An Odd Response To A FOIA Request On Recovered UAP Materials Leads To Researching Spintronics

A FOIA request for recovered UAP materials being studied in Las Vegas has been answered with 154 pages. Those pages are 5 of the 37 DIRD’s commissioned by AAWSAP that have already been released. Nonetheless, the response is interesting. The titles are Metallic Glasses, Biomaterials, Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms, Metallic Spintronics, and Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications. Below is a post with the response (look for the links in the submission statement).
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vw0cyt/dia_releases_154_pages_of_uap_test_results_after/

I have already been combing through the 37 DIRD’s and immediately made a few connections. For your reference here is a link to all of them in a searchable format.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/157TTDiyRId02tL9Q6dgW0Fgn0P2olOa7?usp=sharing

And here is another link for redundancy that is picture format.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/95tgfd2lljqrve3/AABKl58mfojoZjNiKEZAz8gMa?dl=0

As someone who has researched spintronics and meta materials in the past, they stand out to me in particular. I will be doing a deep dive into those 2 papers and how they may relate to the topic. This post will only be PART 1 and cover spintronics.

TLDR;

AAWSAP commissioned 37 scientific papers that are now public. Someone FOIA’d about UAP materials being studied and DIA responded with 5 of these papers. One paper was on spintronics and another on metamaterials. TTSA bought an alleged sample of Roswell crash material and gave it to the Army to study in 2019. According to Puthoff it appeared to be a metamaterial that acts as a waveguide at the terahertz frequency. The two papers on spintronics and metamaterials also touches on creating materials that operate at this frequency and specifically that such materials would be radiation resistant and ideal for long space travel.

The Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc Sample

Perhaps some of you remember TTSA announcing a partnership with the US Army in 2019 to study some “exotic materials” (alleged UFO crash material) and also study some pretty wild science, such as active camouflage, inertial mass reduction, and quantum communication. I know I do as this announcement is what got me particularly into researching the UAP topic. Below is an article about that announcement.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwywx/the-army-told-us-why-it-partnered-with-tom-delonges-ufo-group

From the article:

Halleaux explained that the government believes the “key technologies or capabilities that [the Army] is investigating with TTSA are certainly on the leading edge of the realm of the possible” and comes at a low cost for the government.

A little more digging reveals that the material in question is but a few pieces that have been making the rounds in ufo circles, but that this piece is the one acquired from Linda Moulten Howe who acquired it from Art Bell who acquired it anonymously and is allegedly from the Roswell crash.

Hal Puthoff also discusses the sample with UFO Joe. Notice the bolded statement below.

So the answer is, we don’t, yet, really know where it came from. And it’s true that ten years ago Linda Howe provided us with a sample. And we did a lot of tests. Got electron microscope pictures and irradiated it with various gigahertz frequencies, megahertz frequencies and so on. We couldn’t make anything out of it. So it kind of went on the shelf. And it was only after this paper on meta-materials was published, we said, “Oh my gosh. The claim here, that this could have some real utility as microscopic waveguides, would actually fit the structure, you know, that we see there.” Okay, well where do we go with that?

Well, the truth of the matter is, that piece is actually pretty mangled and what you’d really like to do is say, “Okay, well let’s have a nice, clean piece of this, and let’s irradiate with terahertz frequencies, first of all, to see if it really does act as a microscopic waveguide for terahertz frequencies. And then, if that works, we’ll iradiate it with other kinds of fields and see if there are any unexpected responses and so on.” So it is still, despite the fact it gets unbelievable publicity out there, it’s still an absolutely unknown. It does range all the way from…this was a fraud of junk material sent to us, to…no, this came off the wedge of an ET craft.

We don’t know the answer to that, and the only way we are going to get something of value is to determine its properties or maybe reproduce it under nice conditions and determine its properties. So, it is still a giant question mark out there. So even though it’s, you know, it’s like…a few percent of our effort at TTSA, it’s like 99% of our criticisms (laughs). That’s just what you get in this field. That’s the way it goes. Some of us have developed very hard skins. Another question?
https://www.ufojoe.net/hal-puthoff-transcript-transiitontalks-qa/

Puthoff elaborates further in another interview:
Well, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science moves along. We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic radiation terahertz frequencies. So, the wavelength is 60 microns, which is a pretty small size. But it turns out because of the metamaterial aspect of this material, those bismuth layers that act as waveguides can be one twentieth the size of the wavelength, and usually when you make a waveguide it’s gotta be about the size of the wavelength. So, in fact this turned out to be a material that would propagate sub-wavelength waveguide effects. Why somebody wants to do that we still don’t know the answer to that.
https://whatsupwithufos.com/stanford-professor-gary-nolan/

Okay, so the speculation here by Puthoff is that the alleged sample in question could potentially act as a waveguide at the terahertz frequency (and maybe verifying it?) This is very interesting because few people are currently making things at this frequency, but it’s one we can reasonably expect future technology is heading towards. This means that it would actually be very difficult and expensive to test this idea. Perhaps that’s the reason it’s been given to the Army for testing. (It also could be a clever leak of somebody’s classified material to the Army using ufo’s as a cover story, but that’s pure speculation on my part. I’ve made similar speculations about using ufology as cover for leaking physical evidence of cutting edge research in my post about the Hair of the Alien dna story.)
https://medium.com/@Observing_The_Anomaly/anomalous-dna-connected-to-an-abduction-event-crazy-details-aside-the-dna-sample-is-potential-3751ba91a04e

