Bob White was convinced the metal lump fell from a UFO.
Taking the late Bob White's account at face value, he and a friend found this strange lump of metal near a remote highway in isolated America after an apparent UFO sighting.
It was discovered at the location where they claimed to see a multi colored object fall out of a huge ball of light as it ascended upwards into the sky.
As a result of the peculiarity of what became known as Bob White's UFO artifact, coupled with the description of how he found it, the object has been branded:
Not just the smoking gun evidence for aliens, but the bullet, by UFO believers ever since.
Mr. White has sworn that in 1985 he was asleep while a companion drove him through remote areas between Grand Junction, CO and the Utah border.
It was 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. when his friend awoke him a second time to say the light in the sky they saw before was getting bigger.
His account remained steadfast until his death in 2009.
He said:
The light was about the size of a full harvest moon. As we got closer, it grew larger.
When we were a few hundred yards from it, I turned off the ignition and we coasted up close to it.
It was huge, the size of a very big barn. I got out of the car for a better look.
For some unknown reason, Jan turned on the headlights, and this light went up in the sky as fast as my eyes could follow it.
Then I saw another small light, bright orange with a tinge of yellow, white, & blue falling from it.
Mr. White said he climbed an incline and headed for where he thought it would have landed.
Bob said:
I found a groove in the ground about 18" deep and 9" wide, I followed the groove and there it lay. It was still glowing.
Bob White spent years trying to convince the world his object fell from a UFO.