It seems kind of like a routine thing for him to have seen. In fact there was a meteor expert at the University of New Mexico named Lincoln La Paz and in 1948-49 he was basically studying green fireballs following the plume radioactive debris post nuclear blasts across the US.
and even today like we're in LA right now. They're all sorts of people who say that they feel like
around LA, you drive around any major city Las Vegas, any major city in the US and you look around