8. In Conclusion

(To read this from the beginning, start with Replicating the Roswell Rock , then follow the links.) Updated version HERE
A final comparison. The original is on the right.

It would usually be easy to allow the bitter end of an experience like this cast a dark shadow over the whole thing. Putting effort into something you enjoy, that ultimately goes unrewarded can certainly be disappointing, but it hardly seems to matter in this case. I think what was so intriguing (and rewarding all by itself) was that I managed to do something that many people were saying could only be done by aliens - How often does a person get a chance to do something as odd as that? It also resulted in some unexpected interactions with some very interesting people. So in conclusion I would like to give special thanks to some of them.

To UFO Investigator Chuck Zukowski - for actually buying a stone / To Crop Circle Investigator Andreas Muller for featuring my work in an article on his website - much appreciated! / And to Author Gary Val Tenuta for his words of support, and for trading me a signed copy of his book "The Ezekiel Code" for a Roswell Rock replica - Very Cool!

Additional thanks must go to my wife, who was also "very cool" and patient while I once again 'went off on one of my tangents'. Thanks also to those of you who bought rocks - hang on to them, looks like they might be rare indeed.

Oh - and one more thing... please don't leave them lying around just anywhere!