[meteorite-list] Nininger

[wayne holmes]

Hello all
I found out this last week that Dr Nininger had lived in Sedona. My question 
is does anyone know why  he picked Sedona? Was it the beauty of the red 
rocks or the so called healing powers in the area. Or did he find a 
Meteorite in the area. The Hollywood crowd has for years made this their 
playground and it might have been for the marketing aspect. My wife and I 
moved to Sedona in 1995 and we had no idea what a Vortex was and maybe for 
about a half second thought it was a Vortec that I used to fly point to 
point with as a student pilot back when. Working on the street in the uptown 
area selling Biplane rides I watched and witnessed the strange affects 
Sedona had on the some of the tourists. Almost everyday someone, mostly all 
women, would be having a good cry on one of 2 benches in front of my stand. 
When asked if there was something we could do for them most said they were 
just so happy or could not describe what had come over them. After awhile I 
started asking if they had visited or knew of the Vortex areas in Sedona. 
Odd most had no idea what a Vortex was but had taken a tour by one. I will 
write a story on this phenomena someday. Anyway I lived about 50 to 100 
yards from the old museum and never knew of its existence in Sedona.until 
this week. In 1997 I heard about the Geminids shower about to happen and 
found myself in the yard warming up the car to take my wife to work at 
daybreak. I watched the sky to the northeast and witnessed a Meteor enter 
the atmosphere leaving a smoke trail that lasted for 20 min. First time I 
had ever seen a smoke trail in all my years in the outdoors. To make this 
real short I purchased a $50 Bounty Hunter in Flagstaff a few months later. 
My granddaughter visited and we took a hike with the detector to some caves 
we had close to the rim country. Along the way I turned the detector on and 
while working my way up the mountain it went off big time. We started 
digging with a stick (no shovel with us) and came up with an object about 4" 
in the red soil. Heavily rusted and would now guess the weight at 200 to 
300grms and indeed probably an Iron.
I placed the piece in my storage unit and we moved to Bullhead City in 2000. 
In the last few months I have had the Easter Egg hunt of a life time. I 
searched the unit to my best before my daughter moved it to eastern Az and 
she continues to look but has not been through all the stuff. I met Robert 
Ward in Bullhead and visited with him while cleaning and cutting irons to 
know what a rusty very old space rock looks like. This brings the story full 
circle to the question why Dr. Nininger was in Sedona? I know one thing 
Sedona is a Magical place.
Did he ever find a Meteorite there. Guess I should read more but I prefer to 
hunt and marvel.
Happy Holidays
Wayne Holmes