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Is This a Hoax?
A fisherman saw an object that released something or it exploded. It was this relative pure magnesium with obviously something else in it because magnesium burns. And so then we had two pieces that came from two different chains of custody, both claimed to be from the same object. We took small fragments of each of them and put them in an instrument called a secondary ion mass spec. The amount that I had would have cost several tens of thousands of dollars to make.