Antimatter Hypothesis: Cash-Landrum Incident

In another celebrated close encounter case, Betty Cash, Vicki Landrum, and Vicki’s grandson Colby encountered an antimatter matter object (AMMO) that they approximated to rival the size of the Dayton, Texas water tower. The object had a dull silver color with a diamond gem shape, rounded top and sides, but truncated bottom. This describes the distortion of perspective when looking up at a large overhead sphere. Ever notice how small children draw pictures of adults with small heads?

The object had blue lights around the middle, and when it got close to the ground, red orange ‘flames’ shot out in a cone shaped area between the object and the ground. Electrons from the ground ionized the air on a path to the object. The closet point being the bottom of the object created a cone like appearance.

The spectral emission lines of nitrogen are strong in red, yellow, green, and blue. Hydrogen has strong spectral lines in red and cyan, perhaps liberated in proton antiproton annihilations. The AMMO generated a tremendous amount of heat, which made the body of their automobile hot to the touch. Later, the witnesses all experienced symptoms of radiation poisoning, which is consistent with ionizing gamma radiation produced by matter-antimatter annihilations. It felt like sunburn, only the symptoms were far worse including blistering skin, fever, and hair loss.


So is AMMO a natural phenomenon or an interstellar tourist? What’s our verdict? Well, first and foremost AMMO is a risk to human health. That much is certain, and any manufactured vehicle that produces gamma radiation and atmospheric ionization is a technically incompetent design, which rules out intelligence. Therefore AMMO must be natural in origin, albeit rarely observed, and I advise everyone to stay clear for health reasons.

But what causes the reflective bubble? I have my suspicions about a natural cause, but common phenomena cannot explain it. Matter in a matter environment doesn’t look this way, and by analogy we can assume that antimatter in an antimatter environment doesn’t look this way either. A metallic surface is the closest approximation. Consider a mirror or a mylar balloon or mercury.

What causes a mirrored surface? For any surface, atoms absorb and emit light. An object is composed of atoms, where the color we see is emitted photons of light. An apple emits red wavelengths. An orange emits orange wavelengths. A banana absorbs all visible wavelengths except yellow that it emits. Fruits don’t glow on their own, but selectively emit photons that impinge on them. A mirror reflects all visible wavelengths, but absorbs none. So what’s the atomic difference between a fruit and a mirror?

We know that polished metal is reflective, and conducts electricity. Fruit does not conduct electricity as well. We also know that the spectrum produced by atoms is due to the atomic orbitals of electrons electrostatically bound to atomic nuclei. Electric current is the movement of weakly bound electrons from atom to atom. So if electrons in covalent bonds are selective in the wavelengths of light they absorb and emit, then donor electrons, like the valence electron of metals, are indiscriminate in the wavelengths of light they absorb and reradiate, which causes a mirrored surface.

Therefore the mirrored bubble around AMMO is an assemblage of electrons not bound to any atoms. In this case, matter and antimatter act together and produce an uncommon experience. That’s why the reflective bubble looks alien. The electrons are attracted to the antimatter by one or more forces, but electrostatically repel each other. What forces form the bubble?

Force on an electron at 1 meter (Newtons)
Electrostatic	Gravitation	Gravitation
1 proton	1 kg mass	10,000 kg mass
2.31×10-28	6.08×10-41	6.08×10-37

Even for a chunk of matter larger than an elephant, the electrostatic force between an electron and a proton overwhelms the gravitational force. A kilogram is over two pounds. Ten thousand kilograms is about eleven tons. So the reflective bubble around antimatter must be governed by electrostatic forces. Antiprotons of antimatter have negative charge, and positrons have positive charge. So a chunk of antimatter has a positive layer of positrons on its surface and electrons form a geodesic bubble of balancing electrostatic forces around the antimatter, where electrons are attracted to positrons and electrons repel each other. When the balance is disturbed, then the bubble pops, but it’s natural for the bubble to reform again.

The witnesses also reported seeing an escort of helicopters arrive after about twenty minutes, and identified some of the twenty-three helicopters they counted as the tandem-rotor Boeing Chinook variety. The incident took place in the vicinity of Houston, Texas on 29 December 1980, between Christmas and New Years. The closest vacuum chamber large enough to contain an object that big is located at Johnson Space Center, conveniently or coincidentally located outside Houston also. You may recall that it was used as a setting in the movie Armageddon.

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Secrecy

If our government has captured antimatter, then in the mind of some authorities a very good reason must exist for keeping that information secret. Tighter secrecy surrounds antigravity research today than the Manhattan project, which constructed the first atom bomb during World War II. Consider what happened with atomic research. We developed uranium fission. We tested it. We used it in war. We developed nuclear bombs, a hydrogen fusion chain reaction triggered by a plutonium fission chain reaction. And now nations all over the world have nukes, including enemy states. How safe do we feel now? Kind of defeats the purpose. Doesn’t it?

In an adversarial world, how would we feel if enemy states developed antigravity vehicles? Not a pleasant thought. But secrecy stifles scientific progress. Open inquiry is an absolute necessity for the scientific method to operate. The goals of national security and the goals of science are at odds. However, truth transcends context. Nobody needs government permission to prove the antimatter hypothesis or any other hypothesis. Other avenues of investigation exist, and that is typically the case.

Truth is fruit born of conscientious endeavors, but the nature of scientific, peer review publications is to abstain from efforts to coordinate thinking outside the orthodox. Peer review publications are geared toward reductionism, working out the details of existing theories, not airing promising new hypotheses. The greatest obstacle stifling progress, in all disciplines, is an innate defect within reductionism and within deduction: thinking inside the mainstream, and secrecy thrives on the complacency of reductionism.