At online auctions, and just from hand, there is an active trade in parts that have fallen off from the "flying saucers". Is it really possible to acquire something alien?
The pioneer of the extraterrestrial flea market was a very serious earthling - physicist Jim Hughes from Florida. In 2002, he placed an advertisement in a newspaper: they say, I have a UFO fragment weighing 90 grams. Ready to sell. And the buyer will not fail - he will have the opportunity to reveal the secret of antigravity by means of a wreck. Apparently, taking into account the prospects, the physicist requested as much as $ 10 million.
Hughes said that he himself did not see a UFO. And cannot prove if the debris is related to aliens. But he gave interesting details. As if back in 1957 his friend Joe Wilson saw a huge metal "cigar" in the sky of New Jersey. She hovered over the dump. Then the hatch was thrown open with a crash, and some pieces flew to the ground. Apparently, the aliens knew where to throw the garbage - in the landfill, and not anywhere. When the UFO flew away, Joe picked up one piece and handed it to Hughes.
According to Hughes, the piece of alien debris turned out to be an alloy of indium and antimony. But at the same time, as the physicist assured, if you bring other metals to the fragment, you can feel "strange pressure on your fingers." At the same time, the alloy began to vibrate and change its weight.
In the midst of the hype, Hughes had gone somewhere. The optimists assumed that he received the money and left. Pessimists - that the physicist escaped, fearing exposure.
OUTSIDE "DROP"
Unlike Hughes, Bob White himself witnessed a UFO. In 1985, he was traveling with a friend from Denver to Las Vegas. At night, they noticed strange lights. And getting out of the car, they found: there was also an "incredibly huge UFO" hanging in the sky. The lights flew up to the ship and merged with it. Then the UFO flew away. But the matter did not end there. Bob saw orange fire falling to the ground. It turned out to be a piece of metal, red-hot. Having cooled down, it turned into a heavy "drop" 19 centimeters long, similar to a pine cone. It was her friends who picked her up.
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White sent the "drop" several times for analysis. And each time I got the answer: the alloy consists mainly of aluminum (85%), silicon (9%) and iron (2%). And there are no signs of extraterrestrial origin in it.
In 1996, the National Institute of Advanced Sciences took over the analysis. Scientists have spared no money, but the result is the same - the piece consists of an alloy known in metallurgy.
To recoup the mediocre money spent, Bob created the Museum of the Anomalous in the town of Reeds Springs (population - 465 people). The entrance cost $ 5, the main exhibit was a "drop", an eyewitness story was attached. The undertaking failed, and then White decided to sell the ill-fated item. He appeared on television several times and passed a lie detector test twice, proving both times that he was not lying. But this did not encourage anyone to buy an alloy.
In 2009, 78-year-old Bob asked his website visitors to chip in to raise $ 20,000 for a new analysis.
STEALED CHIP
Recently Greg Kirby confessed that thirty years ago he hid a piece of the fallen object and now wants to sell it.
On that day, March 29, 1979, a ball of fire swept over Middletown and crashed on the eastern outskirts. Kirby, then 21, was the first to arrive at the crash site. The debris was the size of a cigarette pack and had a cellular structure. When the pieces cooled down, he put them in a bag, came home and called the police.
The experts who took away the entire bag of debris declared that it was an earth alloy from a fragment of a fallen satellite. Until there are no analyzes that can prove the opposite, Greg can hardly count on a large amount.
BUSINESS IN RUSSIAN
Ufologist Nikolay Subbotin from Perm once said: “As crazy as it sounds, there is a certain 'market' where artifacts that have no earthly analogues are sold at insane prices … Another question is whether the sellers of artifacts represent all the danger that threatens them as by the forces of the earth, and by the forces of the unknown."
Less than ten years later, Subbotin demonstrated that he despises all dangers. In October 2007, at the Internet auction "Molotok.ru", he put up lot # 237646383 "UFO wreck" with pictures and results of examinations. The starting price was also quite insane: 3 million rubles.
According to the papers, the sample was 99.9% pure tungsten. It was accompanied by a story about how in 1965 one UFO defeated another over the Kola Peninsula. Many years later, ufologists picked up a "suspicious metal" there and attributed it to a "knocked down plate". The fact that pure tungsten is easily produced by the powder metallurgy method did not stop them.
The auction ended even more interesting: an anonymous buyer allegedly bought a piece for the required amount. Knowledgeable people suspected that something was wrong: this buyer with a zero rating bought the item from a seller with the same rating. That is, they had not made deals at the auction before. And the amount is rather big.
It seems that Nikolai bought the lot from himself, registering under a different name. I tried to find out from him how everything really was. But the seller preferred to remain silent.
Honest cheater
In the summer of 2009, "the real wreck of the Roswell UFO wreck" was put up for auction on eBay. It was traded by a certain Dave S. Goodman. And according to legend, this piece was hidden for many years by the relatives of one of the officers of the cleansing group. Attached to the legend was a 1947 tag signed by an Air Force base commander, a newspaper clipping about the transfer of the wreck to the New York Paranormal Institute, and the results of a study on a reputable laboratory letterhead.
An unexpected confession followed:
“Naturally, this is not a real UFO piece. But flaunt it, and only you will know that it is not genuine! No, this is not just foil or metal - this is a very expensive exotic material. He will fool anyone into believing that he is seeing the Roswell wreck. I was offered a lot of money by people who consider it genuine, but the principles do not allow me to cheat anyone, passing off the exhibit as real.
My other forgeries have been shown on national television and are in private collections of the rich and famous. Now you can purchase one of the famous fakes and cause a sensation by showing it to your friends or even everyone. Some clients make nearly $ 1,000 a day showing only one fake!"
One can only guess how many fakes Goodman made and where they might have surfaced. When it comes to money, you can expect anything from people …