Roswel Aritfact Actually a Work of Art

Another piece of Roswell evidence has bitten the dust.

For the past several months UFO researchers and journalists have been following the case of yet another purported piece of Roswell evidence, the so-called recovery fragment much discussed on Art Bell's radio program and on the Internet. According to the story attached to the strange metal object, the fragment was pocketed by a member of the Army team that cleaned up the site of the 1947 Roswell crash.

In March 1996, the flat, triangular object came to public attention, and it subsequently has been on display in the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center, in Roswell, New Mexico. Analyzed for its metallic content, it proved to be made of earthly elements (gold and silver), but it a strangely layered structure that some people alleged betrayed an alien origin.

Randy Fullbright knows better. The Utah artist made the "Roswell recovery artifact" in his studio a while back, using an ancient Japanese metalworking technique. (The old Japanese were renowned for the metalworking; some sword blades, when examined in cross section, displayed dozens of layers of steel, created by continually folding and hammering the metal.) Fullbright gave the medallion to a friend, and had nothing to do with the piece showing up in Roswell some time later as an alleged alien artifact. In fact, when Fullbright first told folks at the Roswell museum that the object was his handiwork, his explanation was rejected out of hand. It wasn't until September that museum officials compared samples of Fullbright's other work to the "Roswell fragment" and discovered that the Utah artist had been right all along -- the triangle of silver and gold was his creation and was not from outer space.

The only mystery remaining is how Fullbright's objet d'art ended up being presented as alien in origin. The Roswell Museum says the man who brought it to them seemed sincere in his belief the medallion was picked up from the debris of the Roswell crash. Well, SOMEBODY made up the story -- handmade jewelry doesn't just become an alien artifact by itself!

The Roswell International UFO Museum intends to display Fullbright's artwork anyway. In the words of museum co-founder Max Littell, "We're going to make a display out of it and show [how] our research department works." That's all very well, except that it took an article by the Albuquerque Journal to convince the RIUFOM to listen to Randy Fullbright.

Authentic evidence that the Roswell incident involved an extraterrestrial device still remains to be found.

[Source: The Albuquerque Journal, 20 September, 1996; http://www.abqjournal.com/]

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