“Keep a sharp eye open for pieces of rubber!” says an Air Force officer, as military personnel scour the wreckage at the crash site. “I’ll repeat that for you: keep a sharp eye open for pieces of rubber!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An officer stands over the cockpit wreckage. “Major! Major Manchek!” he calls. Manchek walks over to the cockpit. “Take a look at that, sir,” the officer says to Manchek. Manchek reaches into the cockpit and pulls out a bone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s a human bone,” says Manchek, back at the command site. “Arm, I think.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Well, it’s picked clean – – almost like it was polished,” says General Sparks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That’s right,” says Manchek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Well, I don’t get it,” says Sparks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There is no actual rubber on the Phantom F-4, General,” says a civilian investigator. “It’s all a synthetic plastic compound called polycron. It has some of the characteristics of human skin.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What the hell is that?” asks Manchek, pointing at a plastic bag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What’s left of his oxygen mask,” says the investigator. “It’s made of polycron. I’d say it was done by a chemical reaction of some sort, or maybe a microorganism.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Meaning?” asks Sparks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Meaning there was something in that plane that consumes plastic,” says Manchek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sparks looks at Manchek. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/www.andromedaminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/as097.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"29:57","filesize":"27.95M","date_recorded":"07-12-2020","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"29306016"},"tags":[],"series":[4,11],"episode_featured_image":"http:\/\/www.andromedaminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/as097.jpg","episode_player_image":"http:\/\/www.andromedaminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AndromedaCover1400.jpg","download_link":"http:\/\/www.andromedaminute.com\/cm\/podcast-download\/789\/minute-097-polychron.mp3","player_link":"http:\/\/www.andromedaminute.com\/cm\/podcast-player\/789\/minute-097-polychron.mp3","audio_player":"\n