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Published Sunday, July 31, 2005
Ozarks man to tour with his 'space doo-doo'
Bob White still is "out there" regarding visitors from other planets. And
I mean that in a good way.
Since I wrote about the Branson West resident seven years ago, White, 74,
has attracted attention around this planet with an odd chunk of metal he
says came from a brilliantly glowing, astonishingly fast "unidentified
flying object."
White displayed the carrot-shaped curiosity he jokingly calls "space
doo-doo" in a storefront museum in Reeds Spring from 2000 to 2004.
Nowadays he takes it on tour in a 42-foot-long former city bus.
White has submitted the strange souvenir for analysis at eight
laboratories, and he's passed two lie-detector tests. He has been
interviewed on several radio programs, and last year was featured on the
British TV show "Jane Goldman Investigates."
Most recently, White caught the attention of American cable TV's History
Channel, which will focus on White and his mysterious metallic glob in a
segment of its "UFO Files" series scheduled to show at 7 p.m. Monday.
When the History Channel crew arrived at his Stone County home two months
ago, "my neighbors saw the three vans and the cameras, and they thought
I'd won a million dollars from that (Publishers) Clearing House thing,"
White recalls with a chuckle.
White's UFO encounter occurred one night in the early 1980s, when he still
was on the road as a musician. He and a friend were driving near Grand
Junction, Colo., when they saw a glowing orb alongside a remote highway.
White says that when he tried to approach the bizarre light, it zoomed
skyward and melded with a larger UFO, then disappeared - but not before
something fell off and plummeted in a fireball.
White says he retrieved the blob of metal but kept it to himself for a
dozen years because he "didn't want to be ridiculed as some 'flying saucer
nut.'"
Eventually, however, he decided to go public with what he feels is a piece
of "hard evidence" that proves UFOs aren't all mere optical illusions or
the product of hucksters.
In his first-ever interview in 1998, White told me he hoped that if enough
people became aware of his find, scientific experts and government
agencies would be forced to seriously investigate UFOs - or reveal secrets
already known about alien spacecraft.
That hasn't happened. But White isn't discouraged. This week's History
Channel show is a sign of public interest, he believes. And he recently
learned that his may not be the only known example of "hard evidence."
"They found an object that looks just like mine in Denmark back in the
1940s," White says. "We got a government report that had been 'classified'
for years. On the cover are the words 'Recovered from flying saucer in
Denmark.' Inside are photos of the thing - and it looks exactly like
mine."
That would be remarkable because the metal object that White usually keeps
locked in a local bank vault is extraordinary in its appearance.
The conical curiosity started out about 10 inches long, but has lost a
half-inch due to whittling for lab samples. It is almost three inches in
diameter at the large end, and tapers to about a half-inch on the small
end. It weighs 1.5 pounds.
The most unusual aspect of the object to the casual observer is its
surface texture. It appears almost organic, like petrified tree bark or
neatly layered bird feathers.
Scientific observers find unusual properties as well, according to White.
Lab analyses have revealed the object to be of uncommon composition. White
says he is particularly intrigued by test results showing his object has
"strontium isotope abundance ratios" that match properties of meteorites
recovered in India and Antarctica.
White details all this and more in a new 125-page book titled "UFO Hard
Evidence," available from the publisher (www.galdepress.com) or White's
Web site (www.ufohardevidence.com).
Accompanied by neighbor Larry Cekander, White plans to head westward soon
for a nine-month tour in the mobile museum to show off his "space
doo-doo." He figures the History Channel exposure will bring invitations
to park the bus in prominent spots likely to attract crowds.
"I'm not trying to get rich off this thing," White insists. He wants
admission to the mobile museum to be free, and is counting on sales of the
book and T-shirts to keep the bus rolling.
"Honest and truly," White emphasizes, "all I'm trying to do is encourage
people who believe they've actually seen UFOs to come forward. A lot of
them are reluctant because the government and the military and some
so-called experts have declared them to be nuts.
"Well, I saw a UFO, and I know I'm not a nut because a piece of it came
off and I have it. I don't know for sure exactly what it is, but I do know
it's real. You can see it; you can touch it.
"So if enough people demand that some legitimate authority determine the
origin of this object, and if it's proven to be extraterrestrial, then I
predict people will be coming out of the woodwork telling about UFOs
they've seen but been afraid to talk about.
"Nobody wants to be alone in claiming they've seen a UFO. I've been there,
done that, and it's no fun," White says.
"But maybe now we have the key to prove, once and for all, that UFOs or
flying saucers or whatever you want to call them really are out there."
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| Title: Re: Ozarks Man To Tour With His "Space Doo-Doo' |
03 Aug 2005 04:30:37 PM |
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Doc wrote:
Published Sunday, July 31, 2005
Ozarks man to tour with his 'space doo-doo'
Bob White still is "out there" regarding visitors from other planets.
And I mean that in a good way.
Since I wrote about the Branson West resident seven years ago, White,
74, has attracted attention around this planet with an odd chunk of
metal he says came from a brilliantly glowing, astonishingly fast
"unidentified flying object."
White displayed the carrot-shaped curiosity he jokingly calls "space
doo-doo" in a storefront museum in Reeds Spring from 2000 to 2004.
Nowadays he takes it on tour in a 42-foot-long former city bus.
White has submitted the strange souvenir for analysis at eight
laboratories, and he's passed two lie-detector tests. He has been
interviewed on several radio programs, and last year was featured on the
British TV show "Jane Goldman Investigates."
Most recently, White caught the attention of American cable TV's History
Channel, which will focus on White and his mysterious metallic glob in a
segment of its "UFO Files" series scheduled to show at 7 p.m. Monday.
When the History Channel crew arrived at his Stone County home two
months ago, "my neighbors saw the three vans and the cameras, and they
thought I'd won a million dollars from that (Publishers) Clearing House
thing," White recalls with a chuckle.
White's UFO encounter occurred one night in the early 1980s, when he
still was on the road as a musician. He and a friend were driving near
Grand Junction, Colo., when they saw a glowing orb alongside a remote
highway.
White says that when he tried to approach the bizarre light, it zoomed
skyward and melded with a larger UFO, then disappeared - but not before
something fell off and plummeted in a fireball.
White says he retrieved the blob of metal but kept it to himself for a
dozen years because he "didn't want to be ridiculed as some 'flying
saucer nut.'"
Well, since he isn't dead, I guess it wasn't radioactive or some other
highly toxic substance, huh?
Woods
(Wondering if this guy has ever seen what happens on sci fi movies when
you pick up alien stuff ..... ;-)
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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| Title: Re: Ozarks Man To Tour With His "Space Doo-Doo' |
04 Aug 2005 07:53:47 PM |
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Hey sure - why not!
I'll help fund his road tour.....put me down for 3 medium and 1 large
SPACE DOO DOO T-Shirts! :)
SuZanne
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