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The most renowned UFO case in America continues to yield more evidence as both scientists and civilians strive to prove that the Roswell crash was extraterrestrial. The incident, which took place in 1947, made headlines when the US Army Air Force issued a press release stating they had recovered debris from a 'flying disc', only to later retract their statement, claiming the material was merely from a fallen weather balloon.

Geologist Frank Kimbler is among the numerous experts who have disputed the military's official account of what crashed on the outskirts of this New Mexico town. Since 2010, he has been meticulously searching the alleged UFO crash site with a metal detector.

Kimbler has since discovered over 20 peculiar pieces of metallic material, most no larger than a fingernail. He has now submitted one particularly strange piece of metal for testing to the Discovery Channel's new series 'Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction,' reports The Mail Online.

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The tests revealed that the metal was '100-percent pure aluminum,' which experts have described as 'compelling evidence' that could substantiate claims of an alien crash in the area decades ago.

"I was really trying to champion truth throughout," Chrissy Newton, co-host of the new series, told DailyMail.com. She added that she was not afraid to debunk some well-known UFO cases if that's where the facts led. "I want to prove that it's identifiable,' Newton said, 'not everyone's gonna like that."

However, Newton found the tests on the pure aluminum mystery metal intriguing, she said, partly because a former Pentagon UFO investigator told her that "pure aluminum has been connected to multiple other UFO crash sites."

Newton didn't reveal the name of her Pentagon source, but described them as 'a source formerly from AATIP,' the US military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was partially tasked with studying UFOs from 2007 to 2012. Kimbler, an earth sciences and geology teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute, told Newton and her co-host that he had retrieved this specific metal fragment, about a quarter-inch long, from an ant hill within the Roswell debris field.

The geologist pointed out that testing ant hills for metals gathered by ants is a common strategy used by gold prospectors, mining geologists, and metal detector enthusiasts alike. According to Jim Davis of Utah's geology survey, insect colonies are known for collecting durable and sometimes buried materials to construct their tunnel systems.

"Thanks to the ant's undertakings, prospectors have discovered rich lodes of gold, copper, nickel, turquoise, diamonds, and many other minerals," Davis stated. Over time, Kimbler has admitted that many of the metal fragments he's recovered from the notorious crash site might have a more terrestrial explanation.

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"Some of it could be rubbish, camper rubbish," he told KRQE in 2018 after the Bureau of Land Management got wind of his hobby, "but some of it could be interesting." To verify what Kimbler had found, the new Discovery Channel series sent the metal sample for chemical testing via mass spectrometry to independent experts at the Texas-based firm Cerium Labs, which specializes in aluminum metallurgy.

Dr Tom Hossain, chief scientist at Cerium Labs, reported that the aluminum metal fragment was not only unusual for its purity, but it also differed from the typical industrial-grade aluminum used in manufacturing. "Most Al [aluminium] in use are anodized Al," Dr Hossain said.

Anodizing is an electrochemical process that converts the metal surface into a decorative, durable and corrosion-resistant finish known as an anodic oxide. It protects the metal underneath that finish from corroding in reactions with the oxygen molecules present in both air and water.

"This is not an alloy,' Dr Hossain wrote. 'This is pure aluminum."

Kimbler's discovery adds to a growing body of eyewitness testimony, and even declassified government records, that seem to suggest that the Roswell crash involved some form of exotic metal materials. More than 40 witnesses to the Roswell crash mentioned that a metal-like material from the site could "remember itself" when folded or physically altered, according to UFO researcher Anthony Bragalia.

Bragalia managed to get his hands on over 150 pages from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2021, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. He claims these documents provide fresh evidence about where this 'memory metal' might have ended up.

The documents include multiple mentions of 'advanced technology reports' related to Nitinol, described as a shape recovery alloy. According to Bragalia, Nitinol shares similar properties with the 'memory metal' found near the Roswell crash site.

The FOIA response suggests that the Pentagon was investigating if Nitinol could be used within the human body to enhance health, according to the researcher's blog, UFO Explorations. "Although much of the reports' details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man," Bragalia stated.

"Based on the documentation received,' he continued, 'it appears that the retrieved debris exhibits other extraordinary capabilities. In addition to 'remembering' their original form when bent or crushed, some of these futuristic materials have the potential to make things invisible, 'compress' electromagnetic energy, and even slow down the speed of light," Bragalia added.

Even Colonel Richard Weaver, the lead author of the Air Force's official 1994 report that revisited the Roswell case, has warned that the military's current official explanation is far from definitive. "Did we say it was 100-percent? No way. We didn't say that," Col Weaver stated in a 2020 podcast.

He also hinted at 'politics and a lot of manipulation going on behind the scenes' during his 1994 inquiry, but maintained his confidence in his report's conclusion - that a secret military spy balloon was what crashed at Roswell. Not every case presented to the hosts of Discovery's new 'Alien Encounters' show boasts such intriguing physical evidence and documentation, as each submitted 'alien encounter' is scrutinized to the same high investigative standards.

The show's debut featured two other cases: one was explainable, while the other remained a genuine enigma. Stationed at The Variety, a well-established local pub in Roswell, New Mexico, Newton interviewed several self-proclaimed UFO and alien 'experiencers' on camera to more thoroughly examine their stories.

Her co-host, occult scholar and author Mitch Horowitz, praised Kimbler as an 'inspiration' for the local geologist's readiness to ask 'pure questions' and for his proactive approach to investigating these unexplained events.

"Along with Mitch, we both state our opinion, if we think it is a UFO or not,' Newton shared with DailyMail.com. 'But looking at the facts, [sometimes] there's not strong enough data to even make a conclusion."

Newton expressed that Horowitz's focus on the social and cultural aspects of these phenomena nicely complements her own scientific approach. "And also a female perspective, which I think is nice too,' she added, 'when talking to different experiences."

Newton is a partner in tech news start-up The Debrief and part of a civilian research group dedicated to investigating UFOs, now more accurately referred to as 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAP), the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies (SCU). In recent years, the SCU has released a series of data-driven studies linking many military and police-reported UFO accounts to sensitive US nuclear weapons sites.

"I'm always gonna follow the data, you know,' Newton stated, "being a member of the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies. It's really important for me to understand the data,' she said, 'like anybody else that really loves the science behind it."

Newton revealed that she teamed up with the new docuseries' producers to utilize her years of experience interviewing scientists and academics on her podcast for The Debrief, Rebelliously Curious, in investigating more UFO cases. Newton told DailyMail.com, "I think they came to me because I have interviewed people from all different degrees, obviously academics and scientists with my podcast, and I've been around so many different UAP experiences."

Upcoming episodes of 'Alien Encounters' hint at exploring a potential alien abduction experienced by two friends driving in California, an incredible UFO sighting by a woman hiking Machu Picchu in Peru, and more puzzling cases. However, Newton stressed that even the cases she and her team can explain are just as significant as those that could be extraordinary.

"We want to identify UFOs,' Newton stated. "It makes it easier then for us to weed through the other data from UFOs that we can't explain." She added: "To identify something and say, 'this is the ISS' [the International Space Station] or 'this is a Starlink satellite,'' gives us better analytics and tools, better science and technology that other experts can look at."

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