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A Potential Solution to the Mystery of the "Alien" Metal Promoted by "To the Stars"

6/16/2018

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​Last week, the Society for Scientific Exploration held its thirty-seventh annual conference, this time in combination with the International Remote Viewing Association. The two organizations focus on fringe science claims about psychic powers, the mysteries of consciousness, alternative energy, alternative medicine, etc. You will of course recognize the SSE as the publisher of Edge Science, a magazine whose articles about ancient astronauts and related claims I have had occasion to criticize more than once. Well, at last week’s conference in Las Vegas, Dr. Hal Puthoff gave a lecture on his work for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the Pentagon’s UFO program. Like the secret showman that he has long been, he hinted at things he refused to say and used blanket claims about government classification to avoid dealing with provable details to support his implications and allegations. However, he accidentally led me to the solution to the mystery of To the Stars’ secret “alien” metal alloy that they have been promoting since last year.
You know how I hate to leave a mystery unsolved, and the “alien” alloy really bothered me. But you’ll have to wait until the end to find out the solution. I am mean that way.
 
Regular readers will recall that former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), working at the behest of campaign donor and UFO believer Robert Bigelow, passed legislation creating the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program, a UFO tracking bureau, whose work (and funding) were outsourced to Bigelow’s company until funding ended in 2012. This program made headlines last December when a former official left the Pentagon, joined Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars, and revealed the existence of the shuttered Pentagon enterprise to the New York Times at the same time that To the Stars began promoting declassified Pentagon videos purporting to show UFOs.
 
Puthoff is DeLonge’s Vice President of Science and Technology at To the Stars Academy. He is a former Scientologist who worked on remote viewing projects and made a name for himself as a believer in various paranormal phenomena, and he is also a paid subcontractor for Bigelow. He admitted this week that he worked on the Pentagon project under financing from Bigelow. While he has endorsed a number of unusual phenomena, he does have his limits. He told fringe writer Philip Gardner in 2013, for example, that he did not endorse the claim that a powder made from “white monoatomic gold” could be used bend space and time or to levitate objects. Strangely, though, this was not because he doubted its power per se but because the owner of the alleged white monoatomic gold powder never provided him with a testable sample. Oddly, though, that exactly what To the Stars has alleged chunks of broken metal from space alien ships can do. Funny how these things always come back around.
 
Puthoff delivered a speech describing his investigation of what he calls “Advanced Aerospace Vehicles” and the pieces of debris that fall from them with astonishing regularity. In his speech to the conference, Puthoff creatively deployed claims of government classification when convenient. One might imagine that if he is indeed correct that the American government is actively investigating these space vehicles and their technology that their very existence would be just as classified as the decidedly less exciting description of their metallic composition, but apparently not, for Puthoff has no trouble sharing allegations that the U.S. is aware of non-human technologies, but hesitates to provide any details about testable material derived from these.
 
Anyway, he says that “you’ve got these Advanced Aerospace Vehicles flying around that we don’t know where they come from, who’s driving them, what the intent is – possibly off-world even.” He implies that this is a Pentagon revelation, but it seems that this is instead his own gloss on plain old everyday UFO reports, for he alleges that the Pentagon’s actual concern regarded planning for encounters with advanced aircraft. Puthoff suggests that these would be future UFO invasions, but there is nothing that suggests this other than his own assertion, and I find it difficult to grasp the idea that the Pentagon would only care whether the Russians or Chinese might use crashed UFOs to gain a technological edge over the Americans. Surely the arrival, and potential capture or destruction, of fucking SPACE ALIENS and their craft really ought to warrant some level of interest if true. Puthoff says that space aliens pose no strategic threat that concerned either the Soviet or American governments during the Cold War, so therefore the only concern was whether the enemy might make better use of crashed alien spaceships.
 
What the actual fuck?
 
I mean that genuinely.
 
Even leaving aside the fact that the arrival of beings from another world would open us to the potential for Andromeda Strain-style devastation, it is impossible to conceive of a world where intelligent beings from another world are buzzing through the skies regularly and literally nobody cares, except about how much money they can save by piggybacking off their technology. The same Pentagon that obsessed for years over whether you can kill a goat by staring at it has no interest in what would have been the most important scientific, technological, and even existential development in millennia?
 
This is the same problem I have with ufology and ancient astronaut theories. If these people genuinely believed that they had discovered true and incontrovertible evidence of an intelligence beyond human, surely they would be profoundly transformed and not utterly blasé about it. Every street-corner prophet who imagines he has heard the voice of God speaks with more passion and commitment than the men and women who say that they have proved that we are not alone.
 
When we get into the fine details of Puthoff’s claims, things start to get a little fuzzy. Puthoff admits that the Defense Intelligence Agency’s efforts to find a contractor to investigate alleged “advanced aerial vehicles” were “unclassified,” along with the scope and limits of that investigation. He says this in the hope of absolving Bigelow of the implication that Reid, having been convinced to fund the project by Bigelow and those in Bigelow’s orbit, received the Pentagon’s contract as a favor. But Puthoff actually admitted that DIA wasn’t hiding the program and hadn’t classified the supposedly forbidden details. Indeed, he also admitted that most of the documents produced by experts for the program, whitepapers on the future of air and space travel, for example, were also unclassified. These papers covered sci-fi topics such as “positron aerospace propulsion, IEC fusion as a compact energy source, warp drive, dark energy, extra dimensions, metallic glasses for aerospace use.” These papers were shared openly throughout the government.
 
Ah, but when it comes to actual material that Tom DeLonge is profiting from, suddenly things change. Puthoff talks about the allegations that so-called “meta-metals” have been recovered that were beyond human technology. “I’d love to talk about really fancy materials, but they’re classified,” he said. Oh, but of course. The existence of non-human spacecraft isn’t a secret, but the fact that they are made of fancy metals is both a secret and one that can be openly admitted in public so long as he doesn’t provide any details at all. That’s some very selective classification.
 
Puthoff, however, says that he can talk about a chunk of metal that the late radio host Art Bell had told him about decades ago.
​
Puthoff said that he examined the sample after a self-described military man said he had recovered it from a UFO crash site and sent it “by email” to Bell. It appears that Puthoff is not describing an actual physical sample in Bell’s possession but rather a document claiming to describe a government report on such a sample, but Linda Moulton Howe claimed in the Roswell Daily Record last year that Bell had the actual sample (six in fact!) and that it had been “recovered” from the Roswell UFO crash site and sent to Bell in 1996 by an Army sergeant who got it from his grandfather.
 
