Stanford’s Dr. Garry Nolan presented his research on alleged UFO debris at the Sol Foundation Symposium last November.
Feb 13, 2024
After paying tribute to whistleblower David Grusch, who co-founded the Sol Foundation, Garry Nolan began his speech by declaring:
“Inevitably we’re going to come across something out there that is alien. I mean, let’s just be serious about it, or at least life, let’s say. But how do we engage it, and how do we begin?
We don’t understand the rules, frankly, of how it all goes together.”
He then referred to the work of Dr. Kevin Knuth, who studies the electromagnetic signatures of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), and Dr. Avi Loeb, who organized a campaign to recover suspected debris from the Pacific seabed, before adding:
“Obviously, somebody has an understanding of physics that we don’t, but that means that they’re putting things together in ways that we don’t understand how they’re doing it.”
He went on to explain that some materials seem to have come from UFOs, based on the context in which they were recovered. By cross-referencing the analysis of alleged debris recovered by Jacques Vallée, a functional analysis of data collected during sightings, and calling on experts assembled in an interdisciplinary team, he believes he can develop a signature of what would be an object originating from a UFO.
The first piece of debris recovered, from Council Bluff, Iowa, is a puddle of molten metal, recovered shortly after a sighting by numerous witnesses of a reddish sphere between 100 and 200 meters above ground level. Using Multiplex Ion Beam Imaging, Nolan and his co-authors published their first paper on this debris in Progress in Aerospace Science. After analysis, the sample revealed a heterogeneous mixture of metals.
“So you have these different ratios, which means that before it was dumped out, it was incompletely mixed. So what does that mean? How and why would you do that? I mean, were you offloading something that was problematic?
It’s clearly the result of an industrial process. It’s not the machine, maybe it’s exhaust, who knows? We don’t know. It had incomplete mixing of components.
Well, it’s not industrial steel.
The Material shows no sign of technology. The material is clearly the result of an industrial process, and it was incompletely mixed. Okay, so why?
I don’t know the answers.”
Dr. Garry Nolan went on to discuss the case of Ubatuba, where alleged UFO debris fell after disintegrating in midair. Previous analyses had shown that the magnesium was purer than the industrial standard. Yet, according to Nolan, his two debris samples had nothing to do with one another:
“I remember sitting there when they printed out the data, and I was like, ‘I don’t understand this’.
So one of the claimed samples has pretty much exactly the natural thing. We had two shards of each. The other one was way off.”
He then explained that using isotopes can have some benefits that have been recently discovered.
“Even though we looked at the magnesium – because that instrument that I just showed you can see down to the parts per million – we were looking at that level. When I looked at this, it was almost entirely pure silicon.
No sign of technology, but certainly signs of an industrial process.”
He added:
“I have another sample of something from Australia. There are a couple of other events that actually are dropping molten objects. So there’s a reason to offload something. Again, I’m speculating. There’s a reason to offload something, but every time they do it, it ends up being slightly different.”
He then announced that Jacques Vallée gave him debris allegedly coming from one of the most famous cases in history, that of Socorro, where policeman Lonnie Zamora had seen beings enter an egg-shaped craft before it took off.
“Aluminum, zinc, mostly, and some contaminants. But the aluminum and the zinc are in different places.
If I look in the aluminum on the top, again, it’s incredibly pure. It has like a single oxygen molecule amidst a million. I don’t know who does that. And why would you do it? It’s attached to a zinc thing underneath, which has some aluminum in it. But look at how it’s non-uniformly distributed. There’s like a cluster of it over there. Is that because they have a junky recipe? They didn’t mix it right?
But why? I don’t know. Again, this is a clear sign of engineering.”
Dr. Garry Nolan went on to explain that he is launching a new initiative, Stardust Repository, with the aim of developing standards for analyzing debris and sharing the task of materials analysis. However, he made it clear several times that he wants to make the data from this research public, after a one-year delay to allow the teams to work on publishing their findings.
One might follow Dr. Nolan’s lecture and wonder whether humanity isn’t in a similar situation to that described in the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic, brought to life by the legendary film director Andrei Tarkovsky. In this story, mankind is confronted with the contamination of an area where the laws of nature seem to have been altered, but which is rich in technological debris at the limit of human understanding. These debris are left there, abandoned, like crumbs after the picnic of an incredibly advanced species… Are UAP debris mere leftovers? Or breadcrumbs intentionally left there, for us to follow?
Translated from French by Baptiste Friscourt
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