Description

I converted some 30 year old video clips into a format that can be watched today.

In April and May of 1996, radio show host Art Bell received three letters (https://artbellorg.com/roscrash.html) from someone who said their grandfather was on the "retrieval team" for the Roswell UFO crash. The first letter included pieces of aluminum that include some likely prosaic human made objects (https://www.metabunk.org/threads/meta-materials-from-ufos.12995/), allegedly taken from the Roswell UFO. The third letter included a more unusual material, a layered mix of bismuth and magnesium that was later sold for $35k (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvge45/tom-delonges-ufo-research-comp…) though some suggest it may be waste from a lead refinement process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betterton%E2%80%93Kroll_process). In September 1996, researchers Linda Moulton Howe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Moulton_Howe) and Travis Taylor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_S._Taylor) subjected the sample to a 500kV electrostatic field using a Van de Graff generator. They recorded an 8.5 minute video, and Art Bell posted two clips from this video to his website.

This was almost ten whole years before YouTube, and video on the internet was complicated. I downloaded the .exe files from Art Bell's site and built a script to extract and convert them (https://github.com/kylemcdonald/art-bell-vmail-extraction).

In the video you can see these two clips:

\- 4:20 Bis/Mag moves by itself in considerable sideways motion and falls off insulator cap.
\- 5:20 Travis flips piece over so silver magnesium is on top - then there is more sideways motion when his finger enters the field.