Here is what Puthoff had to say:
It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample. Bismuth layers less than a human hair. Magnesium samples about ten-times the size of a human hair. Supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval of an Advanced Aerospace Vehicle. It looks like it’s been in a crash. The white lines are the bismuth; the darker areas are the magnesium separations. So the question was what about this material, so naturally we looked in all the national labs, we talked to metallurgists, we combed the entire structure of published papers. Nowhere could we find any evidence that anybody ever made one of these. […] Well, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science moves along. We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic radiation terahertz frequencies.
​And where is this sample now? Amazing the way these astonishing pieces of evidence vanish. The research that Puthoff said he did is the exact same research that Howe claims to have done, point for point, and that strongly implies that they were not working entirely independently. Howe’s findings, though, were hardly conclusive. She asked electrical engineer Travis Taylor to do a literature search, and he couldn’t find reference to the magnesium-bismuth material. 
 
This is clearly of a piece with the other bits of exotic metal that fellow Bigelow consultant and ufologist Jacques Vallée has been talking up for the past year. Vallée specifically identified the metal chunks he works with as being made of “magnesium” with unusual isotope ratios. DeLonge claimed that his lumps of metal are unnatural “alloys” that can bend space and time and counteract gravity. Where have heard that before? But specifically, he alleged that the metal was “3D-printed” with different layers of different metals. This is indistinguishable from Puthoff’s description of a sample made of multilayered bismuth and magnesium, and indeed, I found that DeLonge referred to “layered bismuth and magnesium metamaterials” being in his possession. Despite the superficial differences, I have trouble believing that Bigelow’s satellites—Puthoff, Vallée, and even DeLonge—aren’t all promoting variations of the same thing. Garry Nolan of To the Stars seemed to confirm this in describing the magnesium-bismuth metamaterials as alloys, alleging that they have unusual isotope ratios, and endorsing the overlapping claims found in all three of the other advocates’ allegations about the materials.
 
Here is Nolan confirming my suspicions explicitly: “Yes, Jacques and I have worked together on many projects. Including his recent discussions on the isotope ratios. Jacques previously worked with Peter Sturrock (Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics here at Stanford) a couple of decades ago on composition of materials from UAP.” “UAP” refers to “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
 
So, to summarize: All of Bigelow’s satellites are engaged in a mutual dance of apparent delusion. Nolan is a microbiologist. Vallée is a computer scientist and venture capitalist. Puthoff trained as an electrical engineer and spent his career in parapsychology. None has expertise in metals or their claimed quantum processes of producing unusual metals. According to no less an authority than Vallée himself, speaking in interviews last year, they have made no use of experts in advanced metallurgy but have instead used commercial laboratories to study pieces of metal and developed their own explanations of the results. “I’m pretty well connected with the high-tech community, including one company that I financed as a venture capitalist,” he told Skeptico last fall, adding that he hired their mass spectrometer to analyze magnesium slag for alien isotope ratios.
 
But more to the point, try parsing Puthoff’s description carefully. Puthoff wants us to read this as saying that the military recovered a sample of metamaterials, failed to reproduce it, but made great advances over decades after studying it. And yet the description also could just as easily suggest that a secret advanced program had produced such metal earlier than it had become public and that not everyone was aware of who was working on what. Indeed, Puthoff himself provided evidence for that very reading when he admitted that “it’s a high compartmentalizational topic, therefore a slow pace of cumulative progress and integration. We call ’em ‘stovepipes.’ You have a lot of people with lots of detailed information about some particular aspect, but they don’t talk each other even if it is sitting at the next desk.”
 
Basically, if we apply the most plausible reading to the claims as given (which is a dicey proposition to start with), Puthoff is acting surprised that a classified military program may have tested aircraft with advanced materials that were not publicly described for several decades after testing began. This should surprise no one. Stealth aircraft were under development for many years before they made their public debut—and, indeed, the U.S. government may even have encouraged ufological explanations for sightings of stealth craft before they were ready to be officially acknowledged in order to help keep them secret.
 
That there is something fishy in all of this can be seen in the fact that the magnesium-bismuth layering is not a new discovery but is widely discussed in fringe literature for decades. Linda Moulton Howe has been promoting it since the 1990s, and it appears routinely in twenty-first century books about anti-gravity technology and UFOs, going back at least to the early 2000s. I am torn between thinking that the Bigelow group are blindly pursuing what they think is real U.S. government research into magnesium-bismuth layering and thinking that they are cynically pulling bizarre claims from UFO literature to excite ufologists and UFO believers into thinking that they have real pieces of a flying saucer.
 
A final piece of evidence suggests that the Bigelow’s men are overstating their claims. In 1996, Linda Moulton Howe commissioned technologist Nicholas A. Reiter, himself an anti-gravity researcher and a  fringe believer in UFOs and paranormal things, to investigate the “Roswell sample”—i.e. the same piece that Puthoff is now promoting. Reiter determined that it was earthly and, while unusual, was not impossible. In 2001, he updated his findings with this information: “The combination of bismuth and magnesium had eluded us for four years. But then one day, we found a reference to an obscure industrial process used in the refinement of lead. The process, called the Betterton-Krohl Process, uses molten magnesium floated over the surface of liquid lead. The magnesium sucks up, or pulls bismuth impurities out of the lead! Often, the magnesium is used over and over again…” Presumably, this is the same process that was patented in 1938, producing a thin crust of layered magnesium and bismuth, which is removed from the lead. When the magnesium is reused, new layers would form. (The Fortean Times endorsed this solution in 2016.) Remember that Vallée’s sample was specifically identified as slag—i.e., industrial debris. Howe refused to publicize Reiter’s results, preferring to string along the “alien” mystery. Of course, we would need a known sample made by the industrial process to test the “alien” versions against, but the distribution of the slag in industrialized nations (Vallée claims examples from France, Argentina, and America, for example) id s point in favor of this solution.

The new information here is that To the Stars seems to be collecting more of the same industrial waste that Linda Moulton Howe has been cycling through the UFO circuit for 22 years. 
 
The “space-time” and “gravitational” anomalies of the metal are also explainable, and have been explained for decades. Howe, Puthoff, and DeLonge all ran high voltage through the metal and made it move. Any piece of metal will react the same way to high enough electrical voltage. If I understand the science correctly, the unusual isotope ratios may also be a result of the industrial process, since the resulting metal is artificial and not a natural occurrence. 
 
