The press conference is tomorrow. This could be as big as Roswell! I can't wait:
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/will-proof-of-extraterrestrial-life-be-revealed-at-a-michigan-ramada-inn/19735919
Will Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Be Revealed at a Ramada Inn?
Larry Knowles
AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- A Michigan man claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich in
extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference Tuesday that
alien life, at long last, has been found. The announcement will take place at a
Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich.
"I prayed for Jesus to send me an ice meteorite, because I knew it would be quite
valuable," Duane P. Snyder, 65, said of the chunk of ice he found on a South Haven
roadway in 2000.
Valuable indeed. For centuries, humankind has sought confirmation that it isn't
alone in the universe. If Snyder's claim is accurate, the South Haven resident
will be catapulted to worldwide fame, and the Ramada Inn, 50 miles west of
Kalamazoo, will likely become an iconic landmark for the human race.
Duane P. Snyder
E.T. may phone home -- from a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich. The red object
above was found embedded in a chunk of ice in 2000. The owner of the chunk,
Duane P. Snyder, believes the squiggle is an alien life form and will discuss
his finding at the Ramada Inn this week.
In March 2000, Snyder noticed several chunks of ice on the road near his home.
Since it hadn't snowed for weeks, he deduced that the ice must have been an ice
meteorite. After gathering up a few pieces and stashing them in his freezer, he
spent the next 10 years trying to convince scientists to analyze the frozen
mass.
However, Snyder received little interest from the scientific community, and in
September, he paid to have chemical analyses performed by two commercial
laboratories. What the labs found -- that samples contained particles with
unique molecular structures -- convinced Snyder that he indeed had in his
possession alien life forms.
He has set up a website, snydericyrite.com, where people can purchase the lab reports and photos of the
particles. He's given the particles descriptive names, such as "Red Watani Worm," "Six Legged
Life Form" and "Clear Snakelike Life Form."
In a phone interview with AOL News, Snyder emphasized that more rigorous
analysis is needed to determine just what sort of alien life form he has,
adding that the prohibitive cost has so far prevented him from getting tests
done.
"I'm hoping some scientist calls and says, 'Hey, Duane, I'll do it for you,'"
Snyder said.
Last week, Snyder took strides toward getting that call. He issued a press release, under
the headline "Ice Meteorite Found With Extraterrestrial Life-Forms," in which
he announced Tuesday's news conference.
The release received worldwide distribution and, according to Snyder, media
outlets from Germany, Mexico and Sweden plan to cover the story.
All the attention means that, for a brief moment, the Ramada Inn in South Haven
will be at the center of the world -- or, in this case, universe. And that has
the staff at the Ramada Inn slightly anxious.
"We haven't had a chance to speak with Mr. Snyder," Saima Farrukh, director of operations
for the Ramada Inn in South Haven, told AOL News. "And we're all kind of curious to know what
kind of life form he has."
Farrukh added that the press release only piqued her curiosity.
"It didn't give a lot of info," she said, "so I was going through my chemistry book
to find out what the terms mean."
Snyder, a former Air Force mechanic and self-described inventor, spent a good
portion of his life looking for meteorites before stumbling on his momentous
block of ice.
"I'd been hunting meteorites for a long time," he said, "and I kept finding
'meteor-wrongs.'"
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