UFO METAL

THIS ISN'T THE SMOKING GUN - THIS IS THE BULLET!!!!

compiled by Dee Finney

updated 11-17-09

This is metal - There is a small space behind the scales.  It is very small, but you must look close to see.  You must literally stand above it and look down on it to see the space between the scales. Otherwise the piece is solid metal.


 

Larry Cekander sent a message to the members of UFO HUNTERS Museum of the Unexplained.

Subject: Bob White

ROBERT LEE (“Bob”) WHITE


     Robert Lee (“Bob”) White died at 6:55 am November 16 from heart-related problems and from injuries suffered in a recent one-car accident. Bob was born March 26, 1931 in Jackson County, MO into a family of eight. When he was twelve, his father died and Bob was considered old enough to work. He has been a musical entertainer most of his life under the stage name of Frank James. Bob has recorded three albums, a number of singles and cassette tapes.  He has appeared in a number of feature films and television shows, including the movie Butterfly with Stacy Keach and Pia Zadora. 

     In 1985, Bob’s life changed forever. While traveling from Denver, CO to Las Vegas, NV, Bob and his companion had a UFO encounter near the Colorado-Utah border where he recovered a metallic “object” he said fell from the UFO.  Since he was an active entertainer, he didn’t tell anyone his UFO story until after his retirement in 1996.

     Bob was referred to the National Institute of Discovery Science (N.I.D.S.) by the UFO organization MUFON’s researcher Dr. John Carpenter after attending a UFO Conference in Eureka Springs, AR.  In 1996, Bob sent a piece of his UFO “object” to N.I.D.S. who hired the lab at New Mexico Tech to conduct a metallurgical analysis.  The scope of this analysis was limited, as explained to Bob by the New Mexico Tech scientist following its completion.

     Cosgrove-Meurer Inc., producers of the popular 1990s television show “Unsolved Mysteries”, flew Bob to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1996 for more testing of Bob’s object. This analysis is controversial because Bob claimed that one of the scientists told Bob his UFO object was extraterrestrial  and that Los Alamos kept a piece of his object.  Differences in the Los Alamos and New Mexico Tech analyses prompted additional scientific testing in the late 1990s.

     Bob White made a sworn statement about the events of his UFO encounter and passed a conclusive polygraph test given by a police polygrapher in 1998.  In 2000, Bob was invited to present his story to the Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in Wyoming. He was made aware of a recently-declassified Top Secret Army document that appeared to show an object identical to Bob’s in a 1940s Counter Intelligence Corps file named “Flying Saucer from Denmark”.  Bob received media recognition from newspapers, paranormal radio shows, and national entertainment news shows.  In September, 2000, Bob and his partner Larry Cekander opened the Museum of the Unexplained in Reeds Spring, MO with Bob as its director.

     The Museum and Bob were featured in nationwide media following Bob’s announcement that he would sell his UFO object for $10,000,000. Bob and the Museum research team continued to perform tests on Bob’s UFO object and found that the object exposed dental x-ray film and was emitting an electro-magnetic field.  An announcement was made in 2003 that isotope abundance ratio tests for the element strontium fell within the range of two established Martian meteorites.

     In 2004, Bob’s story was the season opener for the UK television show “Jane Goldman Investigates”. The show hired a polygraph operator who was a member of the Grand Junction police department to administer another battery of polygraph tests and detected no deception by Bob. Bob and his team of researchers have revisited the area of Bob’s UFO encounter several times and have produced a book and DVD documentary of Bob’s experiences.   The 2005 History Channel program “UFO Hunters” opened with a recreation of Bob’s encounter and a focus on the Army documents and Bob’s visit inside the Los Alamos National Laboratory.  This was the first time the documents and video inside Los Alamos was aired on national television.  Tests performed in 2007 showed Bob’s object emitted low level gamma rays and neutrons.

   Bob’s story was covered in greater depth in a 2008 episode of “UFO Hunters”. Two scientists came forward and described the unique qualities of Bob’s UFO object, and footage of the object’s strange behavior in Laughlin, NV was shown.