Bottom line: The Bigelow-adjacent men may well be testing industrial waste and imagining they have found alien technology, or know better and are lying about it. A photo of the apparent industrial waste makes visible how decidedly unlike a flying saucer’s smooth, sleek, and fictitious finish it appears:
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​The bigger question is why they are promoting industrial waste as UFO wreckage, and why so many people affiliated with Bigelow are pushing this narrative. I could only speculate.
 
There are some uncanny echoes to the part of the 1947 Maury Island incident where Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman tried to pass off industrial slag to Ray Palmer as remnants of a crashed flying saucer, only to have the hoax revealed by a careful analysis, leading Dahl to admit the deception.
 
Puthoff went on to say that he felt the need to communicate with the public about mystery vehicles and therefore left government work to cofound To the Stars Academy with DeLonge. This is another area where I am dumbfounded. Supposedly, he had access to proof positive of space aliens, and their actual technology, and chose to … do nothing, to walk away, and to give speeches instead of working on actual space alien machines and metals. I guess that’s because his actual job didn’t really involve space aliens or UFOs but rather coordinating a series of speculative reports about future aerial technologies. In other words, he doesn’t actually know what he implies that he knows, and didn’t work on the things he imagines that people he admits he didn’t work with were working on.
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Americanegro
6/16/2018 12:41:40 pm

What's the count so far on alleged UFO crashes? I'm worried about the aliens' safety record.

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Viktor Golubic
11/17/2018 09:32:06 pm


My hunch is that the Bi-Mg sample was created as a layered slag that accumulated as a ring layer on the large smelting vats’ container lip during the extraction process of bismuth. Basically it was eventually chipped off the edge ...after multiple vats had been processed in the same container equal to the number of layers present.

The piece has a radius of curvature that can be determined if it matches that of the typical smelting vat circumference/diameter.

In order to achieve fine debismuthizing of lead bullion, the effects of temperature with the addition of calcium and magnesium on the bismuth during the removal process from lead is utilized.

During that process bismuth is formed on the surface and scaled off...but Mg and Ca are added ... to the vat to initiate the process ... I believe Ca was also detected in the piece and this can’t be just a coincidence.

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Viktor Golubic
6/19/2019 04:32:16 pm

Update: After seeing closeups of the layers, and more material from the collection received by Linda Howe, I strongly believe the layered material is non substrate overspray accumulation deposit from high purity Bismuth (routinely available as a sputtering target) and high purity Magnesium/Zinc targets (typically available as a 99/1% Sputtering target) from a Magnetron Sputtering Chamber using Argon Plasma as the Sputtering Ion. Since Zn sputters at a higher rate than magnesium you will typically see it deposit at 97/3% from a 99/1% source, which is exact what we find to be its composition. The chamber targets are typically 2 inches in diameter with a machine finish. In Linda’s 3 part presentation on YouTube, we see an 2 inch Sputtering target in the collection she received, providing further proof of this origin. The complete layers would take about 125 to 150 hours to deposit. Typically the chambers aren’t cleaned often allowing this accidental accumulation on the inside machine rough surfaces within the same chamber which account for its undulating growth as a slag waste material over time. I would look for subtle oxidation surfaces within the layers to determine how often the chamber was possibly opened and exposed to air during substrate part change-outs. The actual part being coated is unknown, but patent searches reveal many possibilities for seeing these metals in close association with one another as part of more complete processes.

Viktor Golubic
6/19/2019 04:47:09 pm

Adding further... the greatest radius of curvature of the part may also reveal the size of the deposition chamber along several possible surfaces within its housing ... that it would have accumulated upon as layers from each separate puttering episode. It could then be compared with those likely chambers in the market.

Mike
10/22/2019 08:14:26 pm

Viktor- what kind of things would be made with that type of sputtering treatment? What industry?

Shane Sullivan
6/16/2018 12:47:57 pm

"Regular readers will recall that former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ..."

This is so typical, Jason. Always picking on the Democrats. =)

"But specifically, he alleged that the metal was '3D-printed' with different layers of different metals."

Nice of our interstellar visitors to use a technology we're familiar with in the 21st century.

"We call ’em ‘stovepipes.’ You have a lot of people with lots of detailed information about some particular aspect, but they don’t talk each other even if it is sitting at the next desk."

Oh, yeah, you know, just like...stove pipes?

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Huh? What?
6/17/2018 10:59:33 pm

Would you care to make a smart aleck remark about them using electricity too?

Your stove pipe thing makes no sense.

Do better.

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Locke
6/18/2018 12:05:21 am

Just seems odd that the aliens all seem to use technology or technology similar to contemporary stuff.

Shane Sullivan
6/18/2018 12:13:22 am

Sorry, let me be more clear: I had no idea why "a lot of people with lots of detailed information about some particular aspect, but they don’t talk each other even if it is sitting at the next desk" would be called "stovepipes".

I've since googled the term, and found out it was a piece of bureaucratic jargon I had never heard before.

HUH? WHAT?
6/18/2018 01:00:19 pm

"Just seems odd that the aliens all seem to use technology or technology similar to contemporary stuff."

If there were aliens visiting us it wouldn't be odd at all. We use technology dating back at least to Rome: plumbing and scissors.

Oraneg
6/19/2018 06:00:09 pm

Jason, you wrote:

"acting surprised that a classified military program may have tested aircraft with advanced materials that were not publicly described for several decades after testing began. This should surprise no one."

With that in mind, has it occurred to you that this paradigm also applies to the materials in Nevada?

In other words, there's hell of a lot that you and the vast majority of the public do not know. So all you are doing is speculating.

Meanwhile, Hal Puthoff has some very serious cred. So you're walking on some very thin ice when you start postulating about the wisdom of his recent career moves. Thinly veiled ad hominem is not a good look.

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w.p.kronkat
6/16/2018 02:00:48 pm

These clowns really get me laughing so hard.
They must feel that we are even more stupid than they are. They are con people. Every time i think i've seen/heard/read the absolute lowest limit of stupid, these clowns come along with more crap like you describe here. I am now convinced that stupid has NO lower limit, it actually is a bottomless pit.

