On Mon, 24 May 2004 05:59:12 GMT, Paul wrote:

The item in the photo at the link below was found impacted on the
desert floor .... anyone seen anything like this before?

Yeah, not exactly like, but it's pretty obviously aircraft debris. I
mean, it hasn't reentered the atmosphere, since there's no melting and
the paint is still there, so it's not part of a satellite or
spacecraft.

For some reason, I keep thinking F-4. I don't know why, though. How
about some dimensions and materials? A picture may be worth a
thousand words, but a picture with dimensions and some words is worth
a lot more.

Can you give me an approximate latitude and longitude so I can look it
up on my Western Aeronautical Test Range maps? The more correct they
are, the more useful, but that may not be possible.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer