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Posted on: July 17, 2017

The Perot Just Acquired a Rare, 2-Foot-Tall 'Alien Eye' Mineral

Visitors to the Perot Museum this week are among the first people in the world to lay eyes on a mineral that has a "cult-like following in the mineral collecting community," according to a press release by the museum of nature and science.

Dallas Observer, July 14, 2017
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