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Tena Bar Money Find
georger:
4 month old bands as of yesterday buried at TBar.
georger:
Crop showing Deterioration of a Banknote exposed to UV at the surface of the beach for four mos. Compare this to any Cooper bill or to any of Kaye's photos!
Tom Kaye:
Our scientific investigation into the Cooper money diatoms has now been peer reviewed and will officially publish in the journal Scientific Reports (one of the Nature journals) tomorrow. Somehow the cat got out of the bag early and I am getting emails for interviews so I am giving you guys early access to the paper so you know what is going on. So it is clear, Scientific Reports is a serious, peer reviewed journal with an impact factor of 4.1 which puts it in the middle range of science journals. All the forensics journals I looked at had impact factors around 1 or less so this journal is harder to get into than your typical crime stuff. They don't tell you who your reviewers are but one appeared to be a hydrology/diatom expert and the other seemed to be a forensics guy so they covered their bases. The criticisms were comparatively light and the paper went from submission to acceptance in a very short time. This was the first time that I could find that diatoms were used to constrain a seasonal timeline in a forensic case so it is actually an important paper in the bigger picture beyond Cooper.
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(EDIT) Turns out I screwed up and the publication date was today. :(
Tom (and Mark)
Chaucer:
Wow, Tom. Fascinating stuff!
Based on your results, it seems to indicate that the Cooper money was dry from the hijacking until the early summer and then somehow became submerged before being buried on Tena Bar shortly after.
Perhaps the money came to rest on the river bank in November, 1971 until May/June 1972 when it fell/slid/was washed into the Columbia somewhere shortly upstream from Tena Bar where it somehow ended up where it did (Dredge? Flood?).
The question now, it seems, is where did the money end up AFTER DBC jumped? It was certainly near the Columbia but where along the river? Nearer to the location of the find? Or more toward where the flight crossed the Columbia on the flight path?
Regardless, my theory that he hit the water with the money moments after the hijacking is in serious doubt - along with those who claim the money was buried immediately after or shortly after Cooper landed.
Profound findings, Tom. Congratulations.
Robert99:
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Register or LoginWow, Tom. Fascinating stuff!
Based on your results, it seems to indicate that the Cooper money was dry from the hijacking until the early summer and then somehow became submerged before being buried on Tena Bar shortly after.
Perhaps the money came to rest on the river bank in November, 1971 until May/June 1972 when it fell/slid/was washed into the Columbia somewhere shortly upstream from Tena Bar where it somehow ended up where it did (Dredge? Flood?).
The question now, it seems, is where did the money end up AFTER DBC jumped? It was certainly near the Columbia but where along the river? Nearer to the location of the find? Or more toward where the flight crossed the Columbia on the flight path?
Regardless, my theory that he hit the water with the money moments after the hijacking is in serious doubt - along with those who claim the money was buried immediately after or shortly after Cooper landed.
Profound findings, Tom. Congratulations.
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Chaucer,
The above looks like you are having a Come to Jesus moment!
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