The foil considered unburnable mentioned in Meditation Along Meteor Crater Rim is thought to have been a remnant piece of the mysterious late-forties so-called memory foil. Memory foil is said to be a thin metal-like material with unusual properties reported showing up in association with a crash of an unknown object in New Mexico in 1947 and considered by many as being of extraterrestrial origin.(see) All of the known foil connected with the incident was confiscated and it's whereabouts or existence since kept under wraps by authorities. Over the years rumors have surfaced on and off that bits and pieces of the material, unbeknownst to authorities, had come into the hands of others. Below is an excerpt removed from a much larger source, that gives example to such a happenstance.
The scene as it transpires below, comes from its original source, The Roswell Incident Updated. However, as the meeting unfolds, albeit not stated, it takes on the characteristics of --- or at least almost exactly duplicates --- a similar meeting written about in The Great 1947 Sunspot, Roswell, and Coronal Mass Ejections. That meeting is said to have occurred late one afternoon or evening between the famed astronomer and meteorite hunter, Dr. Lincoln La Paz and his friend, a mysterious bio-searcher at Clines Corners near the intersection of Route 285 and old Route 66 (now I-40) some 60 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico --- circa 1957-58 --- ten years after the crash. The story, as it appears in The Roswell Incident Updated, follows:
"Years later, in a meeting unrelated to any of the above (i.e., Coronal Mass Ejections in the orginal source), a discussion between La Paz and the bio-searcher turns to the events at Roswell. The bio-searcher retrieves a small wooden box much smaller than a cigar box and hands it to La Paz. La Paz opens it and inside is a piece of the foil-like material folded to about the size of a matchbook. The bio-searcher informs La Paz that unknown to Rickett (i.e., Master Sgt. Lewis "Bill" Rickett, Roswell Army Air Field Counter Intelligence Corps) or anybody else that day, the young boy had found and stuck the piece of material in his pocket, the piece eventually ending up in the hands of the bio-searcher. La Paz, who had seen similar material under very strictly controlled circumstances, is visibly surprised that the bio-searcher has such material. He sets the box down and redirects the conversation to another subject. With the lid open the foil mysteriously unfolds itself out of the container to its full extent, about the size of a small handkerchief, completely covering the box, the paper-thin foil displaying no sign of folds, creases, or wrinkles. With no visible interest one way or the other by La Paz except the initial surprise, the bio-searcher returns the foil to the box with no further discussion. What happened to that piece of foil or where it is now is not known. Some speculation has it that following the bio-searcher's demise, because of a perceived relationship to Sarira, that it was possibly co-joined into the fate of the feather mentioned in Meditation Along Meteor Crater Rim. Others suggest that once it became known that a piece of the material was in private hands it was appropriated by authorities."
Col. Philip J. Corso, cited above (i.e., in the original source) in regards to seeing the convoy arriving at Fort Riley, Kansas in the summer of 1947, writes the following in his book The Day After Roswell of the same or similar type foil:
"There was a dull, greyish-silvery foil-like swatch of cloth among these artifacts that you could not fold, bend, tear, or wad up but that bounded right back into its original shape without any creases. It was a metallic fibre with physical characteristics that would later be called “supertenacity,” but when I tried to cut it with scissors, the arms just slid right off without even making a nick in the fibres. If you tried to stretch it, it bounced back, but I noticed that all the threads seemed to be going in one direction. When I tried to stretch it width-wise instead of length-wise, it looked like the fibres had re-orientated themselves to the direction I was pulling in. This couldn’t be cloth, but it obviously wasn’t metal. It was a combination, to my unscientific eye, of a cloth woven with metal strands that had the drape and malleability of a fabric and the strength and resistance of a metal. I was on top of some of the most secret weapons projects at the Pentagon, and we had nothing like this, even under the wish-list category."
Since Corso wrote the above, wish-list or otherwise, in Discover Magazine, Vol. 25 No. 04, April 2004, a full 57 years after the mysterious crash at Roswell, Brad Lemley writes of a present day actual in reality known metal strip 8 inches long, 1 inch wide, and as thin as aluminum foil he saw that acts very similar to the late 1940s era memory-foil. In the article Lemley writes that William Johnson, a materials science professor at Caltech in Pasadena asks him "Try to tear it." Lemley first pulls it gently, then with all his might, with no results. "See if you can cut it," Johnson's postgraduate assistant Jason Kang says to Lemley, handing him a one inch long, quarter inch wide, thinner than a dime piece of the same metal. Lemley squeezes down as hard as he can with heavy-duty wire cutters, but the metal will not cut. He tries again with both hands still nothing. A steel sphere dropped on a rigid plate of the stuff bounces like a rubber Super Ball. Conventional metal would dent as the crystals that compose them were dislocated by the impact. But the plate --- an alloy made of zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper, and beryllium --- has no crystals. Any atoms that are displaced quickly snap all the way back, enabling the sphere to continue bouncing with little loss of energy. To see a fully updated description and current applications of present day technology that is in use right now, every day, please see: Liquidmetal Technologies, where they state, and I quote, "Another unique property of Liquidmetal alloys is the superior elastic limit; i.e., the ability to retain its original shape (memory) after undergoing very high loads and stress." They go on to say: "Liquidmetal alloys possess an 'amorphous' atomic structure, which is truly unique. By contrast to the crystalline structure (of conventional metals), no discernable patterns exist in the atomic structure of the unique Liquidmetal alloys. As such, properties superior to the limits of conventional metals can be achieved."
On or about Tuesday, July 8, 1947, Sergeant Robert Earl Smith, reportedly of the First Air Transport Unit, was a select member of a team assembled to load crates onto various transport planes allegedly carrying Roswell debris. According to Smith, during the loading operation, although it is not known how, one of the loading teams or a member thereof somehow came across a foil-like fragment, between two and three inches square. The unusual material was said to be jagged along the edges and could not be permanently folded or creased. Even after crumpling it up, it unfolded itself back to its former shape. Since then Smith has been reported as saying that despite the armed guards one of his colleagues was able to stash a piece of the strange fragment into his pocket. In a sworn and signed affidavit dated 10/10/91 Smith states:
"In July 1947, I was stationed at the Roswell Army Air Field as a member of the 1st Air Transport Unit. I worked in the cargo outfit with C-54s. My involvement in the Roswell incident was to help load crates of debris on to the aircraft. We all became aware of the event when we went to the hangar on the east side of the ramp. Our people had to re-measure the aircraft on the inside to accommodate the crates they were making for this material. All I saw was a little piece of material. The piece of debris I saw was two-to-three inches square. It was jagged. When you crumpled it up, it then laid back out; and when it did, it kind of crackled, making a sound like cellophane, and it crackled when it was let out. There were no creases. One of our people put it in his pocket."
C. Scott Littleton, former Professor of Anthropology and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California --- with strong research interest in the folkloric and mythological implications of the UFO phenomenon, primarily because of his own personal experience as a young boy observing the giant Zeppelin-sized object seen by thousands during the war years over Los Angeles, the so-called UFO Over L. A., related to the the six or eight hour nighttime Battle of Los Angeles --- in a question-answer interview regarding his knowledge of various aspects of the Roswell Incident, was queried on his opinion of Memory Foil. The interlocutor asked:
"I have read that the material the UFO was made of was thin aluminum-like foil and able to be crumpled, but not ripped or torn and always reformed back to its original shape. Is this your understanding?"
Littleton responds: " --- this has been claimed, especially by Brazel's son (Brazel was W.W. Mac Mack Brazel, the father, and the person who originally stumbled across the material on his ranch near Corona, New Mexico). It is entirely possible. We have since invented such substances, though I sometimes wonder just how "independent" that invention really was."
ROSWELL UFO
ROSWELL I-BEAM HIEROGLYPHS
ROSWELL CRASH DEBRIS, 1947.
SOLAR SAIL:-- I-BEAM LIKE BRACING,
FOIL SAIL MATERIAL, CIRCA 2005, U.S.
UFO OVER LOS ANGELES
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