Axil. Why did you select the last picture and call it 'part of a sphere' when the report clearly says 'Alan Goldwater observed another fragment in the collected magnetic parts that appeared to have a similar elemental make-up, however, it was not a sphere.'
Because it is clearly called 'a fragment'. There is no evidence it was anything to do with Alan's beautiful and interesting shots of what clearly are spheres.
Granted, the fragment may or may not be a section of a crushed sphere, but in any case, that fragment of transmuted matter shows in detail how the fragment formed. IMHO, the fragment has all the indications of being a portion of a crushed sphere being crenulated and showing the curvature of a sphere.
It looks to me like transmutation is a process where transmuted elements are formed within an EVO one element at a time then stored in stasis while the elements mix while each element remains in a fluid state until the EVO terminates whereupon the transmuted elements being unevenly distributed in the fluid take on the form of a hollow sphere as if the transmuted fluidized elements were fast frozen.