Spoilers: its not.
According to the report, the speculated piece of a UFO aircraft is just a normal magnesium compound.
Oak Ridge agreed to look at the material after To The Stars consented to have it studied.
Pentagon official poses with debris from Roswell UFO site on July 8, 1947.© Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Unsurprisingly, records of failed [magnesium] alloy designs are scant.
Neither AARO nor ORNL could verify the specimens historical origin.
Unverifiable, conflicting personal accounts complicate its undocumented chain of custody.
The Roswell crash is a foundational myth among UFO fans and conspiracy theorists.
The short version is that something crashed in the deserts outside of Roswell, New Mexico.
The Air Force recovered pieces of it and said it was a weather balloon.
But others have long believed it was an alien spacecraft.
That incident kicked off decades of panic and interest in strange lights in the sky.
That interest picked up again in recent years after a number of high-profile sightings byU.S.
Navy pilotsand the publication ofdeclassified videos of strange aerial phenomena.
U.S. legislators tasked the Pentagon with figuring out why so many people reported seeing strange lights in the sky.
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