Link to article containing evidence included in revised post, before reading your response. I hope that my momentarily forgetting to include this link did not cause offense. I *did* include the link when I started this thread yesterday. Ross

Seems overly sensationalist. A small piece of aluminum, found in the desert, displaying minor attributes which are atypical of normal aluminum, so it must be "not from earth?"

Sure.

I suppose the probability that it's debris from some unknown campsite left behind in the past 40 years is out of the question... right?

Well found, nice article can,t wait to see the results of the further tests, leave off debunkers
Till this has been completed! Star and flag from me

It turned out to be an aluminum, silicon, manganese, copper alloy. It is not unknown, but it is used in construction and not usually found in a foil form.

Another important aspect of the material being aluminum and showing unearthly origins is that aluminum must be manufactured.

"either the lab made an analytical error or the material is not from Earth.”

Err.. am I missing something here?

Really?

Article not peer-reviewed. A little early for that. This is still in the testing stage. If the initial results are confirmed, I'm sure the scientific establishment will have much to say about it in the peer-reviewed journals. Isotopes are slightly different forms of a chemical element. How much of one as against how much of another makes a ratio. Matter on Earth has unique isotopic ratios of various elements. Another planet will have different ratios. Meteorites have been analyzed and were found to have different ratios than Earth. The meteorites came from the asteroid belt. The Roswell sample checks out at about twice the difference from the usual earth ratio as a meteorite. Seems reasonable that it could be from ever farther afield, such as another solar system. Ross

Wasn't this also a news story back in 2009? Roughly around this time of the year, too?

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Seems overly sensationalist. A small piece of aluminum, found in the desert, displaying minor attributes which are atypical of normal aluminum, so it must be "not from earth?"
Sure.
I suppose the probability that it's debris from some unknown campsite left behind in the past 40 years is out of the question... right?

Aluminum as such is not found in a raw form, so a sample is going to display some manufacturing properties. Methods such as ion-exchange chromatography will show such properties. If aluminum is not made that way, it begs the question "Where is it from?"
Really...on a supposed UFO crash site, the OP's assertion is not that way out of line. In fact, it really falls into just the sort of thing we'd expect. So...more testing ought to be in order. Edit to add "peer reviewed' to the testing protocol.

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Kimbler was able to find another lab with multiple certifications willing to do the work. The UFO Museum put up the money, and the results were back in five days.

Which? Which lab? They mentioned the name of the first lab, but not the second?

It will be interesting to see if the other lab test he has lined up support the first lab test. Its nice to find somebody actually doing research on something.

Interesting read. I'm curious about whether or not this means anything related to aliens though. I'm curious what will happen with this. I was thinking maybe the metal could've been altered in some way to accomplish something in a test aircraft of earth origin but according to further research the isotopic composition changes absolutely nothing about the majority of elements from a production standpoint. I'm not sure how accurate the results were. I guess time will tell.

Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Aluminum as such is not found in a raw form, so a sample is going to display some manufacturing properties. Methods such as ion-exchange chromatography will show such properties. If aluminum is not made that way, it begs the question "Where is it from?"

Oh well... then it must be from outer space!

Really...on a supposed UFO crash site, the OP's assertion is not that way out of line.

Sure it is, and it's a disgrace to the notion of UFO research to suggest that a small piece of a (known) version of aluminum, in the desert, decades after the reported crash could be extraterrestrial in origin.

It could be bits from an aluminum cookware set designed for camping, left in the fire too long decades ago.

There is no evidence that such a thing as an aluminum-alloy meteorite exists. In any case, the debris appears to be in very thin pieces, and layered. Does not appear much like a meteorite. If the initial lab results are confirmed by others, we will, of course, need to learn which labs were involved, and that they concur that the results were as claimed. The fact that a similar alloy may exist on Earth is not of the essence. It is the isotope ratio that will decide the matter of the sample's origin. Ross