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Bezalel
6/21/2018 08:05:23 pm

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

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Tom mellett
6/16/2018 03:01:08 pm

The amazing vagueness continues! This just posted on the TTSA Instagram account. A quote by Dr. Hal Puthoff, the VP of Science and technology for TTSA:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkDn_U9g-6T/?taken-by=Tothestarsacademy


“Interest is continuing.
Negoatiations are continuing.
The programs are being looked at.
A lot is going on.
I and my colleagues spend a lot of time in Washington talking to committees that are looking at this from many different angles.”


But wait! There’s even more detailed and exacting vagueness in the official TTSA comment that accompanies the above Puthoff quote.


“In addition to nurturing existing relationships and educating domestic policy makers, our team is formulating global strategic partners. Foreign countries that don’t want to see their information disappear into a black hole of bureaucracy are eager to collaborate given our commitment to public benefit.”

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Americanegro
6/16/2018 03:12:39 pm

"negoatiatons"

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Tom mellett
6/16/2018 03:40:57 pm

Well that’s my typo in copying the quote, but now I see the Puthoffian humor in my error, because John Alexander also gave a talk at that same Las Vegas conference and he is the pivotal army Colonel, who in the late 80’s guided Hal’s failed Remote Viewing DIA project into what became Bigelow’s NIDS project and led to AATIP and TTSA today.

Along the way, John Alexander developed many of the protocols for Remote Influencing, a real Hubbardian step up from passive Remote Viewing, which led to the research antics immortalized in the movie:

“Men who stare at Ne-GOAT-iations”

Americanegro
6/16/2018 06:22:50 pm

Darn! But still a happy accident.
"The programs are being looked at" makes it even better.

Riley V
6/19/2018 04:53:35 am

This sounds like it was lifted word for word from the mission statement of every POS “Stategic Planning” organization I’ve ever heard off.

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Riley V
6/16/2018 05:45:09 pm

I’m glad he was remembered, but where are “Art’s Parts” today? In the States? The Philippines?

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Crash55
6/16/2018 07:22:06 pm

I work with 3D printing and have been studying various forms of metal 3D printing for a while now. No one is interested in 3D printing if bismuth and very few processes are used with magnesium due to its flammability. Also the best layer height I know of for metal 3D printing is 30 micro-m. The parts would also look much better than what is pictured.

Terahertz wavelengths range from 1mm to 100 micro-m. A human hair ranges from 17 to 181 micro-m. So it would have to be the Magnesium layers being used as a waveguide but magnesium is actually used for radiation shielding so I see it attenuating and not transmitting the teraherts radiation.

Basically these guys know nothing of basic physics or 3D printing. Someone handed them a piece of industrial waste and they started attaching buzzwords

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Crash55
6/16/2018 08:46:09 pm

Here are some standard waveguides. They stop at 300 GHz but you can see the trend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide_(electromagnetism)#Waveguide_in_practice

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yougivemeaboner
6/16/2018 10:52:35 pm

You give me a boner.

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Machala
6/16/2018 11:15:13 pm

As someone who flunked high school chemistry 58 years ago - thus making me as eminently qualified as Puthoff & Co, to talk about magnesium-bismuth and UFO metamaterials, - I have a couple of serious ( sorta ) questions.

I know that the DIA and other government entities are VERY interested in nano-technology for use in aerospace development. Wouldn't any self-respecting alien civilization have advanced to this type of spacecraft instead of using exotic metallurgic compounds ( or are these the same thing ?)

Second question, since you are working in 3D printing, can nano-fibers be reproduced using 3D printing ?
Forgive me if that sounds like a stupid question, but I am really curious about nano-fiber development and manufacture.

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Crash55
6/18/2018 07:09:18 pm

Nano-materials covers a lot of ground. In reality it is a buzz word that applies to any thing that is nanometer sized. There is a lot of work in nanograined metals, and adding nano-clay to things besides the more common nanotubes, nanofibers, and graphene.

Yes any civilization advanced enough to get here would be using nano-materials of some sort. The layering of the material would be much more uniform and the part would not look like slag.

There is some nano level printers out there but they are mostly for medical (nanofluidics) or electronic applications (circuitry).

Nanofibers / nanotubes are grown not printed. You can by polymer materials (PLA, ABS, etc) with nanofibers / nanotubes /graphene mixed into them for printing. One company coats the outer layer of the filament with nanotubes and then microwaves it afterwords to increase the interlaminar strength. I did some research into making a reusable adhesive by printing a PLA/graphene layer that could be activated via microwaves.

Lmao
4/21/2020 09:50:42 am

Must be why they've got a 5 year contract with the Army to test it. Because everyone is dumb apart from you

Or maybe you just think being skeptical to the point of idiocy makes you sound intelligent

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Only Me
6/16/2018 09:50:11 pm

Very nice explanation for the "alien" metal, Jason.

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Ken
6/17/2018 03:05:05 am

(JASONCOLVITA), is your typical SKEPTIC / HATER blog, to get attention by CRITICIZING others! Like many of the others like him, why should we BELIEVE all of the NEGATIVE things JasonColvita writes and has to say about Hal Puthoff?!

So I ask JASONCOLVITA, why should we believe you? Who are YOU JasonColvita that we should believe what you say? YOUR words are NO more believable than the words and statements of
HAL PUTHOFF that you question!

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V
6/17/2018 03:55:22 pm

Generally we should believe Jason because we are capable of doing our own research and confirming that yes, everything Jason has suggested is out there in the public domain and does not require believing he has access to "classified sources." Also because we are not idiots who can't even spell the name that is right at the TOP OF THE PAGE. "Jason Colavito," honey. I don't know who this jasoncolvita person is, but it's not the author of THIS blog.

Please try again when you've had your brain cleaned up and restored.

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Hal
6/19/2018 08:31:10 am

Ken, you are fulfilling my role. Thanks.

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LA Raza Unida
6/17/2018 06:30:16 am

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Mandalore
6/17/2018 03:28:11 pm

Die you heathens! All will be purged in righteous fury!

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Americanegro
6/18/2018 06:41:29 pm

Isn't La Raza Mexicans and aren't Mexicans descended from Europeans? Why do you guys get to stay, especially after slaughtering the Aztecs?

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Riley V
6/19/2018 04:58:38 am

Most Mexicans have about as much European ancestry as most African Americans.
White people are not generally kind colonialists.

An Over-Educated Grunt
6/19/2018 08:35:30 am

Why do you specify white people? People in general are terrible to other people. In this particular context, Cortez could never have made it inland workout disgruntled Aztec colonial subjects. As a research cue I offer the phrase butterfly war. Only thing that differentiates white people in this regard is the opportunity to do it more.