    The research team plans to carry on the research into the origin of Bob’s UFO object in Bob’s memory. They promised Bob before he died that they would continue the search for the truth.  Bob is survived by his wife Dixie of the home, and by his son Mark in California.

I have lost my best friend and partner and the world has lost a true searher of the truth. He will be deeply missed by all who new him.

Larry Cekander
VP Museum of the Unexplained
Reeds Spring, Missouri
 

Bob White of Reeds Spring, Mo., placed an ad for a piece of a UFO. His asking price: $10 million. White found the silver object in the early '80s in Colorado after seeing a strange light in the sky.

White said he spent nearly $200,000 to have the two-pound metallic object analyzed by laboratories. He said it is 80 percent aluminum, but it also contains 30 rare earth components and some things that cannot be identified.

White said he has already received some offers, but he would not say for how much.


Posted on Monday, October 06 @ 02:10:37 CDT by Administrator

Bluesman writes "DID BOB WHITE'S UFO OBJECT COME FROM MARS? ORIGIN MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND FOR RECOVERED UFO MATERIAL.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Reeds Spring, MO) Researchers and scientists at the Museum of the Explained are excited about startling new revelations about Bob White's mysterious "object" recovered from a UFO encounter in 1985 near Grand Junction, CO.

Bob's object has been tested at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Tech, and at the Geosciences Research Division of the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Ca.

Dr. Robert Gibbons, former scientist with NASA, and current Executive Director of the Museum, made this statement. "We recently came across scientific data that linked Bob's object with the planet Mars.

Isotope abundance ratio tests were performed on Bob's object in May, 1999 in La Jolla, CA and the numbers are virtually the same as obtained from Martian meteorite samples. The ratio of isotopes of Strontium for the QUE 94201 meteorite found in Antarctica in 1994 was 0.701. The ratio of isotopes of Strontium for Bob's object was 0.712. The ratio of isotopes of Strontium for the Shergotty meteorite found India in 1865 was 0.723. Bob's object is right in the middle of two proven Martian meteorites!"

The Martian meteorite data came from a scientific paper published on the website of the Planetary Science Research Discoveries, an educational website supported by NASA's Office of Space Sciences and by the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium.

Dr. Gibbons is calling for more scientific tests on the Bob White object to prove its origin once and for all.

For further information, call Dr. Robert Gibbons, Executive Director, Museum of the Unexplained, P.O. Box 357, Reeds Spring, MO 65737. Tele: (417) 272-9620.

For Additional Information, Please Contact:

Larry Cekander
Museum Of The Unexplained
http://ufoevidence.conforums.com/index.cgi
1-417-272-9620
larryroyc@yahoo.com
"

 

Man finds tough sell for his "UFO discovery"

06/22/04 - The Seattle Times 

By Steve Rock
Knight Ridder Newspapers

REEDS SPRING, Mo. — Bob White is convinced his story deserves a grand stage, that his most prized possession should be displayed before a national audience.

It should draw tourists from all over the country, he figures, and be a major attraction for people who want to see an artifact that White swears was retrieved from a UFO in 1985.

Instead, White's find is in tiny Reeds Spring in southwestern Missouri, secured in a locked display case at Museum of the Unexplained, a converted video-rental store that, during a recent morning, went more than three hours without a customer.

White can't figure it out.

All he wants to do is find some believers. He wants people to quit snickering and looking at him as if he's crazy. He wants them to listen to his story, to take a hard look at his metallic artifact, to give him a chance.

"This," White said, "is the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life."

The odds are stacked against him. He and his partner at the museum, Robert Gibbons, have been rejected and ridiculed. White estimates he has spent more than $60,000 traveling to conferences, starting the museum, having the artifact tested and retested.

And yet he forges on.

"I'm 73 years old," White said. "I don't have much longer.

