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— THE ROSWELL INCIDENT — Fragments of Evidence ROSWELL INCIDENT THE Evidence Fragments Analysis of metal pieces, supposedly retrieved from a UFO crash near Roswell, confirms that their purity and composition are unknown to modern science. have been reporting news about science, the environment and unexplained phenome- na on the nationally syndicated radio program, "Dreamland with Art Bell", since 1993. In the spring of 1996, host Art Bell received a letter, dated 10 April 1996, with a South Carolina postmark, that was signed only "A Friend" [see Twilight Zone, NEXUS 3/04]. The letter began: I've followed your broadcasts over the last year or so and have been considering whether or not to share with you and your listeners some information related to the Roswell UFO crash... The writer did not give a specific UFO crash date or location and still has not provided those specific details as of January 1997, even though Bell and I have repeatedly asked on the air for those facts. Different testimonies about UFO crashes near Roswell in different locations and different time periods have now confused the story, so we do not know if the anonymous writer means the now-famous incident of the first week of July 1947 on the Foster Ranch between Corona and Roswell, or another incident. One surprising detail from the South Carolina source was his statement that his grandfa- ther kept a journal and had described the crashed vehicle as "wedge-shaped" like a piece of pie, not shaped like a round disc. However, in the letters we received from this source, he referred to a "disc" perhaps because "disc" is becoming a generic term for UFOs regardless of shape. (Note, too, that any inconsistencies in word capitalisations are repro- duced exactly as the source wrote them.) The first letter continued thus: My grandfather was a member of the Retrieval Team sent to the crash site just after the incident was reported. He died in 1974, but not before he had sat down with some of us and talked about the incident. Iam currently serving in the [United States] military and hold a security clearance and do not wish to 'go public' and risk losing my career and commission. Nonetheless, I would like to briefly tell you what my own grandfather told me about Roswell. In fact, I enclose for your safekeeping ‘samples’ that were in the possession of my grandfather until he died, and which I have had since his own estate was set - tled. As I understand it, they came from the UFO debris and were among a large batch subsequently sent to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio from New Mexico... ANALYSIS OF "UFO" METAL SAMPLES In the package were many metal pieces in a variety of sizes ranging from one-quarter- inch squares, to a ten-inch-long by one-and-a-half-inch-wide thin strip, to one round piece nearly three inches in diameter and covered with circular grooves. There was also a series of small, connected rectangular "vents" in which the slits alternated in opposite directions from one rectangle to another (see Plate 1). Art Bell contacted me about how to study the metal pieces, and I in turn contacted a university professor who has become a research colleague. This professor has access to a scanning electron microscope and to energy and wavelength dispersive spectroscopic instruments which can precisely determine the elemental composition of metals and pho- tograph structure down to fractions of microns. Those tests confirmed that the metal pieces were nearly pure aluminum (aluminium). After I reported the energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) findings on the radio, we received a second letter (dated 22 April 1996) from the anonymous South Carolina source, further detailing the make-up of the retrieval team as "On-site", "In-House" and by Linda Moulton Howe ©1997 LMH Productions PO Box 300 Jamison, PA 18929-0300, USA Telephone: (215) 491 9840 Fax: +1 (215) 491 9842 E-mail: LMH333@AOL.com LMH Productions PO Box 300 Jamison, PA 18929-0300, USA Telephone: (215) 491 9840 Fax: +1 (215) 491 9842 E-mail: LMH333@AOL.com NEXUS +73 SURPRISING STATEMENTS FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1997