Hurmenetar,
A few points;
1. Puthoff's public lecture/video defies the idea that the "CIA" is keeping the whole thing secret for use by break away civilizations. . Notice he also says what I've been trying to tell you guys; that the intel teams are so compartmentalized that a conspiracy on a massive scale is virtually impossible. The conspiracy theory breaks down. The video is worth listening to for that alone, though I'm sure it won't make a dent in the minds of those given to wild paranoia tinged imaginations.
2. Puthoff merely presents what he says is allegedly a piece of metal from a UFO crash. He briefly goes on to say that the metal experts he was aware of didn't know how it could be made or what it could be good for. That doesn't mean that no one on earth knew how to make it at the time. In fact, apparently we can make it now. We don't know the real origin of the sample. We would need more opinions, replication, etc related to the metal.
3."We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic radiation terahertz frequencies. So, the wavelength is 60 microns, which is a pretty small size. But it turns out because of the metamaterial aspect of this material, those bismuth layers that act as waveguides can be one twentieth the size of the wavelength, and usually when you make a waveguide it’s gotta be about the size of the wavelength. So, in fact this turned out to be a material that would propagate sub-wavelength waveguide effects. Why somebody wants to do that we still don’t know the answer to that." - it is pure conjecture that someone purposefully built the material to have these capabilities. It could just be an accident of nature. If you have that material, it has those wavelengths. There's no proof it was engineered that way. I picked up this from somewhere on the internet re; Puthoff's metal scrap - "waveguide structure he seems to refer to the work of Viktor A. Podolskiy and others from
2004 and
2005, so actually less than a decade after they got their samples (and there's probably earlier research than those two articles). There's little to support his conclusions their piece of scrap could similarly function as a waveguide, which seems to require proper structuring. And even such waveguide simply means a structure that allows electromagnetic waves of some frequencies to pass through, not some crazy levitation that Tom DeLonge has been implying."
5. Note that Puthoff says that the wavelength feature of the scrap was discovered after "our science catches up" - he's already assumed the scrap is alien engineered. He's planting in your head the preconceived notion he has in his own. He's a true believer and that is not a good thing in an area of study where there is scant and ambiguous evidence. True believers will always try to make any evidence fit their accepted and favored paradigm. Watch out!
4. After rapidly concluding with a few statements re item 3, Puthoff goes off on all kinds of imaginings, theories and fun facts about physics - but none of that is relevant to the provenance of the piece of metal. It's all window dressing and smoke and mirrors.
I do think there is something to UFOs. The military has released a lot of good evidence that strongly suggests there's something going on in the skies. I don't have to give credence to every borderline personality disorder that sticks something under their skin and calls it an implant for attention seeking purposes, not every schizophrenic that hears alien voices in his head; nor the unscrupulous podiatrists that give them the attention they seek. Nor do I have to believe that there are people living in underground (literally) societies at the North Pole and communicating with aliens and flying retro-engineered UFOs, or any of that crap. I think a lot of people are making money selling marginal junk to gullible people.
When it comes to psi, life after death, consciousness /= brain, we have lots of good evidence of various types; quantum leaps beyond a little scrap of metal of uncertain provenance, no public testing records, no replication of testing and no ability to examine further and the word of one man who is clearly a true believer.
When I say I want to see an implant or a piece of wreckage, I mean I want to see it in an independent study with many experts reviewing the protocols and results. With implants, that should be a piece of cake given how many people claim to be walking around with them - and I don't mean some shady podiatrist cum alien implant surgical removal expert that won't allow the evidence to be reviewed. I mean, lets get a panel of objective ethical skeptics to have a look at it, publicly. I'm willing to bet there's nothing to see, but, what the heck, have a go at it.