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The UFO Partisan: Roswell, D-Day And The Titanium Industry

I already did it four years ago.

I'm not so sure about that. "The Bureau of Aeronautics' interest and activity in this field date back about two years." Nathan Promisel, of the Materials Branch of the Navy Department's Bureau of Aeronautics, December 1948.

The Kroll process? No, William Kroll came up with that in the 30s but no one in industry wanted to buy. Ultimately, the US government provided price supports to get industry to do the production work, DuPont subsidiary Rem-Cru, because of the expense involved and lack of a market save the...

They're still looking for a cheaper and faster way to extract titanium from the ore, but it's essentially still the Kroll process.

I don't disagree with that. It's sort of a giant if-then statement but I think it's been worth the closer look.

Just about every aspect of the UFO phenomenon is a stretch. There are the rare cases when witness accounts are corroborated by radar but those are exceptional cases. At the end of the day, reverse engineering is a part of the UFO subject matter and to not take a closer look at metallurgy has...

You're talking about commercial aircraft too. 787s don't need to do Mach 3.

Titanium is used as part of those composites. "The importance of titanium in the aerospace industry cannot be overstated. According to the latest figures from the U.S. Geological Survey, in 2012, some 72 percent of titanium metal consumed in the U.S. was used in aerospace applications . . . ...

How do you know the Nazis were developing titanium? There's nothing in the record to indicate that. It was no secret then, as they were using them, or now that the Nazis were well ahead of anyone in two areas, rocket missile tech and jet engines. They had the V-1 and V-2 and a jet fighter before...

You have just about everything wrong here. What Kroll patented was a process for extracting titanium from its' ore. It's still pretty well used to this day with some refinements. It was his patent . . . at first. He was from the Netherlands and came to the States in the late 30s to try to sell...

I don't know it either. I think I make that pretty clear in the article. I do think it's very, very strange and at least possible a recovered ET spaceship was the tipping point to get the industry going. "I am jest ahsking da qvestions." Erich von Daniken

There are enough facts in the story that even if you don't like my interpretation of them you'll still come away knowing more than you did before you read it.

We don't know they were perfected but we do know that there was no titanium industry before Roswell and there was no nitinol until the early 60s. To consider any possible ET reverse engineering and not even consider metallurgy is just plain myopic. In the article I consider the other...

You don't make progress without taking the occasional leap.

With the commercial titanium industry, it wasn't keep secret, not at all. What is hazy is the why it was started, who gave the go ahead and where did the money come from. As a comparison, we know the Manhattan Project was kept secret up until the point atomic weapons were used. At that point you...

You can call me Frank. My angle and Tony's angle are a little different. Tony has focused on nitinol which is, of course, a titanium based alloy. My focus has been on the founding of the entire titanium industry itself in December 1948. Now I have absolutely gotten a lot of ideas, including that...

I said months ago I'd do it. I heard Ray within the last few weeks do an interview and it seems he's calmed down and was very solid and credible and recounted the facts of the case pretty accurately. I will do the same.

I'll mention your offer next time we exchange emails. You've got mine directly.

Ha! He doesn't do podcast interviews. What part of that don't you get?