If the bismuth sample is in fact a waveguide at the terahertz frequency then it is an example of some advanced engineering even by today’s standards. This doesn’t mean it’s alien in origin, but is interesting nonetheless. The chain of custody (assuming no funny business) goes back to the 90’s. It’s alleged to be from the Roswell crash which was 1947. Of course, that can’t really be verified so it’s always possible that it was made in the 90’s and has a falsified origin story. It would still be very difficult to explain who made it and exactly why even if it was made in the 90’s or today. Alternatively, it could legitimately be a mysterious piece of engineering we are only beginning to figure out because our current technology is finally catching up to it. Obviously, such a thing in 1947 is very difficult to explain.

DIRD on Spintronics

This paper specifically mentions materials that could be made to operate in the terahertz frequency. Considering the fact the paper was commissioned by AAWSAP it’s possible the very same bismuth material may have inspired or at least influenced the paper. Therefore, there may be something to learn by reading the paper.

It opens up by explaining how the further miniaturization of computer chips faces serious challenges and how spintronics could be used to make the next generation of computer chips. The necessary adoption of radical new technology to keep Moore’s Law going is known to those knowledgable in computer chip manufacturing. Spintronics are a new class of electronic devices where information is carried not by the electron charge, but by the intrinsic spin of the electron. Changing the spin of an electron is faster and requires less power than moving it. It also could have applications for quantum computing. These devices are built with alternating layers of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic material. It claims that in the past 20 years (written in 2009) this field has seen unprecedented growth and already spawned major technological growth in information storage.

GMR = Giant Magnetoresistance

STT = Spin-Transfer-Torque

Below is direct quote on applications that could be used in terahertz range.

The STT application in high-frequency technologies is based on the spin-transfer-induced precession of spins. The previous section discussed how precession of magnetization in GMR devices can convert a dc current input into an ac voltage output. The frequency of this output can be tuned from a few GHz to > 100 GHz by changing the applied magnetic field and/or the dc current, effectively resulting in a current-controlled oscillator for use in practical microwave circuits. Hence, the STT effect in GMR structures provides a means to engineer a nanoscale high-frequency oscillator powered and tuned by dc current. Such an oscillator could have frequency characteristics spanning more than 100 GHz and perhaps into terahertz range.

If I’m understanding this properly the application is for information transmission and processing including wireless applications.

The paper goes on to summarize that current computer chip technology has a thermal dissipation problem that might end progress in the computer chip industry well before 2035. This has been termed “The Red Brick Wall” where no known manufacturable solutions exist for continued scaling.

Below is a direct quote of future applications:

A number of new spintronic devices based on GMR and STT have been proposed. These include high-frequency (GHz) oscillators, sources, and detectors, as well as magnetic field sensors-for example, in nonvolatile memories such as racetrack and STT magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM). However, much fundamental work remains to be done before we see commercial applications of these devices. For the memory industry, development of these spintronic applications may lead to a universal memory that would combine cost benefits of DRAM, speed of SRAM, and nonvolatility of flash RAM. Potentially all logic operations on a chip could be carried out by manipulating spins in metallic systems instead of manipulating charges in semiconductor transistors, as in conventional microchips. Moreover, such operations could be combined on a chip with a universal memory. This would result in a new scalable and radiation-resistant electronics, computers, and so forth. The radiation resistance would be of particular interest for aerospace applications because the radiation in space is known to severely damage conventional electronics by building up a destructive charge in transistors. Long space trips that would expose onboard electronics to years of radiation would benefit from the radiation resistance and reduced power consumption (for example, like a nonvolatile memory that can retain the stored information even when not powered) of metallic spintronic devices. More generally, the impact of reduced power consumption in electronic devices is hard to overestimate, as we rely on such devices in almost every aspect of our everyday lives.

The paper is pretty lengthy and detailed, but the major takeaway is that a better class of computer chips can be made using spintronics that not only is faster and more efficient, but radiation resistant for long space trips.

Additional Research

This is a fast growing field and the paper was written in 2009. Also, the bismuth material was given to the Army in 2019 so looking into recent publications on the topic could be insightful. I’m also interested in attempting to gleam the thought process of Puthoff. The DIRD on spintronics doesn’t ever use the term “topological insulator” but it’s a relevant concept that’s worth understanding because the bismuth sample in question is likely this and not the layered ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic devices discussed in the paper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulator

I did some digging to find what paper Puthoff was referring to that led them to speculate the bismuth sample may be a terahertz waveguide and I found this paper from 2007 making the prediction bismuth could be made to act as a topological insulator.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=physics_papers

I found a 2021 paper demonstrating terahertz modulation via dc current using bismuth topological insulators that sounds very much like what the DIRD on spintronics was describing.
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0048755

Also, in 2017 there was the discovery of a hexagonal 2D for of bismuth that works at room temperature.
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-breakthrough-spintronics.html

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