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The above is highlighted from my post #324.Came across something else which is perhaps insightful.
It' from 'Unsolved Mysteries' and features some early interviews, notaby with Marcel and Haut.
Just to note, when Marcel recalls they could 'not put a dent in the material with a sledgehammer', elsewhere Marcel clarifies how that allegedly occured at the base, after he had returned with material collected.
It wa not, as depicted in the documentary, something which took place at the debris site and, of course, neither was there ever a large piece of actual metal, as they portray.
What I didn't realise at that time and seems to generally have 'slipped under the radar' somewhat, is that in Friedman's 'Crash at Corona' book, according to his interviews with Marcel, this is entirely circumstantial evidence and Marcel had no participation in it whatsoever:
"A lot of it had a lot of little mernbers [I beams] with symbols that we had to call them hieroglyphics because I could not interpret them, they could not be read; they were just symbols, something that meant something and they were not all the same. The members that this was painted on - by the way, those symbols were pink and purple ... uh ... lavender was actually what it was.
And ... uh ... so these members could not be broken, could not be burned ... I even tried to burn that. It would not burn. The same with the parchment we had.But something that is more astounding is that the piece of metal that we brought back was so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarette paper. I didn't pay too much attention to that at first, until one of the GIs came to me and said, "You know the metal that was in there? I tried to bend that stuff and it won't bend. I even tried it with a sledge hammer. You can't make a dent on it."
I didn't go back to look at it, myself, again, because we were busy in the office and I had quite a bit of work to do. I am quite sure that this young fellow would not have lied to me about that, because he was a very truthful, very honest guy, so I accepted his word for that. So, beyond that, I didn't actually see him hit the matter with a sledge hammer, but he said, "It's definite that it cannot be bent and it's so light that it doesn't weigh anything."