Ubatuba [was:
Michael Wolf's
Samples in Italy]
From: Gildas Bourdais
<GBourdais@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999
12:37:40
EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999
01:34:00
-0400
>Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:41:22 -0400 (Eastern Daylight
Time)
>From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Michael Wolf's Samples in Italy
Gildas Bourdais:
To Nick Balaskas, and the List :
In a message dated 7 April, you made a very interesting announcement
regarding the Ubatuba fragments :
| There is an erroneous belief, even among some
ufologists, that the
Ubatuba UFO samples no longer exist.
Back in 1957 Dr. Fontes acquired three small samples of
a UFO which
allegedly exploded over Brazil in 1957.
Sample #1 was divided into several pieces and was
distributed to researchers
Dr. Luisa Maria A. Barbosa and Mr. Elson Teixeira and >also to Major
Roberto
Caminha of the Brazilian Army and Commander J.G. Brandao of the
Brazilian
Navy.
The reports from Dr. Barbosa and Mr. Teixeira are on
record but the
reports from the Brazilian Army and Navy and their pieces were never
forwarded
back to Dr. Fontes. They may still exist if anyone cares to make a
search
for them.
Samples #2 and #3 were transferred to APRO, the U.S.
based UFO organization
run by the late James and Coral Lorenzen.
Tests were done on these two samples, which still exist,
and their reports
are on record too.
In 1997 Dr. Peter A. Sturrock of Stanford University
arranged for Dr.
Sam Wang of Vancouver, Canada to determine the isotopic ratios of
Magnesium
in a piece of one of these samples.
The results of this test showed that the Magnesium
isotope Mg24 (which
makes up nearly 80 percent of terrestrial Magnesium) was nearly absent
in the Ubatuba UFO piece that was tested.
Although it is believed that isotopic ratios for a given
element are
the same anywhere on Earth, they do in fact vary by up to a few
percentage
points, especially for the lighter elements.
The surprising, different isotopic ratios found in the
Ubatuba UFO piece
(certainly much larger than the alleged 0.01 or 0.1 percent in the Dr.
Wolf's sample), would be impossible to account through natural causes
alone.
We are now waiting for other researchers using different
forms of testing
to confirm Dr. Wang's test results.
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These findings are in accordance with the observations made by
Paul
Hill in his book Unconventional Flying Objects, published in 1995. Paul
Hill noted that the density found for the first fragment, in Brazil by
the Mineral Production Laboratory, was 1.866 instead of the expected
density
of 1.741, for Earth magnesium. But it was very close (0.005 higher) to
the density of the pure isotope Mg 26, strongly suggesting its
production
by separation of isotopes, a process which has been achieved only
for
Uranium so far (see pages 226 to 234). It would also explain the high
purity
of the sample.
Paul Hill was very sorry that this fragment had not been
tested in a
mass spectrometer for confirmation. But we learn now that Dr Sturrock
had
an isotopic analysis made in 1997 on one of the samples, showing that
the
most abundant isotope on Earth, Mg 24, is nearly absent.
This is an extremely important finding, it seems to me, and I
am surprised
to learn this almost by chance, on the occasion of a debate over
Michael
Wolf's samples. We are in 1999 - why so much delay for such announcing
a finding?
BTW, why did the report of the Pocantino workshop deal with
the Ubatuba
fragments in the form of a "brief mention" (page 209) by Jacques
Vallee?
(the man who lost one of the precious fragments in a Paris gutter, and
who is a skeptic on the case). This report was made public in June
1998,
and that's about three years after the book of Paul Hill !
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