New revelations reveal Roswell Debris was extraterrestrial!

Startling news, if it can be confirmed!
props to the UFO Iconoclast for bringing my attention to this amazing story! I highly recommend you read his detailed article.

A former high-level scientist employed by the involved laboratory has offered a confession that he was tasked to study the crashed UFO material. Information provided by two U.S. Air Force Generals also offers direct support for this discovery.

The article details several documents and statements (among them those of two generals) concerning some classified metallurgical studies done on the infamous 'memory metal' alleged pieces of the Roswell crash of 1947, made famous by the revelations of Jesse Marcel, Jr, the son of the famous Army Major who made the initial investigation of what has become known as the Roswell crash. Another quote from the article:

Battelle scientist Elroy John Center has stated that he analyzed metal from a crashed UFO when he was employed by the Institute. Center was a Senior Research Chemist who worked for Battelle for nearly two decades, from 1939 to 1957. This has been confirmed by both his University of Michigan alumni files and by the location of scientific papers that he authored during his employment while at Battelle.

These documents and confessions seem to confirm not only the debris themselves, but also the US military's interest in them, and even subsequent 'discoveries' made as a result of the studies of the alien material!
double wow, if these can be confirmed. I'm trolling the web now for more info....

[Update 07/05/09] the 3rd part of the series was released recently, and has some interesting additional info...

The TR3-B black Triangle

OrionSixNine wrote me this message today:

Have you read much on the TR3-B triangle?
Here is an article and a few videos on it.

I'm going to respond publicly since this is a very interesting aspect of UFOlogy and bears some thoughtful, measured response.

Regarding the "TR3-B", the term is a new one on me, but the stories associating the black triangles with Military Black Ops have been around since the mid-90's, and I've been hearing stories about the Aurora Program since then as well.

However, several aspects of the Black Triangle sighting don't make a lot of sense at first blush as military ops.
For one, in the 90's, there were several sightings, some from satellite even, of strange, corkscrew-shaped contrails. These were at the time attributed to the Aurora program and its newfangled propulsion system. Contrails of course don't make any sense given a gravity-reducing propulsion system:

mercury based [plasma],is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres,at a temperature of 150 degrees kelvin,and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to create a super conducted plasma,resulting in gravity disruption

So that's a big question mark. Also, while I am not a physicist, I'm pretty sure plasmas are a state of matter between liquid and gas, so something cooled down to 150 degrees Kelvin (about -190 Fahrenheit, or -123 celsius) is more likely to be a Bose-Einstein condensate, not a plasma.
So while that could be just a misidentification one way or the other, the fact is they can't both be the Aurora project.
Also, these triangles are usually FRIKKIN HUGE, and are often seen gliding slowly and silently near population centers. Why the hell would the military fly their secret shit over big cities in places like Belgium or over Phoenix, AZ? They wouldn't is the answer.
I personally think the triangles are something else, and all this talk of the TR3-B is disinfo to keep people from utterly freaking out. After all, a secret military craft is a lot easier on the old reality buffer than giant black alien spaceships scoping out our population centers....

Soviet UFOlogy, some history and context

A few gems of real interest concerning the history of UFOlogy in the Soviet Union in the 70's and 80's, including a brief retelling of the famous case where a 900m-wide UFO prepared a Ukrainian Missle base for launch of its nuclear missles...

Good reading for context as concerning the various secret government UFO research efforts throughout the cold war (as far as we know), and for some eyebrow-raising stories of soviet fighter pilot encounters with mile-long 'black clouds' etc...