"What I'd like to see before I'm gone is the national media get their heads out of their ... " White paused, choosing his words carefully, "out of the sand. I'd like to see the national media and everybody else realize that what I have is real."

Scientists theorize that the "UFO" lights that White said he encountered could have been nothing more than a meteorite, that his artifact could be space debris. Some scientists who have tested the object said there was nothing extraterrestrial about it.

Ask White whether he believed in unidentified flying objects prior to 1985, and he scrunches up his nose.

"Never," he said. "Not a bit. I was the biggest skeptic in the world."

That all changed overnight. Here's how he remembers it:

White and a friend were driving from Denver to Las Vegas on a desolate highway near the Colorado-Utah border. It was 2 or 3 a.m., he said, and White was sleeping in the passenger seat. At one point, his friend woke him up and pointed out a strange light in the distance. White didn't think much of it and went back to sleep.

Then his friend woke him up again. This time, White said, the lights were blinding.

He got out of the car and stared, dumbfounded. The object was about 100 yards in front of him, he said, "and it was huge ... absolutely huge."

In time, he said, the lights bolted toward the sky and connected with a pair of neon, tubular lights — "the mother ship," White guesses now. And just like that, he said, the entire contraption zipped eastward through the Colorado sky and disappeared.

"What I saw," White said, "was not of this Earth."

As the craft flew away, White said, he noticed an orange light falling to the ground. A locator probe? Something that simply broke off? It was red hot when he reached it, he said, but in time it cooled enough to pick up. White shoved the object into the trunk of the car.

The object is about 7-1/2 inches long and shaped like a teardrop. It has a coarse, metallic exterior and weighs less than 2 pounds. It looks a bit like it could be a petrified pine cone and is composed primarily of aluminum.

White has had the item tested several times, hoping for some answers.

The Nevada-based National Institute for Discovery Science in 1996 sent a sample of the object to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

"The metallurgical analysis was pretty mundane," said Colm Kelleher, a scientist at the National Institute for Discovery Science.

"We didn't find any evidence that it was extraterrestrial. Now you can make the argument that we didn't spend $1 million and look at every conceivable option. We didn't cover every base."

Another scientist who tested it at a California laboratory — and who asked that his name and that of the laboratory not be used — said, "It didn't show any extraterrestrial signature."

Sgt. Gary Carpenter, who works at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., said it was not uncommon for NORAD to get calls about strange lights and unidentified objects. Not once, he said, has the object been identified as an alien spacecraft.

"Usually it turns out to be space debris from a satellite that's decaying, or it's in the realm of naturally occurring, celestial lights," he said. "It could be something like a falling star. It could be contrails, the things you would see trailing an aircraft."

White opened the Museum of the Unexplained with visions of turning it into a destination. He wasn't looking to get rich — according to the Missouri secretary of state's office, the museum was registered as a nonprofit organization in August 2000 — but he hoped to spread the word about his experience.

The museum, about 13 miles north of the glitzy Branson strip, might as well be in another world. There are no neon signs pointing the way, no twinkling lights outside the front door. Rather, it's sandwiched between the Humane Society thrift shop and the Sunrise Cafe on Main Street.

It has struggled, unable to tap into the Branson spinoff crowd and secure a niche audience of its own. Only 2,800 people went through the doors that first year, when admission was free, and the museum hasn't been able to replicate those numbers since.

These days, patrons age 12 and older pay $5 to stroll through about 2,000 square feet of space. Exhibits include a keyboard from the movie "Men in Black II" in which the shift key doesn't capitalize or decapitalize but translates from English to an alien language. Other exhibits are little more than newspaper articles or passages from the Internet affixed to the wall with thumb tacks.

The focal point is White's artifact, and he takes no chances with its safety. Motion detectors, closed-circuit TV and window and door alarms protect it at all times. White packs it up in a gun case every day at 5 p.m., and the object never spends the night at the same place two nights in a row. You can never be too sure, he figures, even in a town with just 465 residents.

"I'm happy for them that they're having a good time, but I guess I'm just not into that kind of thing," said Kacee Cashman, the Reeds Spring city clerk since 1998. "I really think they've been accepted, but everybody's kind of taking it with a grain of salt."

Said White, "I don't know what I have to do to prove this is the truth. You can't make this stuff up."


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FROM: http://www.chadlewis.com/photo_of_the_week_archive/bob_whites_ufo_artifact.html

 

 

OPEN LETTER TO "NIDS"
National Institute for Discovery Science
FROM BOB WHITE.

Why is it so important for NIDS to debunk what is the smoking gun?

What is their agenda? Why are they so eager to debunk me on and inaccurate analasis?

If they are not government funded debunkers shouldn't they want the truth?

First person i dealt with at NIDS was Mr. Pete McDuff who tried to discourage me.

So he was replaced by Col. John Alexander (retired) who also tried to discourage me but failed.

Now Col. Alexander is replaced by Dr. Colm Kelleher who is trying to discourage me but will also fail.

No one can discourage the truth.

The sad part of all of this is i was going to ask Mr Bigelow to take the object and perform the necessary tests to determine where the object came from since i know Mr. Bigelow has the finances to do this.

However that is now out of the question since NIDS has already decided the object and I are a fraud.

Incidentally I don't want thousands of dollars for the object, try millions.

Bob White July 19, 2004

"I believe Bob White has the real hard evidence of extraterrestrial visitation," says Franklin Carter, president of the institute for UFO research.
Scientist thinks some other academics who have examined the object might have deliberately tried to cover up the truth about it's alien origins.

The Los Alamos report concluded the object was not a meteor but an unknown object of unknown origin.

NIDS Analysis Of Bob White Metal Piece Rense.com.  NIDS Analysis Of Bob White Metal Piece By Colm Kelleher NIDS 6-12-04. Analysis of Metal Sample Mr. White, findings are inconsistant with the facts of the case and the results by NIDS on tests done in New Mexico Tech. www.rense.com/general53/piece.htm this was posted on Jeff Rense  on 6-12-04..

The actual test Done by NIDS on the Bob White metal were done Aug 8, 1996. Hardly the latest testing done by labs all over the country..

and far from correct in their findings .. in fact not even close to their supposed close match with 360 alloy casting.

There are 9 elements in 360 ... and one is tin .. No tin in the White metal, but there are 22 elements in it found by NIDS 14 more than a 360 alloy.

NIDS FINDS NOTHING EXTRODINARY IN BOB WHITE OBJECT ACCORDING TO DR. COLM KELLEHER
This quote from the http://www.ufowatchdog.com/whitemetal.html

Well hello Mr Kelleher..

You seem to be quite the authority on the Bob White metal recovered in 1985.

You describe this test that NIDS did as the definitive answer to the question as to the origin of this metal from your quote..

Your quote sir ."Bob White
http://www.hardevidence.com has tried to sell his metal for thousands of dollars claiming it to be extraterrestrial.

This statement is even wrong. He is asking much more than that.

With this latest analysis from NIDS, it is clear there is nothing extraordinary about the metal."

Why don't you say this is the only test done by NIDS...

Also it was the first one done on the metal..

It was also a very basic elemental done at NEW MEXICO TECH for NIDS

Being the PRESTIGIOUS group that you claim to be???

"NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DISCOVERY SCIENCE"

I would think, knowing full well the circumstances surrounding the recovery of this object you would have done the proper tests on it to start with...

The only test that is defining for extraterrestrial origin "ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE RATIO TESTS"..

Now if YOU where any good at what you do you new this when you sent this off for your double blinded ANALYSIS.

"A VERY BASIC TEST!"

Your own scientist told Bob White that these where not the right tests to do for the circumstances surrounding this metal after he had found out the entire story.

Better put your watch dog on a leash Dr Kelleher when you go sniffing up this story..

Seems to have put that nose in the wrong place like dogs do..

7 more tests have been done since NIDS had the first one done.. Your own results are wrong on your TESTS.

Elements where missed by your basic testing that have been identified by other labs since the first one done by your group.

AND finally Your numbers don't add up in what was found by your own scientists...A small percentage is missing.

Why is that Mr Kelleher?? What did you find that your hiding to??

YOU Mr Kelleher are not qualified to even comment on this as you didn't do the testing to start with.

DR. Paul Fuierer was the scientist who did the testing and he did a fine job for a basic test.

LOOK IN THAT CRACKER JACK BOX FOR THAT "PHD" Mr. Kelleher

PHD------------> "PILED HIGHER DEEPER"

Your dog is lost and so are you..

PS: Bob White has passed two conclusive polygraphs given by police officers on how he recovered this metal and what he saw. I wonder if you can..??

A bit more about NIDS research and their cracker jack team of experts....and their findings on various objects sent to them for testing..

Several years ago a piece of metal was identified by NIDS as a part from a high tech Boeing cryogen/refrigeration system... pretty impressive EXCEPT that is wrong.

QUOTE from letter received by owner of that metal.

The object was taken to Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas and to other colleagues of mine who are experts in advanced technology at NASA. Both confirmed the Boeing description above as correct. They added that many cryogenic and cooling/refrigeration systems utilize coolant manifolds that are of similar design as your father’s object but with some variations here and there to account for the different ways that hoses attach to the manifold on different systems.

Eric W Davis, Ph.D., FBIS Aerospace Physics and Astrophysics Div. NIDS”

LETS SEE can we all say "WRONG!!!!!!!"

If you look at the site for Agribusiness Supply Company ( http://www.agribusinesssupply.com ) you will see certain products for cow milking machines. Yes, cow milking machines.

That's what all these so called EXPERTS identified as Boeing cooling equipment.


That's who I want testing my UFO metal...It will end up a book end or part of a milk shake machine..

more on NIDS here...and what they didnt do and cant match as far as what they say.

UFO'S EVIDENCE? KECKSBURG, PENN.

On December 9, 1965, DID and object land near Kecksburg, Penn. Did and alien craft crash in Roswell?? Did Lonnie Zamora see a craft
from another world in Soccoro New Mexico in 1964?? We dont know for sure...

What we do know is in 1985 and object landed in Colorado and the army didnt get that one..

Bob White recovered that object and it didn't come from this planet..

The story and the tests are all here to view.

The elements are listed that have been found so far though a small .. percentage still goes unidentified.

This metal matches nothing being manufactured on this planet now or in 1985 when Bob White recovered it from his UFO encounter.

The list of elements are here .. See for yourself .. Find a match .. if you can.. who makes it .. and for what purpose it is used..

That's simple for all the skeptics or nay sayers .. just show us and the world a match to this metal.

We have all the information right here for all to see.

The evidence has been presented...YOU DECIDE



From the President of the Museum of the Unexplained

Its with great sorrow I accept the resignation of our executive director, Dr. Robert Gibbons. Dr. Gibbons was executive director for approximately 2 years. During that time he has contributed greatly to the success of the museum.

Not only have we lost a good man, but I feel I have lost a good friend. I wish to express my most heartfelt thanks to Dr. Gibbons for a job well done.

I know he will be a great asset to any organization. Dr. Robert H. Gibbons will be missed.

Sincerely

Bob White



From the Vice President of the Museum of the Unexplained

We here at the Museum of the Unexplained would like to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Gilbert Jordan for all the information and exhibits that where on loan to us here in Reeds Spring.

However, Dr. Jordan was not on the board of directors, nor was he ever considered as a potential member.

If Dr. Jordan thinks he was defamed in anyway he should look in another direction.

We were advised that all of his credentials could not be verified and we agreed that since Bob White insists on the whole truth, if it cant be verified it must be dismissed.

It was the decision of Bob White, Larry Cekander, John Huey, and Robert Gibbons to distance ourselves from Dr. Jordan. On advice of some of our friends, Stanton Friedman, Peter Davenport, and John Greenewald Jr to name just a few. This was the appropriate action on our part given the circumstances.