Dave Haith
6/17/2018 07:01:39 am

As I see it this piece is simply a rehash of former postings in Fortean Times and UFO Watchdog.
See http://www.ufowatchdog.com/howeufodebris.htm
That doesn't make it irrelevant because technologist Reiter did indeed produce a report claiming that metal sample could have been produced on Earth using a little known process patented in the 30s.
I can't imagine those researching the recent samples aren't aware of this background history and in the end good science will either prove or disprove whether these materials are truly anomalous.
What did amuse me a little was that debunker Colvita uses the disinterest of the masses as evidence that none of this UFO stuff can be true.
He writes: "it is impossible to conceive of a world where intelligent beings from another world are buzzing through the skies regularly and literally nobody cares, except about how much money they can save by piggybacking off their technology."
I agree Jason - but that's exactly what IS happening and that's why Elizondo quit to work for TTSA.
He further writes: "This is the same problem I have with ufology and ancient astronaut theories. If these people genuinely believed that they had discovered true and incontrovertible evidence of an intelligence beyond human, surely they would be profoundly transformed and not utterly blasé about it. Every street-corner prophet who imagines he has heard the voice of God speaks with more passion and commitment than the men and women who say that they have proved that we are not alone."
Jason, many people HAVE been profoundly transformed are NOT utterly blase about it - it's just that you are mocking and debunking instead of listening!

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Jason Colavito link
6/17/2018 09:14:14 am

What's new, Dave, is that an official from TTSA confirmed that the previously debunked industrial waste is the kind of "alien" metal that TTSA is investigating. While you may feel confident that they have considered earthly explanations, I am not because Puthoff and his friends have a track record of ignoring disconfirming evidence and promoting sensational but insufficiently supported claims. Given that they have equally failed to deal with the explanations given for the military videos that they also promote as alien evidence, I have little faith that they are dealing fairly with objections to their extraterrestrial claims.

I was not using the uninterested "masses" to criticize Puthoff, but rather the specifically claimed lack of interest from the Pentagon, which (a) has a track record of interest in dumb ideas and (b) would be a key stakeholder should aliens ever really arrive.

"Colavita," by the way, is the name of my great-grandfather's cousins, who run the olive oil and pasta companies in Italy. I am "Colavito" with an "o."

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Americanegro
6/17/2018 12:38:02 pm

David Haith and Ken? Same person.

David Haith (@wotzitt) | Twitter
https://twitter.com/wotzitt
The latest Tweets from David Haith (@wotzitt). Retired journalist fascinated by people and world events. Special interest in anomalous phenomena.

"it's just that you are mocking and debunking instead of listening!"
===
"it's just that you are mocking and not just believing instead of just believing!

Once something has been debunked it makes no sense to listen, except for entertainment purposes.

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Wilson kemp
6/17/2018 10:25:26 am

No obscenities please.

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Frank Booth
6/17/2018 02:32:26 pm

Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

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Dudwiser
6/22/2018 02:27:29 am

That's uncalled for. Shit deserves better respect than being tied in with Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Joe Scales
6/17/2018 11:31:41 am

"This is the same problem I have with ufology and ancient astronaut theories. If these people genuinely believed that they had discovered true and incontrovertible evidence of an intelligence beyond human, surely they would be profoundly transformed and not utterly blasé about it. Every street-corner prophet who imagines he has heard the voice of God speaks with more passion and commitment than the men and women who say that they have proved that we are not alone."

So they should act more crazed to convince you of their integrity in this regard? Is that the sort of thing that generally is needed to sway your judgment?

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Jason Colavito link
6/17/2018 12:22:38 pm

Not crazed, Joe, but if you thought seriously that you had made contact with a nonhuman intelligence, wouldn't you be at least as enthusiastic about it as NASA scientists get when talking about their space missions?

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Americanegro
6/17/2018 12:45:36 pm

"if you thought seriously that you had made contact with a nonhuman intelligence, wouldn't you be at least as enthusiastic about it as NASA scientists get when talking about their space missions?"

If I may jump in here, Stephen Greer certainly is that enthusiastic, and believes he is or was able to summon UFOs. Whitley Strieber/Streiber is/was similarly enthusiastic. As I understand it, the To The Stars people only think they have alien artifacts, not that they've contacted alien intelligences. It's possible that I missed something of course.

Jason Colavito link
6/17/2018 01:09:43 pm

It certainly true that some of the ufologists are enthusiastic, and might be genuine believers who really feel transformed. I'm speaking more of the seeming opportunists who can't seem to muster enough emotion to convince anyone but their marks that they have really made the amazing discoveries they claim.

Americanegro
6/17/2018 02:29:11 pm

Okay, now I'm on your wavelength. "Marks" is the exact right term; DeLonge and To The Stars think it's punk rock to make yourself richer by fleecing idiots. Their core business is getting mo' money and their unofficial slogan is "We goin' to Sizzler! We goin' to Sizzler!"

It bears remembering that as you pointed out so well, DeLonge has started a company whose sole purpose is to pay him money.

Matt
6/19/2018 04:09:36 am

Isn't that the sole purpose of every company? Only the means and motives of getting the money changes between companies.

Americanegro
6/19/2018 11:16:09 am

Emphatically no. The purpose of most companies is to make profit for the shareholders. The purpose of TTS shareholders is to pay money which will go to Delonge in his mandated minimum annual payment from the company.

Kal
6/18/2018 03:38:48 pm

Seems the symposium is on something a wee mite stronger than Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Interesting they cannot actually verify or test the 'alien metal'.

Also most elements in space and on Earth are going to made of variations of the same stuff. Sure there can be alloys and synthetics, but basically it is metal or carbon or maybe crystal, or some other basic form found anywhere.

So if it was an alien metal, we would still be able to recognize it chemically. It might register as containing some radioactive element, some exotic form of metal, and still be perfectly like terrestrial metals, because a terrestrial planet will be made of the same stuff elsewhere.

