Meteorite or UFO?

5) Well, that is one heavy thick floor if it is!

The impact of the meteorite caused rock to melt and flow. What to say what you were looking at was not different materials that melted together during the impact and flowed out into a slab. If kept molten for long enough same substances would separate out. The different substances cooling and solidifying at different rates would leave appearance of growth rings.

Interesting. Any photos you could supply?

I will get a photo and post it.

Here is am interesting piece www.namibweb.com/hoba.htm .

In order to answer your question, please answer the following questionnaire:

1. Have you ever been visited by sinister Asian-looking men wearing black coats, black neckties, black sunglasses, black fedoras, shiny black shoes, and white shirts and socks, and who drive shiny black Cadillacs?
2. When you pick up the phone, do you hear inexplicable clicking noises in the background?
3. Do you have dreams of alien abduction?
4. Is your blood type Rh-negative?
5. At any time, do you feel a need to wear tin-foil hats, drink unfluoridated water and listen to Elvis Presley?
6. Do unmarked black helicopters fly over your home late at night?
7. Do you have inexplicable scars with tiny, metallic-feeling objects or implants in them?
8. Have you ever been approached by a tall and handsome FBI agent and his short, pretty, reddish-blonde partner for your cooperation in an ongoing investigation?
9. Has any self-proclaimed "investigative reporter" ever approached you and urged you to tell the world "the truth about what you saw"?
10. Have you ever had unexplained nosebleeds?

If you answered "No" to all of them, then it's a meteorite. On the other hand, if you answered "Yes" to one or more of them, well..........................

Guilty as charged - I do listen to Elvis but do not even wear a textile hat.

The rest of the questions are a negative except 4 where I am negative to the question but positive in blood.

About 1 - I don't know about the car but Asian sounding salesman regularly phones me for taking out insurance. Is that bad?

I don't think the object I saw came from the Vredefort impact but may have been a separate smaller impact.

"Guilty as charged - I do listen to Elvis but do not even wear a textile hat.

The rest of the questions are a negative except 4 where I am negative to the question but positive in blood.

About 1 - I don't know about the car but Asian sounding salesman regularly phones me for taking out insurance. Is that bad?"

You have to clarify this further then.

1. Have you experienced lost time?
2. Do the Asian insurance salesmen seem to know uncanny details of your family life?
3. Do you ever get sudden flashes of inspiration on how to build zero-point energy or anti-gravity devices etc?
4. Have you ever experienced flashes of memories of life on Zeta Reticuli or the Pleiades?
5. Do you sometimes catch glimpses of tiny, skinny gray-skinned men with huge bald heads?
6. Have you ever caught glimpses of Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones lookalikes following you around?

If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, then yes, it is bad; very bad.

Oops I must be doomed.

1) keep loosing time, passwords, keys and more.

3) Often flashes of memories of the old . . . whatever.

5) I think they are dark green (Silicon / tektite based)

Hi Hendrik,

you should first check if the part is radioactive or not, it may be really dangerous!

If radioactive this may come from your country's experiments with nuclear bombs. This would explain also the glassy tektites-like parts.

Then please make some fotos and post these here.

I don't think that reentry from space will be able to break up such a massive plate, nor is it likely that the plate is coming from space.

Reentry is simply not violent enough to do such damage. The plasma that is generated by any part coming with 10 to 30km/s trough (first very low pressure then gradually higher) air will heat the surface to above melting temperature. But the heat will take some time to go into the material. The stress that is induced by heating and expansion on rising temperature will break up the material (if this massive). Thin sheets will readily be heated and blown away as in the Space-Shuttle accident.

Then let the "pure chromium" be specified: analyse the composition, this may help.

The ripple is an indication that there was a high velocity air contacting a partially molten surface.

Your questions:

1. the part was molten only at the surface,

2. really regular breakup cannot be in good metallic material, only in cleavable crystals

3. Reflected pieces can be existing as an incoming heavy object is generating a pressure wave that has a pressure distribution around the impact point that is radially more or less constant in amplitude. So this pressure wave can throw parts to the side.

4. I saw many tektites from different origins but only one was a mixture of stone and tektite material: the shock-waves caused the transformation in layers and were not so intense to transform the total piece. This was in a small meteorite.

5. Any extraterrestrial visiting party would use optimised structures. This part seems more likely as the armour of an early battleship.

RHABE

Hi Rhabe

I will get a photo and post it here.

I did some surfing and got hold of www.namibweb.com/hoba.html What could be the reason for the cuboid shape? The sample I saw must be described as cuboid.

I am more at home with the random shape of the Gibeon-meteorites.

About the Chrome - That was what the man told me. Only a small area was cut and faced. It most probably consist of iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium and other.

I think it came down separately.

Sorry the correct link is www.namibweb.com/hoba.htm

If it is really a meteorite, then it is worth some serious money, stop working in the 31 degree sun, sell it and get under the air conditioner!

Hi Steve

Unfortunately it is not my piece of rock. (Maybe it is fortunate.)

In SA we have load sharing (darkness sharing - due to bad planning) - I mean what is the use of an AC if you do not have electricity to run it.

Look into photovoltaic... it will help you with your power (or lack of) problems... Is it true that they have cars down there in SA that will shoot flames out of the sides to protect against car jacking? Dumb question, just someting that I have been told by people that have visited your country.

pictures, pictures, pictures, pictures oh I am sorry I am being redundant...

Hi Hendrik, excellent thread, right up my street! I'd love to see some picture as well.

NB. My feelings on UFO's are - Why would they come all this way and only kidnap country bumpkins - or only talk to the people in the gov.com who can keep a secret, you know, the ones no-one else can find?

"Why would they come all this way and only kidnap country bumpkins"

Because the so-called "country bumpkins" are the only ones who are open-minded enough to believe in over-unity free energy and to actually construct the devices, so they are the only ones entrusted with the knowledge.

"or only talk to the people in the gov.com who can keep a secret, you know, the ones no-one else can find?"

Because they are the only ones brainless enough to obey without question, nor try to protect themselves from alien brainwashing by wearing tin-foil hats, avoiding fluoridated water and listening to Elvis Presley. Must be something about bureaucracy that reduces once-intelligent people into mindless drones.