We regret any misunderstanding this decision may have caused Dr. Jordan and we wish him well in all his future endeavors.

To Dr. Gibbons I want to add my regrets in seeing you leave the Museum staff.

You have been an asset to the Museum.

Your expertise and direction has helped to get us to where we are today.

A sincere thank you for all your hard work...

MAY YOU have a HOOTERS GOOD TIME Robert.
I don't have a doubt that you will.

Larry Cekander

 

"MUSEUM OF THE UNEXPLAINED"
RESEARCH-INVESTIGATION-EDUCATION

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD TESTS ON RECOVERED METAL FROM UFO. THE BOB WHITE OBJECT

"POSITIVE"!!!!!

On March 7, 2004, electromagnetic field tests were performed on the Bob White object using a German Multidetektor II Profi EMF meter operated by Rob Simone and Dr. Robert H. Gibbons. Videotaping the tests was Larry R. Cekander, Vice President of the Museum of the Unexplained.

Because of the sensitivity of the meter, the tests were performed on open ground between Highway 13 and the Reeds Spring High School to avoid interference with electrical wires and other sources of stray EMFs.

The meter was set to read magnetic fields and was passed around the object, which was resting on an empty cardboard box to keep it from touching the ground. Special attention was made to the ends of the object. No magnetic fields were observed.

The meter was set to read electrical fields using the HP filter (500-100,000 Hz). Different scales were used, and the remainder of the tests were performed using the X1 scale (direct reading).

The maximum transient reading was 0.9 V/m from the bulge's on the big end of the object. A steady reading of 0.5-0.6 V/m was obtained down the seam of the object, and there was repeatability in these readings.

Further tests will be performed under more controlled conditions, including keeping the object and meter stationary relative to each other and seeing if the object pulse's.

For information booking Bob White or the
Mobile Museum Bus for your
UFO event please contact us at one of these numbers.

1-417-272-9620
1-417-250-0543
1-417-739-2471

 
Rense.com

NIDS Analysis Of Bob White Metal Piece
By Colm Kelleher
NIDS
6-12-4
 
FROM; http://www.rense.com/general53/piece.htm
 
Analysis of Metal Sample
 
Mr. White, a Missouri resident, provided the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) a piece of material that he purportedly obtained under unusual circumstances.
 
Since the material had not been previously tested, NIDS decided to have a battery of tests conducted. The material was delivered to New Mexico Tech, and the tests were conducted under the direction of Dr. Paul Fuierer, an Assistant Professor in the Materials Engineering Department. On August 23, 1996, Dr. Fuierer submitted his analysis, Sample Analysis Report: Sample #2.
 
The analysis were double blinded. The following is the entire text of the report. No conclusions are made by NIDS.
 
Sample Description
 
Sample #2 in its as-received condition can be described as a finger-shaped piece of metal approximately 30 mm long, 7 mm thick, 18 mm wide at its larger end and 10 mm wide at the smaller end. The interior of the specimen is silver-white in color, and highly reflecting. The outside surface has a tarnished, darker gray appearance with overlapping scale-like features. The sample mass was 5.11524 g.
 
Chemical Analysis
 
A semi-quantitative elemental analysis was obtained using a Philips 2400 X-ray Fluorescence (wavelength dispersive) Spectrometer. A scan of the entire bulk sample identified as major constituents: 85 wt % A1 and 9 wt % Si, and minor constituents: 2 wt% Fe, 0.9 wt% Ca, 0.7 wt% S, 0.6 wt% C1, and 0.6 wt% Na along with several other elements (see Table I). This was in agreement with the qualitative analysis done via Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) during the electron microscopy investigation (next section), which detected aluminum, silicon, and iron. In terms of its chemical composition, sample #2 appears to be similar to what is known as a "360 aluminum casting alloy".
 
