Frank Stalter
Paranormal Maven
This is the clearest and most compelling piece in the series. It literally demands mainstream media attention.
http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2010/08/roswell-battelle-memory-metal-new.html
The history of titanium itself merits mention. Today titanium is ubiquitous, but in 1947, it was only a laboratory curiosity. Titanium was never commercially produced until late 1948 . . . . by Manhattan Project contractor DuPont. The entire titanium industry was developed around US military demand for titanium for advanced aircraft.
Let's look at titanium production:
1945-a few pounds
1947-two tons
1951-500 tons
1954-5000 tons
1956-35000 tons (projected)
"The exponential growth of metallic titanium production is unparalleled in the history of metallurgy."
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed032p439
It is as if someone in government said, after decades of wood and then steel aircraft manufacture, it's titanium! The metal had been known more than a century, a process for it's extraction from the ore since the '30s. The question becomes why?
http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2010/08/roswell-battelle-memory-metal-new.html
The history of titanium itself merits mention. Today titanium is ubiquitous, but in 1947, it was only a laboratory curiosity. Titanium was never commercially produced until late 1948 . . . . by Manhattan Project contractor DuPont. The entire titanium industry was developed around US military demand for titanium for advanced aircraft.
Let's look at titanium production:
1945-a few pounds
1947-two tons
1951-500 tons
1954-5000 tons
1956-35000 tons (projected)
"The exponential growth of metallic titanium production is unparalleled in the history of metallurgy."
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed032p439
It is as if someone in government said, after decades of wood and then steel aircraft manufacture, it's titanium! The metal had been known more than a century, a process for it's extraction from the ore since the '30s. The question becomes why?