Coping: With Corso, Redux
Several times I have referred to a dandy (if not slightly mind-bending) by Philip Corso titled The Day After Roswell. In this book, not only is the reader told that the mother of all UFO stories - the purported crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico real, but worse than that, not only did the military pick up bits and pieces of technology from the crash and reconstruct some of it, but there was also some biological material recovered as well.
I won't spoil the whole plot for you in case you read Corso's book, but whether you choose to believe in UFO's, or not, the whole phenomenology of the July 1947 events is quite interesting. Backgrounding could begin with the simple Wikipedia entry here and can take you in all kinds of directions.
I know, you're thinking "Wasn't the crap about the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident in the U.K. enough on the topic of UFOlogy for the week?"
No. Because when this part of the predictive linguistics goes 'hot' - as it is now - there are some very interesting revelations buried in the noise which demand closer attention. Let me roll out the white board and run through this morning's bullet points.
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First, Corso alleges that core technology - things like transistors, lasers, and fiber optics, just to name a couple, came out of the 19476 Roswell crash. There was also reported to be many bits of an amazing metal included in the recovered debris.
It's this metal that I'd draw your attention to. The oddity of the metal reports are highlighted by the descriptions of its physical properties. The recovered pieces supposedly had some hieroglyphics on them and the metal which was thin sheet material could bent this way and that - or even crumbled up in a ball, just as you would paper, and yet would then return to its original shape when left untouched.
All of this would be just so much hooey, except that this week, the UFO Digest is reporting a study from Battelle Institute from 1949, which goes into some depth about the amazing memory metal, has been obtained. Not only does the Battelle report seem to confirm the existence of this wondrous 'memory metal' but it confirms other claims by a scientist named Elroy John Center who is named in one section of the report as working on the underlying metallurgy.
Turns out that ultra-pure titanium and nickel really can make 'memory metal' and that it was reportedly 'seeded' (like Corso's transistor, laser and fiber optics report in Day After Roswell) to the military from whence those latter is found their way into civilian applications.
A little more research finds that not only is Shape Metal Alloy (SMA) a real technology, but there is both one-way memory and two-way memory, according to a Wikipedia entry.
What's more, when we read the Wiki entry on shape metal alloy, the history section ties neatly into the 1949 work and subsequent Navy development behind secret walls:
"The first reported steps towards the discovery of the shape memory effect were taken in the 1930s. According to Otsuka and Wayman (1998), A. Ölander discovered the pseudoelastic behavior of the Au-Cd alloy in 1932. Greninger & Mooradian (1938) observed the formation and disappearance of a martensitic phase by decreasing and increasing the temperature of a Cu-Zn alloy. The basic phenomenon of the memory effect governed by the thermoelastic behavior of the martensite phase was widely reported a decade later by Kurdjumov & Khandros (1949) and also by Chang & Read (1951).
The nickel-titanium alloys were first developed in 1962–1963 by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and commercialized under the trade name Nitinol (an acronym for Nickel Titanium Naval Ordnance Laboratories). Their remarkable properties were discovered by accident. A sample that was bent out of shape many times was presented at a laboratory management meeting. One of the associate technical directors, Dr. David S. Muzzey, decided to see what would happen if the sample was subjected to heat and held his pipe lighter underneath it. To everyone's amazement the sample stretched back to its original shape.[2][3]
There is another type of S.M.A., called a ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA), that changes shape under strong magnetic fields. These materials are of particular interest as the magnetic response tends to be faster and more efficient than temperature-induced responses.
Metal alloys are not the only thermally-responsive materials; shape memory polymers have also been developed, and became commercially available in the late 1990s."
I wasn't aware, until I read up on the field, how much of this shape metal alloy had already come into consumer applications. But, sure enough, under Nitinol, we find it is being used in...
"1) Couplings, (2) Biomedical and medical, (3) Toys, demonstration, novelty items, (4) Actuators, (5) Heat Engines, (6) Sensors, (7) Cryogenically activated die and bubble memory sockets, and finally (8) lifting devices."
Which translates to orthodontic materials, golf club inserts, stents for heart patients, suture and highly biocompatible applications, resilient glasses frames and some watch springs, a kind of thermostat, cell phone antennas, and you'll love this: underwiring for bras!
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Taken not individually, but as a body of work, it seems that the 1947 Roswell crash was a lot more than just found a museum and kick of Roswell New Mexico's tourism project.
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If you're looking for a 'Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory", here's one that you don't want to throw out:
Suppose that both the US and Germany in the years leading to - and after - WW II both made tremendous breakthroughs in a wide range of scientific efforts, such as antigravitics perhaps using the Biefeld-Brown Effect.
Let's further suppose that some of the Germans who were involved in the famous Nazi Bell ("Die Glocke") experiments in time/space bending had accidentally stumbled into new technology and that some portion of the Nazi hierarchy was able to escape to a foreign country (Argentina or the Antarctic, just for example) where they would have continued their Fourth Reich developments, but rebranded perhaps.
Then let us further suppose that after the war, those scientists which were not involved and came to America, were not really the cream of the crop and that there really was some technology lost which then 'went underground'.
The crash of the Roswell craft certainly would have evened the playing field up, but its possible that to this day, there's a secret technology race underway.... OR...
Not from here entities in some way had gotten to leaders of the US via something like the 1952 Washington D.C. mass UFO sighting case.
In either event, the bulk of humans (you and me) would really be incidental pawns in a very large chess game where the elimination of a large segments of humans (like us) would be fine with those who are playing at the next higher level up.