Phase Identification
 
An X-ray diffraction scan was performed on a slice of the sample with an area of about 1 cm^2. The diffraction pattern is shown in Fig. 1. A13.21Si0.47 is seen to be an excellent match. This composition calculates to 86.8 wt% A1 and 13.2 wt% Si, very close to that of sample #2. The four largest peaks are attributed to the aluminum metal, while the three small peaks (d = 3.1349, d = 1.9221, and d = 1.6375) are due to the presence of silicon. The aluminum peaks are shifted slightly to lower angles and larger d-spacings, as a result of the incorporation of a small amount of other larger metallic impurities into the lattice. The sample can therefore be described as a two-phase mixture of an aluminum solid solution as the majority phase, and silicon as a minor phase. This is in agreement with the equilibrium phase diagram for the Al-Si binary system, shown in Fig. 2. The composition of sample #2 is close to the eutectic composition, which is the composition have the lowest melting point (12.6 % Si according to the published phase diagram).
 
Microstructural Analysis
 
Scanning Electron Micropcopy (SEM)
 
The same slice of sample used for XRD was prepared by grinding and polishing to a mirror finish, followed by etching with 0.5% HF acid for 40 sec. Examination under the electron microscope revealed the microstructure to be quite uniform throughout the sample. Fig. 3 shows low and high magnification shots of the prepared surface. The sample contained a large amount of porosity (darker areas are pits and voids). Also apparent are the small particles (tenths of microns in size) surrounded by the continuous matrix material. EDS revealed the small, light particles to be silicon rich, while the darker gray matrix is Al-rich, as expected (see Fig. 4).
 
Optical Microscopy
 
Two samples were cut for metallographic examination; one sliced perpendicular to the length of the sample, and one parallel. These sections were also ground, polished and etched with 0.5% HF. Fig. 5 shows a couple of low mag shots of the parallel sample. The high porosity is very apparent, along with the very fine microstructure. Flow lines are also apparent in these two shots. The coarse ones are easy to see, outlined by the porosity. A more subtle flow line can be seen in the 250X shot upon close examination, defined only by a slight difference in the density of the darker particles on either side. These kinds of flow lines are commonly observed in poor sand or die castings. These are caused by a failure of molten streams of metal to merge due to poor filling of a mold, incorrect die lubrication or incorrect injection pressures.
 
Only under 1000X magnification can one start to pick out individual black particles (Fig. 6). These tiny black particles are the same Si particles seen under the SEM as light particles. Unfortunately, sub-micron sized features approach the theoretical limit of resolution for a light microscope, and therefore do not reveal themselves very clearly. However, they seem to have grouped together in certain locations to form longer bands, either straight or curved. These are probably dislocations (highly strained defects in the Al lattice) where precipitation of a second phase often occurs.
 
The fine microstructure observed in sample #2 is exactly what one might expect from a near eutectic composition of the Al and Si with a significant amount of impurities. Since the eutectic is rich in aluminum, one would predict an Al-rich solid solution matrix with isolated particles of silicon.....just what we have. The fact that the Si particles are spheroidized (essentially equiaxed spherical particles) as opposed to the classic eutectic lamellar shape (elongated plates or needles) can be explained by the significant quantity of impurities like Na, Mg, etc. These are regarded as modifiers in metal alloy technology, which alter surface energies and affect the morphology of the second phase silicon.
 
Putting all of the above microstructural observations together, one can surmise that the metal was being deformed (pushed or blown) as it cooled from the molten state through the eutectic temperature (~ 577 degrees C) and solidified. It probably cooled fairly rapidly since the Si particles are rather small. Also the alloy may have been undercooled such that excess Si was left in solid solution, and then later precipitated out at the dislocations during either normal or artificial aging.
 
Physical Properties
 
Density
 
Bulk density of the sample was measured based on the Archimedes Principle by immersion in toluene. The mass, while immersed, increased over a long period of time, finally stabilizing after 3 hours, indicative of a highly porous sample. The density of sample #2 was calculated to be 2.47 g/cm^3. This is 91% of that of the theoretical density of pure A1 (2.71 g/cm^3). This is not surprising, considering the presence of undisolved silicon (2.33 g/cm^3) and significant amount of void space observed under the microscope.
 
