Taking the late Bob White's account at face value, he and a friend found this strange lump of metal near a remote highway in isolated America after an apparent UFO sighting.
It was discovered at the location where they claimed to see a multi-coloured object fall out of a huge ball of light as it ascended upwards into the sky.
As a result of the strangeness of what became known as Bob White's UFO artefact, coupled with the description of how he found it, the object has been branded "not just the smoking gun evidence" for aliens, but "the bullet", by UFO believers ever since.
Mr White has sworn that in 1985 he was asleep while a companion drove him through remote areas between Grand Junction, Colorado and the Utah border.
It was two or 3am when his friend awake him a second time to say the light in the sky they saw before was getting bigger.
His account remained steadfast until his death in 2009.
He said: "The light was about the size of a full harvest moon.
"As we got closer, it grew larger.
"When we were a few hundred yards from it, I turned off the ignition and we coasted up close to it.
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