mot meteoric in mature, ‘See Incidents: 225, 226, 223, 223, 224, 250 a. The horizontal mature of the paths of most of the Decesiber fireballs is most unususl. Gennine meteors are rarely observed to move in horizontal paths. >. The very low height of the December firedall 1 cussed in Section 2 above sets it off in sharp contraet from the gemine meteors for which heights of the order of 40 or more miles ore normally observed. - ce. The velocity determined for the fireball of Decemb.r 12 is much less than the velocities determined from ae meteors (and yet is con ¥. siderably greater tham the speeds of the Rockets or jet planes or of conventional flares). ad. In the case of meteorites that penetrate to as low levele as that tetermined for the fireball of December 12, the observed luminous phenomena are always accompanied by very violent noises. No noises whatever heve been observed in connection with toe various December firebslls so far investigated. e. Gemine meteors normally show remarkable variations in brightness beginning as fine thin hair lines, wich are scareely visible to the observer end then brightening up to flash out near the end of their paths. Im the case of the December fireballs, most of the observers have revorted that ' the green balls appecred almost inrtantly at their full brightness. f. Im the case of genuine meteors the paths ave directed toward all points of the compass with equal frequency. On the contrary in the case of the green fireballs, clots of admicsibdle approach sectors show that there ie a very pronounced tendenay for the paths to come in from the north half of the sky. g- ‘The three groups of anomalour greenish luminous phenomena show a carious association with well k@ow meteor showers, although none 5 eS ae estes