[meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus

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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.'"