This blog has been critical of the television series, UFO Hunters, when it tried to stretch nothing into something, so it's only fair to note when it seems the show might be on to a real lead.
In 1985, a fellow named Bob White saw a UFO over western Colorado. A piece of the object fell, or was shot away, from the UFO. White recovered the piece, and has spent the years since having it tested at various laboratories, including Sandia National Lab in New Mexico. White says other reputable labs have also tested the object, but don't want their names made puiblic in this context. That, of course, makes it difficult to judge White's claims. Be that as it may, he reports labs have found anomalous properties associated with the object. This week's show featured two scientists who were willing to talk on television-- though they wouldn't say where they worked. Both confirmed White's object was strange, was manufactured, was made using a metal alloy humans don't make, and speculated, therefore, that the object had an extraterrestrial origin.
Assuming those conclusions are based in solid science, UFOlogists would seem to be close to having the smoking gun they've always needed. That produces a question for the show and the larger UFO community: If they are so close to finally proving at least one extraterrestrial visitation of Earth, why not pound away at that instead of going off into other stuff that is far less compelling than an object of extraterrestrial manufacture you could hold in your hand?
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I was very much intrigued by the object at first, but after about a day worth of googling (I have became more and more skeptical)
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some of the most interesting claims seems to be based on totally unfounded ideas..
1. The reason that they think the object could not be made on earth is because they could not find records of an earthly alloy that has the EXACT same ratio of elements... (they didn't mention their reasoning on the show, but they did elsewhere, you can google it if interested)
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This argument is problematic, in the alloying process, completely removing impurities is extremely expensive, so having a few percent of impurities from all kinds elements is entirely expected.
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if "the books" says an aluminum alloy x contains 50% al and 50% silicon, you bet that the real thing coming out of a factory would contain at 2% iron, 1% tin, some uranium, some gold. etc.
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Also scientific tests based on a small sample is never that reliable, Their own tests showed different results every time (4% silver was found in los alamos test, but no silver is even reported in the new mexico tech test)
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2. The other interesting claim is that the the object is radioactive and caused battery failure. But this is simply impossible. proof: all smoke detectors have a radiation source close to a battery and they work fine for years.
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High school science will tell you that batteries operates by chemical reaction... radioactivity works by shooting out particles like neutrons... you can't just "suck the power out of a battery" with low level radioactivity.
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3. The two black dots on the x-ray film are interesting, but one of the tests, done by los Alamos (i think) for a British TV show a while back showed that the object is not abnormally radioactive. (everything is radioactive, which is why you can use radio-carbon dating),
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and even if the object were EXTREMELY radio active, it would not be proof of UFO. last year, 150 TONS of extremely radioactive construction steel were seized in Germany alone. It's so radio active that exposing to those steal for 24 hours exceed safe dosage for a year...
http://www.the-gates-of-hell.com/contaminated-imports-finds-of-radioactive-steel-on-the-rise-in-germany/
radioactive contamination of metals is not entirely rare...
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