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32 Truth About Those Alien Alloys

The Truth about Those

"Alien Alloys" in The New
York Times UFO Story

Is the government really stockpiling
materials in a Nevada building that
scientists cannot identify?

By Rafi Letzter

What to make of a Las Vegas building full of
unidentified alloys?
The New York Times published a
stunning story revealing that the U.S.
Department of Defense (DOD) had, between
2007 and 2012, funded a $22 million program
for investigating UFOs. The story included
three revelations that were tailored to blow
readers' minds:
1. Many high-ranking people in the an alloy made up of elemental gold mixed with it was mined, or what country uses that
federal government believe aliens have visited other metals, like silver or copper. particular alloy, that kind of thing."
planet Earth. "There are databases of all known If the aircraft had come from space,
2. Military pilots have recorded videos phases [of metal], including alloys," May Nyman said, that travel would leave telltale
of UFOs with capabilities that seem to outstrip Nyman, a professor in the Oregon State signs in the metal as well, in the form of
all known human aircraft, changing direction University Department of Chemistry, told Live spacefaring debris and ionization (changes to the
and accelerating in ways no fighter jet or Science. Those databases include electrical charges of the substance's atoms).
helicopter could ever accomplish. straightforward techniques for identifying metal Even if a chunk of alloy that hadn't been
3. In a group of buildings in Las Vegas, alloys. seen before did fall to Earth from outer space,
the government stockpiles alloys and other If an unknown alloy appeared, Nyman both Nyman and Sachleben agreed that it
materials believed to be associated with UFOs. said it would be relatively simple to figure out wouldn't necessarily have come from an alien
Points one and two are weird, but not all what it was made of. craft. In fact, Sachleben said, alloys strike the
that compelling on their own: The world already For crystalline alloys - those in which planet regularly - space-traversing alloys like
knew that plenty of smart folks believe in alien the mixture of atoms forms an ordered structure those found in fairly common nickel-iron
visitors, and that pilots sometimes encounter - researchers use a technique called X-ray meteorites - leaving behind telltale signs. The
strange phenomena in the upper atmosphere - diffraction, Nyman said. meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was even
phenomena explained by entities other than "The X-ray's wavelength is about the identified by the rare-Earth metals it left behind
space aliens, such as a weather balloon, a rocket same size as the distance between the atoms [of in certain geological formations in Earth's crust.
launch or even a solar eruption. crystalline alloys]," Nyman said, "so that means It's important to point out that while
Point No. 3, though - those buildings full when the X-rays go into a well-ordered Blumenthal did go on cable news and say the
of alloys and other materials - that's a little material, they diffract [change shape and alloys were unidentifiable mysteries, helping to
harder to hand wave away. Is there really a intensity] - and from that diffraction [pattern] spur speculation, that's not what his article
DOD cache full of materials from out of this you can get information that tells you the actually stated. Here's the full quote from
world? distance between the atoms, what the atoms are, Saturday's piece:
One of the authors of the Times report, and how well-ordered the atoms are. It tells you "The company [involved in the DOD
Ralph Blumenthal, had this to say on MSNBC all about the arrangement of your atoms." research] modified buildings in Las Vegas for
about the alloys: "They have, as we reported in With noncrystalline, amorphous alloys, the storage of metal alloys and other materials
the paper, some material from these objects that the process is a bit different, but not by much. that … program contractors said had been
is being studied so that scientists can find what "These are all very standard techniques recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.
accounts for their amazing properties, this in research labs, so if we had such mysterious Researchers also studied people who said they
technology of these objects, whatever they are." metals, you could take it to any university had experienced physical effects from
When asked what the materials were, where research is done, and they could tell you encounters with the objects and examined them
Blumenthal responded, "They don't know. what are the elements and something about the for any physiological changes. In addition,
They're studying it, but it's some kind of crystalline phase within a few hours," Nyman researchers spoke to military service members
compound that they don't recognize." said. who had reported sightings of strange aircraft."
Here's the thing, though: The chemists Sachleben agreed. From this statement, there's no actual
and metallurgists Live Science spoke to - "There are no alloys that are sitting in sign that there's anything unusual about the
experts in identifying unusual alloys - don't buy some warehouse that we cannot figure out what alloys themselves. All the Times wrote was that
it. they are. In fact, it's pretty simple, and any the DOD researchers tasked with finding weird
"I don't think it's plausible that there's reasonably good metallurgical grad student can UFO stuff collected some metal, interviewed
any alloys that we can't identify," Richard do it for you," he said. some people who had claimed startling
Sachleben, a retired chemist and member of the Nyman said that if metals did fall from experiences with it, and decided that it was
American Chemical Society's panel of experts, some mysterious aircraft, some forensics UFO-related.
told Live Science. "My opinion? That's quite experiments would quickly answer a lot of As for whether there's an explanation at
impossible." questions about that aircraft. least for the metals themselves, Sachleben said:
Alloys are mixtures of different kinds of "How has the hunk of metal changed?" "There's not as many mysteries in science as
elemental metals. They're very common - in Nyman said. "From my scientist's perspective, people like to think. It's not like we know
fact, Sachleben said, they're more common on that's the kind of question I'd be asking. Maybe, everything - we don't know everything. But
Earth than pure elemental metals are - and very if it has to do with world politics, and we want most things we know enough about to know
well understood. Brass is an alloy. So is steel. to know where the metal comes from, maybe what we don't know." []
Even most naturally occurring gold on Earth is there's some analysis that can lead you to where