5 mixing s and p -waves at small distances while at large distances turning into a two-body system entirely of s - waves for a nucleon and $^{8}$Be in the unbound ground state. The deceiving appearance as a two-body virtual state is incorrect. The interpretation as a two-body nucleon- $^{8}$Be resonance is also incorrect since the small-distance structure is of genuine three-body character and this is the very reason for the existence of a barrier allowing the appearance of resonance features. Furthermore the parameters from R -matrix analysis of the experimental data is misleading because of the incorrect but crucial assumption of the existence of a two-body nucleon- $^{8}$Be resonance. and thicker at small energy where the adiabatic potential itself already exhibits a small barrier. The same constant energy is approached at larger energies again correspond- ing to $^{8}$Be in addition to the Coulomb tail from the pro- ton. The partial wave decomposition in Fig.3 resembles the $^{9}$Be results with a tendency towards an increase of higher partial waves due to the additional Coulomb po- tential. The astrophysical nαα recombination rate is proba- bly unaffected provided the corresponding cross section is obtained by precisely the same parametrization for the measured inverse process of photodisintegration. The problem only seems to arise when a different procedure is applied in these mutually inverse processes. However, all resonance decays do not necessarily proceed through two-body channels. In Fig.4 we show the WKB estimate (dashed line) and the resonance width obtained after a complex scaling cal- culation (dot-dashed line). In both cases the width is small even above the $^{8}$Be ground state energy due to the additional adiabatic barrier and the extended Coulomb tail. However, the precise value of the energy depends on the three-body potential used in Eq.(1). A minimum value for the attractive strength of the three-body force can be obtained by placing the $^{9}$Be resonance at the $^{8}$Be resonance energy threshold. Using this three-body force we can then estimate a lower limit for the 1/2 + resonance in $^{9}$B, which is found to be slightly below 2 MeV with a width of 1.3 MeV (left triangle up in the figure). The implication is that the decay mechanism is entirely through the $^{8}$Be ground state as assumed in most previ- ous publications. However, the present tabulated value of the resonance width emerges through an averaging pro- cedure of data analysis and parametrization of a decaying two-body structure. The energy dependent width arising from the R -matrix interpretation as a two-body structure is suspicious since the three-body effects responsible for the barrier and the width are not included in the analy- sis. The true resonance lifetime should be related to the tunneling probability through the barrier arising from re- structuring the three-body wave function. The width is more likely directly found from the peak in the measured cross section. We conclude that the controversy over the 1 / 2 + continuum structures of $^{9}$Be and $^{9}$B is resolved in a full three-body model. This resonance is accompanied by a second state at 2.05 MeV with a width of 1.6 MeV (right triangle up in the figure). This second resonance is very stable, basi- cally independent of the structureless three-body force. Therefore, further decrease of the three-body attraction in V 3 b would eventually make this second resonance at 2.05 MeV the first 1/2 + excited state. The two reso- nances are dominated by s and p -waves between proton and α -particle, respectively. Crudely speaking these two structures correspond to $^{8}$Be+proton and $^{5}$Li+ α . Since the large-distance p -wave properties essentially are unaf- fected by the three-body potential the second resonance remains close to the same energy. Thus the unobserved resonance in $^{9}$B may in fact be either two or a combina- tion of two resonances. In any case we expect genuine three-body structures with an energy around 2 MeV and a width in the vicinity of 1.5 MeV. Acknowledgments. We are grateful for many clarify- ing discussions with H.O.U. Fynbo and K. Riisager. This work was partly supported by DGI of MEC (Spain), con- tract No. FIS2008-01301. Discussion and Conclusions. The 1 / 2 + continuum structures of $^{9}$Be and $^{9}$B are computed as genuine three- body resonances. The energies are above the threshold for forming the ground state $^{8}$Be-resonance and the par- tial wave decompositions are dominated by s -waves in the Jacobi coordinates connecting the two α -particles and their center-of-mass and the nucleon. 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