{"id":2878,"date":"2016-12-21T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2020-06-10T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:59:50","slug":"analysis-soil-may-related-ufo-landing-site-roanoke-texas-october-2-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/analysis-soil-may-related-ufo-landing-site-roanoke-texas-october-2-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Soil that May be Related to a UFO Landing Site (Roanoke Texas, October 2, 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>At approximately 3:00 a.m., October 2, 2008, the witness got up and noted that it was \u201creal light\u201d outside, but didn\u2019t look out. A black circle about 15 feet across in the direction of the bright light was noticed the morning after the event.<\/p>\n<p>The black residue around the circle was \u201ckind of frosted\u201d and glowed somewhat. A photograph of the circle follows.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to examine the circle soil for any anomalies.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No unique materials were detected in the circle soil. All samples contain the usual soil components: silicate (mostly quartz mineral); calcium carbonate (calcite mineral); probable calcium sulfate (gypsum mineral) and fulvic acid (humate derived from the soil organics). There is also inorganic nitrate in all the samples. Literature (footnote) suggests possible sources of nitrate in soil as fertilizers, manures, mineralization and nitrification of plant and crop residues, conversion of nitrogen in the atmosphere by bacteria.1 However, we can rule out fertilizer because the owner related: \u201cWe never fertilize the pasture.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There does seem to be more crystallinity in the circle soil and control soil which was obtained only 2\u2019 from the circle components (quartz) compared to the control soil obtained 50\u2019 away. Also, there is less water in the circle and control soils than in the control soil 50\u2019 from the circle. This may be due to exposure to higher temperature. However, this is very highly speculative and not confirmed. Possible additional XRD analysis may determine if this is true.2<\/li>\n<li>The circle soil was mistakenly diluted with the control sample when it was collected. So it is unknown if this rendered any unique materials below the limit of detection of the analysis. Also, the ring soil was collected 18 days after the event. So it is highly possible that anything present may have been weathered away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Analysis<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocuments.theblackvault.com%2Fdocuments%2FBudinger%2FUT059.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/Budinger\/UT059.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/Budinger\/UT059.pdf\" download>Download [133.06 KB] <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background At approximately 3:00 a.m., October 2, 2008, the witness got up and noted that it was \u201creal light\u201d outside, but didn\u2019t look out. A black circle about 15 feet across in the direction of the bright light was noticed the morning after the event. The black residue around the circle was \u201ckind of frosted\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,2],"tags":[134,634,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-2878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trace-evidence","8":"category-ufos","9":"tag-landing","10":"tag-phyllis-budinger-collection","11":"tag-ufo"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Analysis of Soil that May be Related to a UFO Landing Site (Roanoke Texas, October 2, 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