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Here is the complete report from Joe Fandrich of Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO paid for by Flame TV for "Jane Goldman Investigates". Fandrich refused to believe Bob's story how he found it, but believed where he found it. That's not good science. Dr. Robert H. Gibbons

Bob White’s Unusual Object April 2, 2004
Joe W. Fandrich Planetary Research Geologist, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO

INTRODUCTION

On Sunday, March 28, 2004 Mr. Bob White presented me with an unusual object for my inspection. The object is tear-drop shaped, approximately 28.5 cm long, 8.0 cm around at its greatest diameter and tapers to approximately 1.0 cm in diameter. The object’s surface exhibits a “feathered” pattern. The object has bilateral symmetry through the long axis when oriented with the most rounded side either up or down. With the mosted rounded side down and when observing the object from the front, this symmetry is obvious with two distinguishable nodes present on the top of the object.

The object has been cut by saw near the front (greatest diameter) and at its tail (smallest diameter) by Los Alamos National Laboratory, December 11, 1996. Various laboratories have made studies of this object and have determined its metallurgy, quantitative and qualitative chemistry, density, etc.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this investigation is to present a non-prejudicial scientific examination of the Bob White object and to present viable explanations based upon fact for its existence as we see it today.

METHODS

1. Cursory physical examination of the whole object in question and hearing of Bob White’s experience in collecting the object, with follow-up study of previous documentation and study of a section cut from the tail only of the object under a metallurgical microscope “(March 28, 2004);
2. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) observation of the microscopic character of the object’s tail surface under high power (three micrographs were taken under various powers);
3. Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) analysis of the object with a qualitative chemistry result of the object’s primary elemental constituents; thee locations on the object were tested to determine any differences that might exist from previous work accomplished bhy other labs, and
4. Application of physical laws as a factual representation of the creation of the object with the elemental chemistry and physics as confining parameters.

RESULTS OF TESTING AND OBSERVATIONS
Detailed Optical Microscopy

The surface of the aluminum object is ornamented by melt particle migration “feathers”. These feathers are actually thousands of minute tails that have resulted from molten aluminum migrating from the frontal
area of the primary object to the rear and ultimately forming a tail. This process of melt material migration began as the object’s surface temperatures came greater than +/- 600 degrees C or about the
temperature that can be attained in a common household oven. The increase in surface temperature of the object is a result of friction developed as the object passed through a gaseous atmosphere at high
velocity. At +/- 600 degrees C ablation of the primary object begins and melt material migration toward the tail is initiated. The presence of the feathered surface, a tail and an ablation ring support this observation.

SEM/EDS Observtions--Dr. Richard C. Dujay, Center for Microscopy, Mesa State College

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to observe the outer physical surface of the Al object. The qualitative chemistry chemistry of the object was determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS).
SEM micrographs (three) were collected and given to Bob White’s group. EDS was performed and the qualitative chemistry was determined.
SEM observations were determined to support the hypothesis of external melt of the AL object. EDS chemistry reconfirmed the object to be primarily aluminum (Al), Silicon (Si), and iron (Fe).

Discussion--Object Provenance: A Glaring Omission by Previous Studies
The Bob White object is the result of deformation of a primary aluminum casting (part). This casting was designed and manufactured by molding a common alloy identified as a “360 aluminum casting alloy” (determined by previous lab. work). This alloy is not present as a naturally occurring metal. This object was not entirely molten while the melt migration “feathers” were being formed. Only the exterior frontal portion of the primary casting was ablated and melted. This casting (i.e. part) experienced a high velocity passage through an atmosphere. This high velocity passage caused heating of the Al object, ablation and erosion of the primary part’s frontal area, development of the feathered surface as a result of melting aluminum from the primary object and ablation ring, and cretion of the long tail of the object as observed today.

Conclusions--A Summary of Probabilities and Possibilities
This unusual aluminum object was discovered on the Earth’s surface. How it arrived at the surface or how it became the property of Bob White is not important to this investigation. However, it is important to note that this object has been severely altered from its original shape by high velocity atmospheric friction and formed into the tear-drop shape we observe today by passage through an atmosphere. Probabilities of the history of this object range from the purposeful distruction of an off-course test
missile from the Green River Missile Range, Green River, Utah, to the atmospheric breakup and frictional disintegration of an Earth-orbiting staellite. These scenarios would explain the 360 aluminum casting alloy as well as the description of Bob White’s observations during the object’s discovery. The possibility that the object is the product of a failed high-voltage electric transmission line has been suggested, however there are no such transmission lines in the area where this object was collected by
Bob White (i.e., the area described by Bob White near the Utah/Colorado state line on Highway 6 and 50). The radiation emitted by the object is not considered unusual as most objects in our universe emit radiation, including the human body. Whether or not this object is the result of other than a primarily terrestrial event is only to be entertained as conjecture. At this time and with the results of this and prior research, it is possible to state that this is a manufactured object hat does not exist naturally and that is the product of an explosion and/or high temperature velocity passage through an atmosphere, probably Earth’s, with frictionally induced alteration and associated exterior ornamentation (i.e., “feathered” tails)

Respectfully submitted April 26, 2004 Joe W. Fandrich

Figure 1. Aluminum object exhibiting a crude ablation ring, a feathered surface, and a typical tail developed by melt material migration from the front of the object (i.e., from right to left in this figure)
Figure 2. Frontal view of the aluminum object showing the bilaterial symmetry (right and left halves divided by a line between A and B), the melted outer “crust” and the inner (lighter) portion of the primary or original relatively unaltered portion of this object.
Figure 3. X-ray exposure (48 hours) performed by Robert H. Gibbons. This exposure supports the +/- bilateral symmetry of the primary object. The two dark areas represent the object’s casting pattern as observed from a frontal view. The casting formed a concentration of Aluminum 360 alloy which allowed for this exposure to concentrate these dark areas; the result of radiation emitted from the alloy.
Figure 4. Ablation ring (black outlines).