Man Wants $10 Million For Strange Object
Newspaper Ad Claims Object Can Explain Antigravity
POSTED: Monday, January 7, 2002
UPDATED: 11:35 am EST January 7,
2002
PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. -- A Florida man wants $10 million for an object that he says came from an UFO, Local 6 News reported.
James Hughes recently took out an advertisement in The Florida Today newspaper for an object he said could hold the secret to antigravity.Hughes told Local 6 News reporter Donald Forbes that his friend was in a New Jersey garbage dump 45 years ago when a cigar-shaped UFO dumped the rock-looking piece. He said that his friend gave him the object because he was a physicist.Forbes reported that Hughes' phone has been ringing off the hook since he placed the ad in the newspaper and he has had a $7.5 million offer.Hughes said that he had the object tested at a university lab and found that it contained unusual metal alloys.If Hughes sells the object, he plans to use the money to help airport security, according to the report.
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