UFO MUSEUM and RESEARCH CENTER Roswell, New Mexico 400 North Main (606) 625-9495 FAX 1 505 625 1907 In answer to many, many calls concerning the piece of metal brought into our Museum concerning the 1947 Incldent, this information is to give an answer to the inquirys that have been made. On Sunday, March 24th, this gentleman brought in the item, in a frame with a glass face so it was protected. His story was that he received it from a party we will refer to as No. 2. No. 1 was the person in the Military stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947 and was one of the GIs who helped clean up the debris. It is obvious to accomplish getting the piece of wreckage he did, it had to be small enough to be placed in a pocket to avoid detection. So, No. I gave the material to No. 2, who placed lt in a frame. No. 2 then gave the Item to No. 3 who brought the material to this Museum on March 24th, 1996. No. 3 has presented the Museum with the item and it will remain in our possession permanently. On Friday, March 29th, The Roswell Chief of Police and one of the volunteers of the Museum took the item to New Mexico Tech in Socorro New Mexico for an analysis that had been scheduled at our request. The formal results will be available in a few days, but it was determined the metal was copper with silver on each surface. All metals were very thin and when all three were as indicated, the thickness was still I less than a dime would be in thickness. When the formal results are obtained (and we ask also for a layman's interpretation also) the experiments and search can and will continue in any direction that might lend informdtion. Stan Friedman, who most of you know, faxed us suggestions, and one paragraph of his letter is reproduced here. We solicit any additional information or proceedure that could be of help. Further, we will not release the names as indicated above as NO 1,2 & 3 to ANYBODY, as we all know the press would crucify anyone to get one of their "Scoops" and above all, the Military could appear and offer bodily harm to anyone who might be in their way--whatever that is.. 2. He didn't make any other measurements because they are not metallurgists. They do this test occasionally. Hardness, strength, structure, uniformity of thickness, etc. would all be useful. Certainly the tests tell us the samples is not a conventional iron, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, or titanium alloy. They don't tell us the exact composition or any information about special or non-special characteristics. Silver and copper are both normally thought of as soft with relatively low melting points. They are excellent conductors of heat and electricity, but relatively dense materials. The specific gravity of silver is 10.5gm/cc and copper is 8.96.. As oppossed to aluminum at 2.7 Mg at 1.74, stainless steel about 8.0 and titanium 4.64. Normally silver and copper are not thought of as structural materials. The piece could be part of a sophisticated special part of nuclear weapons or explosive generators requiring carrying a large electrical current... The Roswell Daily Record- April 5, 1996 Jason Bunch-Staff Reporter "Analysis of metal fails to refute claims of crash" Wherever it came from, somewhere along the line it fell down and went boom. Analysis of the piece of metal reportedly linked to the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash reveals that the sample was part of a larger object that did indeed suffer some kind of disaster. "It obviously came from a larger piece and the way it came from there was from a catastrophic event," Analyst Chris McKee said. "What that really means, I have no idea. It could be from an explosion, it could from a crash." The piece, which was turned into the International UFO Museum and Research Center March 24 by an anonymous source, was tested last week by McKee at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Initial results revealed that the sample was composed of silver and copper, but a written report lists traces of sodium, aluminum, silicon, iron, chromium, sulfer and chlorine as also present on the piece. According to McKee, the origin of those elements is unknown. "It could just come from handling or soil, we didn't clean the sample or anuthing so we have no idea what was on the surface," McKee said. Since the components of the piece are all natural elements, and could be found throughout the universe, the composition of the metal does not provide proof one way or another about what crashed in 1947."It doesn't really help decide whether it is extraterrestrial or not," McKee said. One thing is for sure though, it did not come directly from the weather balloon experiments known as Project MOGUL that the United States Air Force claim is responsible for the crash. According to Max Littell of the UFO Museum, Charles Moore, a member of the team that designed and worked on Project MOGUL, was at the test in Socorro. "He said it was not a part of the balloon, and he worked on the project before it was even known as MOGUL," Littell said. "It could have been part of extra instrumentation attached to it, but it wasn't part of the balloon, nor was it part of its inner-workings." Although the findings are promising, Littell noted that there is still no conclusive evidence that what crashed in the desert all those years ago was a UFO. "There are still a lot of 'could bes' and 'maybes' but no absolutes in this yet," Littell said. The next step in verifying the origin of the piece is tracking it back to its original owner. Littell said that the museum is currently working toward that end.