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Americanegro
6/18/2018 06:58:53 pm

"alleging that they have unusual isotope ratios"

Anyone else notice that they never specify the isotope ratios, in this case 24Mg, 25Mg and 26Mg? (Imagine the numbers are superscripts)

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Frank Stalter link
6/19/2018 08:31:07 pm

This is a pretty good article. The fact is you've got four scientists of some repute saying a lot of the same things about these curious fragments. I believe they believe they're on to something. Thanks for the link to my site. I would recommend looking at professor Sturrock's paper. He goes into quite a bit of detail about how many labs have tested the material he has/had in his possession. It's linked between the Vallee video and the Puthoff quote well down the page:

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Harry Harris
6/20/2018 03:00:45 pm

Colavit"O" makes some interesting points of discussion but like other skeptics and debunkers the points are obviously based on "confirmation bias". That is defined as tendency to seek or consume information from a perspective that confirms one's preconceptions. The same could be said for the so called "UFO Believers". It is interesting that both sides attack each other with this trait in common. But neither has any of the physical evidence in question to analyse under public scrutiny what the material actually is. Calavito does produce some historical facts and then tries to correlate them to support his view on the material(s), as actual fact. Until the material(s) and documentation are produced in a public forum and then given to analysis under the public province there is no answer to what these materials are (if they exist) and where they might come from. Colavito's views on this are purely speculative just as so many others are. Unfortunately this is so common with this subject and is part of the enigma attached to it. However with the recent revelations on the Nimitz 2004 incident and larger media's attention to this, things are changing. Video, various interviews and support documentation on this incident have made it fairly clear that there are flying objects that the military cannot identify even with the most sophisticated of instruments at hand. They also have flying properties described as
not possible even by our most advanced planes today. This should certainly be of great significance on all sorts of levels whether these objects are extraterrestrial or not. . . . and yes, they are UFO's.

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Bezalel
6/21/2018 08:22:54 pm

You have "confirmation bias" bass-ackwards, upside down, inside out, and are forgetting or ignoring the basic scientific precept that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The burden of proof is NOT on the skeptic; it is on those making claims of extraterrestrial provenance.

None of the evidence put forth so far, in all cases, meet the standard

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Harry Harris
6/22/2018 12:02:52 am

In the case of the "material(s)" it is not me making any claims or speculations. It is Mr. Colavito. I think if you actually understood my comments you would know that. Oh, and yes many skeptics do have a "confirmation bias". Would be great to have the material, if it exists, examined and analysed using neutral but public labs etc. I mentioned this in my previous comments. I am not sure who you are saying "making claims of extraterrestrial provenance" but for me that is an option that is possible in certain cases. It is not the only option just one of them.

Rock it Rooster
6/22/2018 03:05:17 am

No the problem is extraordinary evidence is a code word for "I need an alien or alien ship".

I think their evidence is the video encounters, the military witnesses, the lack of any country with the ability to do this, the radar tapes, and maybe or maybe not the materials they have.

What I find debunkers doing is taking each piece of evidence and then manufacturing explanations that use the dart board approach of "Russians, missiles, helicopters, secret CIA test, guinea pigs of some test." They then quickly discard each one that the evidence easily proves is wrong--but not until the goad and insult people first to discredit them...until they can fill in the blank with their own unknown (military black project is the old standby) that can't be proved. Then they take the next piece of evidence and do the same thing. They then take all these multiple pieces and build this shaky reasoning that "X" wasn't special, it was most likely this because of all these points we dismissed with unsubstantiated guesses.

This is the old Blue Book approach to take "extraordinary" reports and make them mundane, dismiss them, or blame the witnesses for being frauds or fools. You don't have an alien or an alien ship, so no video, picture, radar tape, or evidence you have is going to work. All of that was "probably" a bird, balloon, hoax, etc.

Right now the Nimitz encounter to most debunkers is a military test that was conducted, this is US tech that we tested on our own guys to see how well it worked. Of course that's ridiculous and can't be proved, but that means any other evidence can be tied in to this theory and dismissed quicker. Nothing is extraordinary then, its just a secret that we can't prove but since we said it and we use half baked reasoning and throw in "science" then we know what we're talking about. No, you really don't "know", you are using substitution to cook the books to fit your tastes.

Bezalel
6/23/2018 09:45:46 pm

Ugh...
and <heavy sigh...>
Neither of you, Harris and Rooster, is coming close to viewing this subject with any sort of critical thinking. I'm guessing you do not have any education in Physics or in Philosophy, namely, logic. For this I cannot fault you, I suppose.

Despite this, here is an elementary homework problem. Do NOT reply until you have thought about it, STUDIED IT, for some time:

What actually constitutes physical evidence of extraterrestrial provenance? (some given material, ship, biological entity, technology, etc)

Do NOT TYPE before you think.
What would actually prove that something was manufactured, created, invented, designed, developed, evolved OFF PLANET...


Think about it

If I give you 2 years to formulate an answer, I will bet some significant dollars and change you cannot come up with anything substantial without tripping over the first step.

Example: the profound ignorance latent in this statement by Harris:

"......have made it fairly clear that there are flying objects that the military cannot identify even with the most sophisticated of instruments at hand. They also have flying properties described as not possible even by our most advanced planes today."

Ever heard of black projects?
What makes you think you know everything there is to know about advanced flying machines? Have you seen it all? What's your physics background, pilgrim? Think an Army colonel has seen it all? Or Air Force pilots with top secret clearance?

Certain divisions/channels of the military were 40 years ahead of most engineers/scientists in the 1940's for Christ's sake. They've had 70 years SINCE THEN to develop further these technologies in secret.

Use logic

2nd example: Holography was invented in 1947. How many holographic phenomena today (70 years later) could be misidentified by the vast majority of people like you and me as "alien"?

Use Occam's razor

The likelihood that ANY so-called material, entity, ship, technology, you name it, etc., originated off planet (meteorites excepted maybe) is so close to NIL, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, it isn't even worth arguing.

Ingenious HUMANS have had more than 7 decades to play.

People like Colavito try to learn people like you, and yet they/you persist in the uncritical acceptance of the biggest false premise ever contrived.

The fact that Puthoff doesn't seem to care about the alien question tells the whole story right from the beginning, as Colavito implies.







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americanegro
6/23/2018 10:36:33 pm

I know about black projects. I grew up in one.

"What would actually prove that something was manufactured, created, invented, designed, developed, evolved OFF PLANET..."

Easy. A living organism of unknown type that could do math, math not arithmetic. Start with the unit circle so there would be no language difficulty.

