Oak Ridge tests the alleged 1947 crash metal
In 2024 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working for AARO, analysed a layered magnesium-zinc-bismuth specimen claimed to come from a UAP crash around 1947 and to work as a terahertz 'antigravity' waveguide.
2024 CE · 35.93, -84.31 · status: explained
The account
The Army's DEVCOM had earlier studied the specimen under a research agreement with To the Stars Academy, and gave Oak Ridge one parent sample and three subsamples from February 2023. The metal is about 97.5% magnesium and 2% zinc, with repeating bands of bismuth mixed roughly one-to-one with lead. The bismuth is nanocrystalline or amorphous, not the pure single-crystal layer the waveguide theory needs. Magnesium isotopes sit on terrestrial fractionation lines and lead isotopes match ordinary Earth lead (ORNL synopsis, pp.2-7). In a July 2024 supplement AARO linked the composition to mid-century magnesium-alloy research and judged the piece likely a test object or manufacturing by-product, while stating that neither it nor ORNL could verify where it came from.
The sceptical view
The tests settle what the metal is, not its history: Oak Ridge says the original use 'remains undetermined', and AARO says the chain of custody rests on conflicting personal accounts.
Connections in the atlas
- The Flint Ridge, Ohio, metal
- Ubatuba fragments
- To The Stars Academy publicises the Navy videos
- AARO established