Stalk Forest Research Group Plans Excavation


Marion: Albert Bouchard, Spokesperson for the the Stalk Forest Research Group of New York City announced on August 14 that they had secured permission to commence an archelogical-styled excavation on the Lanier Farm reputed as the site of an extraterrestial crash in 1882 (see: Iowa's Roswell: The Wreck Of 1277, July, 1997, Vol. 4, Issue #7).

     "Mr. Lanier has decided that now is time to discover once and for all what has poisoned that portion of his family's farm for over 60 years," Bouchard announced during a lecture on extraterrestial visitations at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

     According to Bouchard, when his paranormal research agency offered to test the site with subsurface sonar for free, Lanier agreed. The results of the tests, Bourachard says, are tantalizing.

     "There's something buried there. Something big. Our scans showed the density of this object becomes impenetrable at 60 feet below present day ground surface. Now, I'm not saying this is or isn't a meteor; it could well be just that. However, some of my research has detected a faint paper trail of the material recovered by the Roeser Expedition in 1884. There are sound, firm indications the US Army back-engineered this metal at the Rock Island Arsenal to increase the thermal tolerance in cannon rifling. There is also evidence that the US Navy later used experimental armor piercing shells made of this material at the Battle of Manilla Bay on May 1, 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Recent marine photos taken by the Phillipine Ministry of the Interior of the sunken Spanish ships show impact holes melted through the armor plate."

     Yet, Dr. Elliot J. Sky of the University Of Emmetsburg Materials Research Institute considers Bouchard's notions laughable.

     "The first large commercial pouring of steel didn't happen in this country until 1866. The technology for producing that kind of metal in large quantites didn't exist here until then. It developed very quickly though. By the turn of the century, all sorts of comparatively exotic steel alloys were being produced all over the world---especially in ordnace. It sounds more likely to me that a nickel-iron meteor is buried at Ely. Many nineteenth century industrial metalurgists studied meteors to learn about heat-stress. There's no big mystery. As for the photos, they show exactly what you'd expect to see of ship that's been under sea water for a century: rust-cicles."

     The Stalk Forest Research Group has meanwhile invited a Third Eye Over Iowa reporter to join their excavation at the alleged crash site next month. As always, Third Eye will keep its readers informed of any development.





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