I'm not calling you a bitch but your challenge is easily answered,

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Bezalel
6/23/2018 11:29:07 pm

Way wrong
Your error resides in the definition of "unknown" (type)

Unknown to whom?

americanegro
6/24/2018 02:57:27 am

Unknown to any random street Negro. You keep playin' your game, I,ll be over here looooking gooooood,

Rock it Rooster
6/25/2018 02:24:07 am

I think you need to study more of the subject. There are people studying UFOs that also study black projects, and even those in black projects that admit to studying UFOs because we can't do those things.

The alien evidence you want is stated to exist, that's why we play this game. Do they have material, a ship, or dead alien...I don't know. What I do know is when people want the information that military and intel witnesses state they saw, we get the run around. We get FOIAs sent back, we aren't allowed access to these documents. Oh sure, more black project mystery meat to use has the reason why.

The Scientific Method is NOT ALLOWED to be used, which is very helpful to debunkers because they scream "NO PROOF", and investigators say "We are not allowed access even to some witnesses and documents...the government does not allow this to happen'. Tough to prove a secret when people intentionally lie to you and hide facts from you, and face no repercussions for doing so.

Holography...show me your proof of concept of this global use that registers on radar. That causes physical effects to its environment. This sounds great, but not a lot of people that have studied the subject see it as a plausible answer. You would be talk show celebrity if you can prove it.

Black projects...oh here we go, the great "X" that explains every unknown with another unknown. Despite the fact in the 1940s and 50s we didn't have this level of tech. Oh and we just played around with this magic tech during the Space Race and possible WW3, zipping around the planet and hovering over our own and Russian nukes to test things out. We somehow have silent sonic boom technology, but we don't use any of it for our military. We have orbital craft that plays games off the coast of Mexico for days, oh we won't use it, we just did that to test this craft in broad daylight, cuz the US intel/military complex is that dumb.

Your "zilch" opinion on aliens are easy to say, but that's not science, we will continue to investigate, continue to ignore Occam's cult believers that misuse his statement as an absolute--not as it was intended that the simpler answer is "more likely" not always "the answer". See your problem is that there is evidence that demands more investigation, its not the smoking gun YOU want now...sorry but all the evidence I mentioned before means we need to study more. If this was a court of law and you were up for murder, I'd think you'd want all evidence taken into account...we have a lot of evidence and witnesses, and expert witnesses, and the evidence so far points to non-humans that control these craft. That is not a proven fact, that is not a scientific fact, but a lot of people that keep seeing more of this evidence, the more we think something is going on....science uses thought experiments all the time when the material evidence or testing is not there and discover the future. Debunkers stick with the past and use only what is established as substitute answers...to even claim they have an answer on this subject is a religious ideal, not science, they "believe" it's a black project because that's what I know, so that's the answer. They know weather balloons, stars, stealth aircraft, SR-71, satellites, missile launches...yes that is the answer sometimes, but we're past that now. We have video and radar evidence that is not any "known" craft, experts that say so, science that says so...so lets investigate, not armchair declarations from people that don't study this.

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Bezalel
6/25/2018 05:14:48 pm

No
You need to study Physics
Hard

Evidence of a cover up does not mean we jump to the alien conclusion, which every one on the planet does who does not possess an in depth, intense and sustained background in physical science.

I don't need a smoking gun, I don't need now, I am not a debunker; I am perfectly fine with "more study of the subject is necessary". This is how science is done. But we live in a country where the public funding of science and interest level in science are both in the effing toilet. We watch sports, porn, foxnews, msnbc, we invest in defense, not education; not science; we pay jeff bezos 1/2 billion and pay professors 60 grand.

Get a degree in physics, that's how you START

That means Gravitational Relativity, Relativistic QM, Gauge Theory, Plasmas, Fusion, Superconductivity, etc. Not just undergrad shit

Once you do this, you will see there is no phenomenon (NO PHENOMENON) yet seen that cannot be explained by perfectly terrestrial causes, coupled with a government/military bent on security and longevity, necessitated by secrecy and diversion.

Diversion which is perfectly manifested and sustained by those who jump as you do to the alien conclusion, a very desirable situation for those who need that secrecy.

You have no idea what the level of tech the us military had in the 40s and 50s; No idea

Beyond what has been made public







Americanegro
6/25/2018 07:38:59 pm

"Gravitational relativity"? Not really a thing. Sounds like you need some physics courses, and not that made-up shit. Maybe start with undergrad. At a school that exists. That other people can see.

Bezalel
6/25/2018 08:48:55 pm

Sigh
Wrong
Yes it is a thing, and your point exudes minutiae

Gravitational Relativity as distinguished from (non gravitational) Special Relativity, they are two very distinct subjects.

I should have stayed with "General Relativity", and not attempted to be more communicative, my mistake.

Does not take away from my larger point

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Americanegro
6/25/2018 10:58:47 pm

People who actually know physics and can actually do the math generally use the proper terms. You're just a Miles Mathis wannabe with not even college physics.

I'm not calling you a bitch, but really?

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Bezalel
6/30/2018 09:17:13 pm

Yeah
Get university schooled, I've done it.
People who know the math and do the physics know that all ufo phenomena are likely of terrestrial origin, pion.

I've done the math
Done the physics
You have not
Growing up in a black project is not enough, just like being the janitor at SLAC isn't enough.
Get out your copy of Misner Thorne & Wheeler and start with the metric tensor
Then 12 other texts after that one.
Using the correct terminology on this forum is a terrible waste of space and detracts from the point.

No one who has made proper use of an advanced education in relevant physics gives credence to ETs on earth or "back engineered" alien craft.
They are ours.
There is a chasm between PhD and BS.
Just accept it, Wolter twin.



Robert Sheaffer link
6/25/2018 10:13:08 pm

Is this the same "sample" that Frank Kimbler will be displaying in Roswell at this year's festival?

http://www.ufofestivalroswell.com/crash-site-artifacts-displayed-at-the-iufomrc/

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Americanegro
6/26/2018 12:57:01 pm

No, it's not. To his credit Kimbler published the results (numbers) of the isotope analysis that he paid to have done at an actual lab.

Each of the samples he posted images of is smaller than a penny. The BLM has expressed interest in seeing them with an eye toward *possibly* confiscating them.

You can read about it on ufochronicles.com

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Crash55
6/26/2018 06:11:49 pm

Where on the UFO Chronicles? I can’t figure out why BLM would care unless they view it as an archaeological artifact of some sort.

I saw some one post that the people putting this slag forward are “respected scientists.” That I find highly suspect unless someone can produce there CVs.

