don Lupe said:
Aric; to reply. I'm back in Green Valley AZ.. Just came out of mnts trying to get into canyon where Haags Tucson Ring ,meteorite came in. I was in canyon years ago but didnt reconice it for what is was. Problem now is excess. All ranch gates are locked and Forest Service is unfriendly by leting trails deterorate.. Just too hard for me. Had to give up...anyways, thanks for your tip on weather..As far as this meteorite is concerned.. I belive the not very bright "Miner" actualy found some of it, the NI trace, and no one took him serious..People are are such a pain when it comes to purity of reason. The Noetic side of it...I do some work as a Empath and get paid by my sucess. Some private invester groups who0 are serious people and a joy to work with..Blah-blah,. Basta.. Later.
Well, just to add a bit of interesting flavor to the Port Orford Meteorite story, there was a Port Orford man, a former in-law of mine, who worked in the forests until he retired, forging logging roads in southwestern Oregon, including much of Curry County (Port Orford area). He confides a story to a select few people, including my sister (formerly married to his grandson). He claims that, many years ago, he was driving bulldozer in one of the mountain areas suspected to be a site for the meteorite.
He struck against a very large boulder with the blade of his dozer. It scraped and sparked heavily. He thought it more like a metal-to-metal impact than a mere stone. Since it was right in the path of his intended road, he heaved the massive obastacle with the bulldozer, pushing it into a close-by pond where it sunk completely out of sight.
Since the experience, and when sharing it, my sister says he always adamantly denies that he ever had anything to do with losing the Port Orford meteorite.
True story? Hard to say, I have always felt that of all the sorts of people to discover the lost meteorite, timber workers with such jobs as this oldtimer would be the ones most likely to come upon the Port Orford meteorite, because their jobs take them over so much land as a simple course of their duties. Prospectors and treasure hunters who may have a general idea of where to look, but not truly adequate time or resources to canvas such a large area of land, simply work on odds not unlike betting on horses, with a bit of chance due to educated guesses and general information, but really still having odds against them.
Am truly sorry that the land has become so accessible. I have noticed as well over the last 20 years or so the areas I used to frequent with fairly free reign are now very closed up and unfriendly toward strangers. Of course this is with good reason, and anymore an explorer has to forge a relationship and trust with those land managers/owners before ever getting anywhere.
I hope you enjoyed this rare bit of "possibility." I have found it much more plausible than some of the discredit efforts, in any case.
~Aric Fisher