Hardness
 
The same samples (both perpendicular and parallel cuts) used for optical microscopy were used to measure hardness. A Vickers Hardness number was obtained from a Leco Tester using a diamond tip micro-indenter. Five indentations were made for each sample. The size of the resulting indentations were measured under the light microscope, and averaged. This average value, along with the known applied load were used to come up with the Vicker's Hardness number. For the perpendicular cut, VH = 60. For the parallel cut, VH = 62. The difference is probably within experimental error. These values are slightly higher than pure aluminum, and typical for aluminum alloys.
 
Stiffness
 
An attempt was made to prepare a specimen for measuring the strength and stiffness (elastic modulus) of sample #2 using an Instron machine, however; the sample proved to be to small.
 
Electrical Properties
 
A four-point probe must be used for accurate measurement for highly conducting materials like metals. For this, a rectangular slab sample was cut and polished to dimensions: length = 11.16 mm, width = 3.36 mm, and thickness = 0.38 mm. A digital multimeter was used to measure the current (provided by a constant current source) through the length of the sample, while an electrometer was used to measure the voltage drop (to the nearest 0.00001 V) across a length of the slab. The resistivity of sample #2 was measured to be 2.90 x 10^-5 Ohm-cm. This is about an order of magnitude higher than that of pure aluminum (3 x 10^-6 Ohm-cm) and five times higher than that of 360 Al alloy (6x10^-6 Ohm-cm). This is completely reasonable, considering the large number of Si particles, dislocation lines, and amount of porosity.
 
Summary and Conclusions
 
Results from the analysis of sample #2 are quite conclusive. The specimen is an aluminum-silicon alloy, with a substantial amount of variety of impurities, including iron, calcium, sulfur, chlorine, sodium, magnesium and others. The composition is one that could be used as an aluminum casting alloy. The closest commercial material has the trade name "360 alloy" [Lyman, 1961]. This is a die casting alloy used in applications where excellent castability and resistance to corrosion are required. It is used for miscellaneous thin-walled and intricate castings. Since this type of alloy is very close to the eutectic (lowest melting) composition, it has excellent fluidity at relatively low temperatures.
 
The microstructure of the sample is one to be expected from the composition: second phase eutectic silicon particles in a matrix of aluminum solid solution. However, due to a few undesirable structural characteristics, it would be regarded as a poorly cast aluminum alloy when compared with published micrographs of commercial materials [Lyman, 1972]. The large amount of porosity would certainly lead to a decreased strength and decreased corrosion resistance. The presence of porosity together with the apparent flow lines suggests that uncontrolled cooling took place. The significant amount of impurities like sodium accounts for the fineness and rounded nature of the silicon particles, rather than the larger, longer, more angular particules usually observed. Dislocations (planes of slip caused by plastic deformation) appear to be decorated by silicon particles. In many cases, these dislocations follow the flow lines. This suggests some forced flow during solidification of the melt (in the range of temperatures 600 degrees C to 575 degrees C).
 
There are no anomalies in the results of this analysis. The detected phases are accounted for, and the microstructure lends itself to standard metallurgical interpretation. The physical properties that were measured (density, hardness, and electrical resistivity) all fall within the expected range.
 
References
 
Lyman, T. (editor), "Properties and Selection of Metals", Vol. 1 in Metals Handbook, American Society for Metals (1961).
 
Lyman, T. (editor), "Atlas of Microstructures of Industrial Alloys", Vol. 7 in Metals Handbook, American Society for Metals (1972).
 
Lyman, T. (editor), "Metallography, Structures and Phase Diagrams", Vol. 8 in Metals Handbook, American Society for Metals (1973).
 
Mondolfo, L.R., Aluminum Alloys: Structure and Properties, Butterworth Inc. (1976).

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