Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:41:38 -0800
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto 
From: boliver@Direct.CA (Bill Oliver)
Subject: UFO*BC Report - UFO Crash In Chile??
List,
UFO*BC received a letter from a friend who previously lived in
the Vancouver area  now living in Chile.The following article is
from the latest issue of UFO*BC Quarterly and we post it here for
you to read and welcome your feedback.Check out our site for the
latest activity in British Columbia at http://www.ufobc.org
                 A Chilean Andes "Fender Bender"
                  by Graham Conway, 3-Jan-98
In 1995, a Chilean mining prospector of Japanese descent was in
the mountains when a large shiny UFO appeared above. It was about
30 metres in diameter. The craft hovered and then moved closer to
the mountain. This maneuver caused the vehicle to graze the
hillside, creating a flare in the soil. Barely negotiating the
hillside it ascended before disappearing from view. The witness,
J.T., went to the impact site and was able to recover four chunks
of an unknown material weighing about 3 kgs.
We have been informed that this account did not appear in the
local or national press. A variety of organizations displayed a
keen interest in the recovered metal, namely NASA, U.S, Air
Force, Chilean Air Force, plus various scientists and
investigators. Pieces were sent to Japan for analysis. Our
Chilean informant stated his own opinion, as follows:
The objects are extraordinary in shape and in looks; with all my
experience in mining and metallurgy, (I am a graduated mining
technician of a Chilean University), I have never seen any metal
that is or behaves like that in the laboratory or at eyesight.
First, according to the Japanese that studied the metal, it is
composed of 12 (first analysis) and 22 (second analysis)
elements, bonded and molten into one homogeneous mass, that
breaks in unusual fracturing, much like an irregularly shaped -
river polished rock type of thing - metal. I hope you get the
drift. The metal actually looks like Platinum or Silver; it has
Nickel, Aluminum, Zinc, and other gray metals, however it was
deemed to be + - 68% Copper; the unusual thing is that:
a) Does not conduct electricity at all; a wired rod applied to
its surface, only creates a field of sparks that dissipates
outward and rebounds; thus, if you place your hand in the
opposite end, electricity does not touch you(!) and is
Silver like in colour, no copper red!
b) It can not be detected or identified by radar!
c) It is not radioactive or responsive to a metal detector?
d) some faces are so well polished that it looks like steel, and
   it does not have sharp edges at all, even when fractured.
e) Pieces do not fit with each other, what makes me assume that
   there may be others to be retrieved; we will make a new
   exploration expedition to the site this spring.  One of them
   is exquisite in shape and thin.
f) It does not melt over 1500 degrees Celsius/over 1 hr. exposure.
g) Did not react to Nitric acid from 5% to concentrate exposure,
   Sulphuric acid 5% to concentrate, Picric acid 5% to concentrate,
   all the possible combinations amongst the three acids above over
   30 minutes exposure.
Conclusion : Unknown material not harmed by acids(!) under
microscopic observation from 100 to 1000 magnifying tests.
It would seem that the witness to this described event was also
abducted some time later. But not before the UFO had visited and
hovered over his home many times. As a result of his interaction
with these visitors and his ensuing experiences, he has written a
short booklet. It comes as no great surprise to learn he has been
assigned a mission to inform our planet's inhabitants to respect
each other, love and live in harmony with our neighbours.
I hope I don't sound too cynical when I point out that this is
not a new message, by any means. Therefore I must conclude that
the senders are more than a tad fed up with our very evident lack
of attention and demonstrated response. Anyway, "if you don't
succeed at first", etc.....
Mr. J.T. however seems to have gotten lucky in a direction seldom
accorded to other lucky(?) abductees. Not only was he taken on a
Cook's tour of the visitor's planet but he awoke with two soil
samples and two metallic looking pebbles. on which our informant
comments as follows:
I checked the soil and the pebbles with my Geologist lens and
this is my assessment :
a) fertile like soil:  Apparent composition is extremely fertile,
   some traces of turquoise (copper) is observed, dark like top
   soil, granular as earth, very interesting.  Opinion : very
   fertile soil.
b) Sand like soil: Apparent composition is a very un-earth like
   sand, composed of yellow crystals like zircon or rutile
   (titanium) 15%, flakelike chalcites much like silica over 30%,
   Copper like turquoise 15% and other rare earths.
Opinion: very strange mixture, hard to duplicate (all vials
contain no more than 10 grams.)
c) metallic like piece fingernail size: Apparent composition:
   Native Copper; looks like a fibrous asbestos???
Opinion: impossible to classify according to earth like matter.
d) metallic like pebble: one side is metallic like with
   iridescence like molten metal with outer rim golden and
   purple tinted center, thin as an orange skin, the other side
   looks corrugated and porous.
Opinion: hard to reproduce under normal circumstances, first of
its kind ever observed by me; looks metallic on one side and
non-metallic on the other side.
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