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objects. If they were using anchors, what could the purpose have been? Could some of the early UFOs have been so primitive that the only way they could hover was by being anchored to the ground? Would spaceships from another world require anchors? All kinds of junk have fallen out of the sky throughout recorded history. Ivan T. Sanderson has in his files extensive lists of documented cases going back to Roman times. Ridiculous things such as stone pillars and heavy metal wheels have come crashing out of the blue, and there are countless cases of ice falls—huge blocks of ice, some weighing hundreds of pounds, dropping all over this planet. Charles Fort and others have found reports of ice falls predating the introduction of manmade aircraft, but the popular explanation today, when new incidents occur, is that the ice has fallen from the wings of highaltitude airplanes. The flying saucers have been spewing all kinds of trash all over the landscape. In nearly every instance, these materials always prove to be ordinary earthly substances like magnesium, aluminum, chromium and even plain old tin. Each of these incidents gives the skeptics new ammunition. Here again, I feel that these correlated ‘negative factors’’ build into a definite positive factor. In other words, the more negative a piece of evidence seems to be, the more positive it actually is. We can start with the slag dumped from the sky during the Maury Island, Washington, ‘“‘hoax’’ of 1947. Analysis of this material showed it to be composed of calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, zinc and other mundane elements. Heaps of this stuff have turned up since in New Hampshire, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and many other places following UFO sightings. It has often been found on hilltops and deep in trackless forests, places where it had to be dumped from the air. And it was found in Sweden in 1946. When a wildly gyrating metal disk appeared over the city of Campi- nas, Brazil, on Tuesday, December 14, 1954, hundreds of witnesses reported that it dribbled a stream of ‘“‘silvery liquid’’ into the streets. Government scientists collected some of this stuff, and Dr. Risvaldo Maffei later announced that it was almost pure tin. The egg-shaped object that police officer Lonnie Zamorra said landed outside of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964, left behind a metallike material on some rocks. It proved to be silicon. Silicon substances have frequently been found at touchdown sites. The Physical Non-Evidence / 155 Physical Evidence