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At a depth of two feet he discovered In August, a man calling himself Mr Tubingen Town Attorney Dr Johannes three heavy, 10-12-inch diameter metal | Hase showed the three discs to the local Roemer Blum to start his own investiga- plates fully covered with dirt and soil. He = = with the editor, he went to tion. In June 1992 he was able to meet Mr showed them to Chemal, the farm worker, a local jeweller. He discovered that the i 7 and said he was going to take them to Mr __ plates were made out of very pure metals, one pol enema tery naa Harenberg. The man drove away and one of gold, one of silver and the third of - never came back. Instead he called the bronze. The silver was of higher purity The results are attested to by the German farmer on 7 August and sent him a picture than sterling. The gold was so-called ‘alt- Federal Material Inspection Authority. of one of the plates. Amazingly, it was gold’, gold of the highest purity. One plate is of a copper/tin alloy with covered by the same signs which had One of the persons present at the 10-15% tin, 1% nickel, and traces of iron, appeared in the field. Grasdorf pictogram at the time of ‘Herr _ less than 0.1%. When I interviewed Chemal he ruled out -Hase's digging, a Mr Pfeiffer from the The silver i il. all possibilities of a hoax. The plates were Ruhr area, was able to contact the finderin yer me wn rhe ake yy si too deep in the soil, they were too encrust- September. He learned the gold plate had Although the result is not high! ‘ ed with dirt to be something located there —_ been destroyed to sell it to a local jeweller AIthough the result is not highly unusu- for only a short time. Indeed, the mysteri- for a few hundred thousand Deutschmark, 4, it definitely rules out any possibility of ous digger came just at the right time, The other two plates were sold to Mr 4 hoax. The plates are much too valuable shortly after the first rain in the area for Pfeiffer for DM50,000 (about AUD _ to have been used for a mere joke. The weeks. A few days before, the ground $45,000). Whether this price was foreach ground was too hard for any undiscovered would have been too hard for digging. or both, I do not know. digging before or at the time the pictogram Before the pictogram appeared, the In the meantime, the controversial appeared. The field had been watched by wheat field was definitely untouched. German psychic and “channel of the Chemal Kucuk, the Turkish farm worker, Chemal told me he tried to clean the plates © Ashtar Command”, engineer Hermann Ug and it is definite that Mr Hase appeared at and that he could recognise there was —_from Reutlinger, allegedly received a mes- the scene the very first day after it rained. something on them. But he couldn’t see —_ sage from the space brothers, claiming the So, the ‘ ins: Wh 3 more because they were too crusted. "young treasure hunter was inspirationally a one According to German law the plates __ instructed to find the plates", and that they ed the “ys Plates beneath the formation? found on his land are the property of Mr _were placed there “about 300 years ago on And why? It phe the assumption of an Harenberg, and when speaking to the find- a former visit of the gods on earth as evi- alien component is legitimate. oo er on the telephone, he stressed this point. dence of this extraterrestrial visitation for The result was that the finder would not _ the afterworld". According to Ug they tell his name or his phone number and were made out of a “special metal alloy avoided all further contact with the farmer. unknown to terrestrial science”. The only thing sure about his identity is a At another channeling on 23 December photograph taken of him by Chemal. It 1991, Ug declared that “a metallurgical shows a man with a moustache in a blue- _ examination could very easily prove their extraterrestrial origin". This inspired the Michael Hesemann is a cultural anthro- potest author of seven books and publisher of Germany's leading meta- physical magazine 2000. He is also organiser and host for a number of international UFO confer- ences held in Germany. Tubingen Town Attorney Dr Johannes Roemer Blum to start his own investiga- tion. In June 1992 he was able to meet Mr Pfeiffer personally and arrange a metallur- gical examination of the plastes. The results are attested to by the German Federal Material Inspection Authority. One plate is of a copper/tin alloy with 10-15% tin, 1% nickel, and traces of iron, less than 0.1%. The silver plate consists of the purest sil- ver with traces of iron less than 0.1%. ; Although the result is not highly unusu- al, it definitely rules out any possibility of a hoax. The plates are much too valuable to have been used for a mere joke. The ground was too hard for any undiscovered digging before or at the time the pictogram appeared. The field had been watched by Chemal Kucuk, the Turkish farm worker, and it is definite that Mr Hase appeared at the scene the very first day after it rained. So, the question remains: Who deposit- ed the three plates beneath the formation? And why? It appears the assumption of an ‘alien component is legitimate. °° NEXUSe13 JUNE - JULY 1993