Mystery Behind Glitter's Secret Buyers

You're telling me nobody actually knows who is secretly buying massive amounts of

glitter and why they don't want anyone to find out?

Two of the biggest glitter manufacturers in the entire US are both in New Jersey,

buddy, and both are weirdly secretive about who

they're selling to.

In 2018, The New York Times sent an investigative

reporter to one of them, and they

refused to let her anywhere near the factory.

Wouldn't even let her into a room where she could hear the machines.

She interviewed the former manager and asked...

Can you tell me what your biggest buyer is?

No, I absolutely know that I can't.

Okay, but you know what it is?

Oh, God. Yeah, and you'd never guess it.

Let's just leave it at that

... then pushed further and was told this customer doesn't want anyone

to know it's

glitter, and if you looked at the finished product,

you wouldn't even be able to

tell.

So who is it?

Glitter was invented in 1967 by a man who also worked on the

Manhattan Project, the team that built the first atomic weapons.

His own son said glitter is used in currency, passports,

rocket fuel,

and by the military to disrupt radar systems.

And recently, people started comparing glitter under a

microscope to cremated human

remains, and the similarity is apparently uncanny.

So what is it actually being used for?