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.