As someone with a PhD in Mech Eng and working in a DoD lab on advanced materials and structures, I can say that I have seen nothing presented here that makes me think alien - either in the past or now.

Americnegro
6/26/2018 07:00:33 pm

Let's talk about composition. And effort.

Paragraph 1, you indicate that you haven't found the referenced article. "Where on the UFO Chronicles?"

Paragraph 2, you don't distinguish between two completely different samples. "I saw some one post that the people putting this slag forward..." (see paragraph 1).

Paragraph 3, you say "...I can say that I have seen nothing presented here..." You covered that in paragraph 1.

To be fair, I did typo the link but even if you used the bad one you'd be offered the chance to go to the correct one. A PhD like you should be able to find the article. (see paragraph 1).

Crash55
6/26/2018 07:16:29 pm

1. My comments are about this blog post and the comments on it not your link, since your link was to the sites front page

2. See 1

3. See 1

4. Why should I spend my time attempting to find a specific page on a site you linked to?

If you want to post a link to the specific article I will review it.

Americanegro
6/26/2018 08:32:46 pm

The link I gave doesn't go to a site, so it can't go to the front page.

On the front page of the site you get to by using the correct link is the story I was discussing.

"If you want to post a link to the specific article I will review it."

That's white of you Mistah PAichD! You want to be spoonfed but you meet the standards for rectal force-feeding.

Idiot.

Crash55
6/27/2018 07:02:39 pm

If you had an actual education you would realise that is the obligation of the person making the claim / reference to give the correct citation. So asking you to provide a direct link is not be lazy it is following the norm.

You are probably too old to have been taught how to cite a web page properly, though you should have been taught how to reference a magazine or book. You are supposed to cite the pages of the article not just the name of the magazine / book.

If the article was on the front page then a link to the main page is correct. When I followed your link it took me to an article about MJ12.

I was going to go and see if the link was now correct but then you decided to throw out your racist comments. I see no point in wasting time with a waste of space like you. Go back to smoking your crack pipe and make sure you resist the next time the cops pulls you over. You will be doing humanity a favor.

Joe Scales
6/28/2018 09:48:05 am

"I was going to go and see if the link was now correct but then you decided to throw out your racist comments. I see no point in wasting time with a waste of space like you. Go back to smoking your crack pipe and make sure you resist the next time the cops pulls you over. You will be doing humanity a favor. "

Dude... next time you call someone's comments racist, you should probably avoid getting truly racist in response.

It's times like this when I'm glad the site doesn't have an edit feature. Seeing into people's souls, and all that.

Crash55
6/28/2018 10:14:13 am

American Negro was racist as soon as he said "that's white of you Mistah PAichD." So I figured I would give him an equivalent response.

If you think mine is worse than his then you need your head fixed.

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Joe Scales
6/28/2018 01:45:39 pm

Yours wasn't worse than his? His was funnier, that's all I can tell you. But at least you owned up to being racist.

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Crash55
6/28/2018 02:06:13 pm

I find his more offensive because it was totally uncalled for. There was no mention of race or any ad hominem attacks before that.

Mine was intentionally mildly racist in response to mock him. That doesn't make me racist. So get off your high horse.

Joe Scales
6/28/2018 03:43:07 pm

Your remark wasn't "mildly racist". Wildly racist might be a better way to put it. Cringeworthy another.

Bet you regret it.

Crash55
6/28/2018 04:21:11 pm

If you think that was wildly racist you are very sheltered.

I regret nothing

Joe Scales
6/28/2018 07:49:10 pm

Here's what you said Crash:

"I see no point in wasting time with a waste of space like you. Go back to smoking your crack pipe and make sure you resist the next time the cops pulls you over. You will be doing humanity a favor."

You would never say that to someone's face. Only with the anonymity of the internet will you get away with it. Nothing mild about that. But please continue. Some folks don't know when to stop digging...

Crash55
6/28/2018 07:56:36 pm

Had he said what he said to me in person and I wasn’t in a work setting I would have said that or maybe something even stronger.

I don’t put stuff online I wouldn’t say to a persons face.

And now I am done with this thread, so feel free to say whatever you want about me

Joe Scales
6/28/2018 08:41:40 pm

"Had he said what he said to me in person and I wasn’t in a work setting I would have said that or maybe something even stronger."

You mean something even more racist???

crash55
6/30/2018 02:28:45 pm

There's nothing racist about saying "Go back to smoking your crack pipe and make sure you resist the next time the cops pulls you over. You will be doing humanity a favor." Anyway I like playing with young black boys so there's no way I'm racist.

Patrick link
6/28/2018 10:39:34 am

"Edge Science, a magazine whose articles about ancient astronauts and related claims..."

It's EdgeScience, not Edge Science, and the magazine has never published an article on ancient astronauts.

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Jay Oss
1/3/2019 02:47:51 am

"A photo of the apparent industrial waste makes visible how decidedly unlike a flying saucer’s smooth, sleek, and fictitious finish it appears:" The problem with this conclusion is that the picture is of the metal under a microscope, ergo the rough appearance. Linda Howe is a grade A nut job but you should take care to at least do a bit more research before jumping to an unfounded and uninformed conclusion about the picture to fit your views.

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Pie
8/17/2019 05:58:35 pm

So many upset sceptics clinging on to their religion while it crumbles around them

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Nobody
10/16/2019 02:04:40 am

So you want to criticize people who are actual scientists while you're not? bahahahaha Hysterical. Pretty obvious this ufo metal is bullshit. Just what do you have your degree in Jason? Hmmmmm Should you even be writing about any of this since you're really not qualified in any field of science? The ufo crowd has a lot to learn and so do you.

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RAMESH BALASUBRAMANIAM
5/25/2020 01:53:16 am

Late to the party. The amount of ignorance in this 'article' is mind-blowing. I am no UFO conspiracy nut, but reading this gives me the same feeling as reading someone's alien/UFO claim. Wild, biased and with a lot of holes in the logic.

Oh, and that picture? Its a microscopic image - it will be bumpy and crude. Do some basic research first.

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Wilton Schneel
9/6/2022 11:52:48 am

Interesting stuff. It’s unfortunate that the gullibility of the uninformed has become monetized. (Linda Howes books sell for a hard earned 50 a piece). Nothing new there.
I suspect that this is terrestrial r&d that needs a cover story. (UAP)
I’ve aLways felt that private wealthy interests have operated under the radar to produce advanced technologies which they have secreted.

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