Buck,

I got my rock out of the safety deposit box yesterday and spent the day looking at it. I haven't really looked at the rock itself for over a year. Once I decided to make this rock known, I have kept it safe and haven't had much opportunity to look at it, only the pieces that I have extracted and kept at my home. After spending the day looking at the rock, the only reason no one has seen the fusion crust is simply because no one has looked. It is obvious everywhere around the rock, it just varies like I showed in the fusion crust drawings. To make things perfectly clear, here is a picture that represents the insides of the rock and another that represents the fusion crust.

The fusion crust on this rock is going to prove very informative. Actually, the rock shows different fusion crusts at different places. Those places that had sand or clay showing actually have a yellow fusion crust. There are places that look very classic with black shinny fusion crust and some that are more the color of the rock itself. Of course the red parts have a red tinge to the fusion crust which all goes to make my point that the fusion crust of any object must be a combination of the materials present in the rock, the structure of the rock itself, and the interaction and generation of heat caused by friction with the atmosphere. Here are more examples of fusion crust. If you have a photo editing program, then zoom in on these and see for yourself.

I can send more if you like. This is the reason I wanted a two hour session to decide the issues concerning fusion crust. This needs to be determined soon. There is no doubt that this is a meteorite and the only reason that no one accepts that fact is that everyone's mind has been so made up at the beginning that no one (except Jamie and his 15 seconds) has actually spent the time and looked at the rock through a microscope. One thing I have learned is that the best way to view the fusion crust is with a small incandescent light. I have a small field microscope that is older than my children. It is a monocular with an additional lenses that you add to make it a microscope. I have made a little holder so that I can attach a pen light to the microscope and then I can sit in my easy chair, put the rock in my lap, and look down into the vesicles by focusing up and down. Under this situation, the fusion crust stands out like a sore thumb because the light reflects off the shiny melted fusion crust areas and they are very visible and identifiable.

So be sure and make notice in your report that I asked for 8 hours to present my evidence, but you said that science can only spare 2 hours to determine the truth of the most important rock on the planet. I want to be your friend and I will try everything I know to keep things on that kind of relationship, but I will do everything necessary to make this rock known. So in your report to NASA, if you miss any point that I have made or forget any evidence I have presented, then I will write my own evaluation of your report and any deficiencies that I find. After all, this is a search for the truth and if those who haven't even seen the rock can proclaim that it is not a meteorite, surely one who has spent hundreds of hours examining the rock should be able to make a correcting report. Anyway, the world watches. What are you going to do next?

If you need more pictures of fusion crust, just holler and I will provide them. I am looking forward to my visit, if it ever gets set. I'm sure that Alaska is looking better and better to you all the time. I may see you there someday.

Your friend,