On a white color restaurant tablecloths in San Francisco, under the bright light of the stained-glass dome ceiling with images of laurel wreaths, flying ships and a ship, lays a metal section the size of a shallot. Around it, three men were having lunch on a summer day in 2018. Jacques Vallée, a French information scientist, was explaining to Max Platzer, the editor of a leading aviation magazine. , about the manner in which the metal came into his possession. The story spans more than four decades with an unexplained twist in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he says.
