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ejects metal over iowa by charles lear

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tales of ufos ejecting hot metal go back

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to the days when flying saucers were

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just becoming an american national

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obsession

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in fact the first flying saucer witness

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kenneth arnold

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encountered such a tale when he looked

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into the maury island incident

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for fate magazine and became the first

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privately funded flying saucer

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investigator

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in this week's blog we'll take a look at

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an incident that was reported 30 years

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later in council bluffs iowa

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according to an article by jason offit

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for the eastern jackson county missouri

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daily examiner

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published online on february 9 2011

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mike moore was driving through big lake

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park with his wife at 7 45 pm

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on saturday december 17 1977

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when they saw this big ball of red stuff

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in the sky

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moore said it hovered dropped something

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on fire into the park

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and then flew away according to an

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article by richard warner published on

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the website of the historical and

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preservation society

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of pottawatomie county council bluffs

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iowa at 7 45 pm

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that same night three teenagers driving

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to a store

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observed what seems to be the same

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falling red bull

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he went behind some trees in big lake

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park then there was a bluish white flash

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and two arms of fire were seen that shot

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out more than ten feet into the air

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thinking there had been some sort of

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crash they drove to the park to

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investigate

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they got out and walked towards a glow

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on a dike along the road

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when they got close they saw a glowing

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orange blob with a bluish-white

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crystalline center

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one of the witnesses described it as

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looking like a great big sparkler

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material reportedly dripped over the

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sides of the dike that was hot enough to

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start a small fire in the grass

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according to an article by greg jarrett

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for the southwest iowa daily non-peril

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published online on may 16 2004

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one of the teenagers kenny drake told a

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reporter from the omaha son in 1978

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that he saw four men about 18 to 19

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years old

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drive by in a tiny foreign car as they

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passed the men

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asked if the teens saw that thing fall

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out of the sky

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too the car then turned around and drove

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away according to jarrett drake also

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told the sun reporter that someone from

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the air force had called him

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and told him not to mention his sighting

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again jarrett talked to randy james

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another one of the then

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teens who had talked to the sun reporter

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in 1978.

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james said he had never been a real ufo

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buff

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and described the material as it could

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he said they

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picked up a piece of metal about the

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size of a toothpick

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and couldn't break it both james and

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drake described the crystalline center

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as being unaffected by the heat while

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the metal was cooling fire chief

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jack moore mike moore's father was on

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the scene after being called

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to respond to the grass fire according

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to offutt in the examiner article

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once the metal had cooled the fire

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department responders

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loaded the metal onto a truck and took

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it to the station

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mike moore told offit there was about

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one thousand pounds of molten iron

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laying on the ground

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moore claimed to have boxes of the metal

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in his shed according to him a torch

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would only heat it up

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a grinder wouldn't cut it and it

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couldn't be bent the metal was brought

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to the local griffon pipe products

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company

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and ames laboratory at iowa university

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francis labs told often about the

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results of the initial tests

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at ames we found the debris we examined

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to be consistent with smelter slag

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very similar to that from the few

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operations in eastern nebraska

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where they were using auto scrap to make

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manhole covers etc

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ufo investigator jacques fillet looked

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into the case

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and wrote up his conclusions for an

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article physical analyses and 10 cases

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of unexplained aerial objects with

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material samples

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published in the journal of scientific

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exploration volume

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valet's description of the council

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bluffs case begins on page 367

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and his analysis begins on page 368.

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looking into the likelihood of a hoax

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filet considered the possibility of

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someone pouring molten metal on the

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ground

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to do that someone would not only have

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to acquire molten metal

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but maintain it in that state during

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transport

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the only company nearby was the griffin

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pipe products company

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and works manager linton stewart

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informed valet that the company didn't

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pour over the weekend

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filet states the melting point is close

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to 2500

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degrees fahrenheit which would require

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transporting in a brick oven

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of six inch thickness with a large truck

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keeping the material at the melting

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his conclusion as to whether or not this

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was a hoax is negative

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filet also ruled out the possibilities

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that someone could have melted the metal

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on site using thermite

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that the metal had fallen from a

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conventional aircraft or that a

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meteorite might have impacted the site

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he then speculates on why a flying

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vehicle would have

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liquid metal on board he quotes j.r

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bunby of the university of durham

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the high conductivity of liquid metals

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makes them an attractive means of

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current collection

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for homopolar machines so if there are

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ufos

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flying around full of molten metal it

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seems we have one more airborne hazard

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to worry about

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it makes blue ice from airplane toilets