From an Air Force secretary to a rancher's son - there are people on this planet who were privileged to have held material from another planet - the extraordinary "memory metal" UFO debris found fallen near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. Separated by thousands of miles and by decades of time, when located and reached by investigators, they have all reported the same thing: a mysterious metal-like material that can "remember itself". This intelligent debris can be crushed or bent and then instantly, seamlessly and silently recover its original shape without any crease or sign of deformation.

 

Now, for the first time, the names of every single person who has ever been said to have held this amazing material - along with their descriptions of it - have been compiled. It serves as a comprehensive historical record of witnesses to a most remarkable type of Roswell debris.

 

Though some of the debris that was said to have been retrieved from the Roswell crash site was extremely tough and lightweight (characteristics of some aeronautical metals), some of the material exhibited an additional property that had never previously been observed in any other metal known to man at the time: shape memory and shape recovery.

 

During the 1940s, at the time of the Roswell crash, the very concept of a metal with memory characteristics was "alien". Probably the strongest evidence we have that what fell to Earth in the 1940s was not from Earth is that such material did not exist on Earth at that time. The very fact that so many people from so many places - many of whom did not even know each other - identically spoke of an almost cartoon-like ability for the metal to "move" itself, is indicative of material that did not "belong". It came from another time and from another place.

 

WHY THE MEMORY METAL MATTERS

 

There were several types of debris material credibly reported to have been found near Roswell. This included an I-beam with embedded purplish symbols; a glass-like, fiber optics-like material; a porous foil fabric-like material with unique drape that could not be cut or torn; and larger, lightweight solid pieces that were impervious to denting by sledgehammer blows and incapable of being scratched or of being burned with acetylene torches.

 

But it is the uniquely described "intelligent metal" that could not be confused with anything made by man. It is possible that some experimental aeronautic materials science at the time could have produced advanced tough and lightweight material, but in 1947 a metal that could "morph" was a rather different matter altogether. It was entirely unheard of at the time. And even today, if you walked down the street and asked 100 people what "memory metal" or "shape recovery" meant, 99 of them would not know. Some of the witnesses to this material were old folks in rural areas with no higher education living in the 1940s. For them to speak of such things as morphing metal and of shape memory is astonishing. This point is often lost in discussions of the Roswell crash.

 

How likely is it that descriptions of such material would pre-date the actual first man-made manufacture of such memory metals, which would come nearly two decades later? Even then, knowledge of such memory metal (called "Nitinol") was restricted to military and materials scientists. In fact it was only when we began to see the advent of "'bendable" eyeglasses and its use in dental wiring did the general public begin to hear of such a thing. Clearly, memory metal is key to the mystery.

 

MEMORIES OF MEMORY METAL

 

These two recollections of the incredible metal are particularly noteworthy:

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