1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 We're so excited to be able to see this. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 So this is it? 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 It's very heavy. It's heavy. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Wow. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Could physical evidence of alien visitation have been hiding in plain sight? 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 This is a very strange piece. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 It is a strange piece for us as well. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Did part of an alien craft fall from space? 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 We acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its composition. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 So we have a real mystery here. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Or are we looking at alien technology made right here on Earth? 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 This defies everything we know. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Definitely. 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 N. 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,800 So long as we have someone else. 16 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:29,480 Two-winged Quiang province, northern Vietnam, 17 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,440 In the early morning hours, three strange metal spheres 18 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,200 are seen falling from the sky. 19 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,080 Witnesses report that one of the spheres 20 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,880 seemed to be flying in a mysterious pattern 21 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,760 before crashing to Earth and making a loud thunder-like sound. 22 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:56,840 Witnesses saw these spherical-shaped metallic balls, 23 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,080 which are recovered by the Vietnamese military. 24 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,640 We have photographs of them, 25 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,720 but we don't have whatever the objects were. 26 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,800 Now, of course, the big question is, 27 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,120 could they be connected to the UFO phenomenon? 28 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,760 Numerous similar spheres were seen in Spain in 2015 29 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,840 and in Africa in 2011. 30 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,240 The skeptic would argue that this is just simply space debris 31 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,360 and nothing else. 32 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,760 But what's particularly intriguing is that in March 1974, 33 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,800 very strange sphere was found at Fort George Island in Florida. 34 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,400 It was found by the Bets family. 35 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,680 On March 26, 1974, on a remote piece of land 36 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,120 in Fort George Island, Florida, 37 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,960 owned by Jerry and Antoine Bets, 38 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,280 a wildfire broke out in the middle of the night, 39 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,040 burning acres of brush. 40 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,520 The cause of the fire is unknown. 41 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,640 But the next day, as the family was investigating the damage, 42 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,320 they came upon a strange object, 43 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:10,520 a metal sphere. 44 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,120 Jerry Bets and her son, Terry, went out there, 45 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,960 and Terry sees this metallic-looking ball 46 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,520 in the ground there. 47 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,360 And he picks it up and shows it to his mother, 48 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,480 and they take it back to the house. 49 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,320 And a couple of weeks went by, 50 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,920 and Terry had the ball on a table next to his bed. 51 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,360 And he took his guitar out. 52 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,560 He started strumming it, and the ball started vibrating. 53 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,000 I was about 10 or 11, and one night they pulled it out. 54 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,880 I think it was a mayonnaise lid out, 55 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,440 and we were holding it in different places on the sphere, 56 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,920 and it would be magnetized and stick in some areas 57 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,000 and not in others. 58 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,840 I can't remember which household members said, 59 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,280 well, watch this, and they walked past it. 60 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,440 It was sitting on the carpeted floor, 61 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,240 and it followed them and moved as they did. 62 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:11,840 They took a few steps and turned, 63 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,280 and it rolled right behind them into a stop. 64 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,800 I had never seen anything like it before. 65 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,800 The bed sphere began to make headlines in April of 1974. 66 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,040 One of the first to break the story 67 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,920 was a young reporter named Ron Kivit, 68 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,440 who conducted an exclusive interview with Jerry Betts 69 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,600 just after she had made her amazing discovery. 70 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,800 When you found it, was it just lying flat on top of the ground? 71 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,520 It was lying on the ground, it's not a lot, but we're hearing. 72 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:45,360 Right. 73 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,360 We ain't supposed to make a lot of room, right now. 74 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,200 Mm-hmm. 75 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,280 And then we noticed that Jeff Friver, 76 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,400 who got the best description of this, 77 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,880 that if the giant gyroscope says there's 78 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,440 these vibrating and clivering regions, 79 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,840 and you put it on a flat surface. 80 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,200 Mm-hmm, right, Steve. 81 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,920 That was a very tough, all-in-the-connected. 82 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,080 I could imagine you would. 83 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,640 In February of 2017, investigative journalist 84 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,600 Linda Moulton Howe traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, 85 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,760 just 20 miles from the site, where the Betts family 86 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,840 made their incredible discovery. 87 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:21,720 Hi, Ron. 88 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,800 Hi, Linda. 89 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,920 Nice to meet you. 90 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:24,760 Nice to meet you. 91 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,880 Yes, thank you. 92 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,360 She arranged to meet with Ron Kivit 93 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,160 to get a firsthand account of his experience 94 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,080 with this bizarre object. 95 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,120 And you've actually held this silver spoon. 96 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,080 I have actually held it all. 97 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,120 Right. 98 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,600 Talk about what happened. 99 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,160 I'm so curious. 100 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,520 You get to their house. 101 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,680 How was the Betts sphere introduced? 102 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,120 How did they show you? 103 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,600 The ball was on a coffee table, a glass-top coffee table, 104 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,880 in a four-year, much like this, a little bit larger. 105 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,320 But it was wind-solving around almost like an atrium. 106 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,840 And I said, you know, can I pick it up? 107 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:06,000 Jerry said, oh, sure. 108 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,280 So I picked it up. 109 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,600 And it was heavier than I anticipated it to be. 110 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:12,920 About 20 pounds, right? 111 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:13,760 That's what they said. 112 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,480 Yeah, about 20 pounds. 113 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,520 The ball had a much rougher texture to it 114 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,440 than I anticipated. 115 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,280 And if you move it, you could hear a very faint tinkling 116 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:23,880 inside it. 117 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:28,600 It wasn't a hum or a buzz. 118 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,640 It was that tink, tink, tink. 119 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,560 Terry had the ball in his room. 120 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,800 And he began to notice that even when the ball wasn't moving, 121 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,200 he could hear this tinkling sound. 122 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,200 Well, it would suggest. 123 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,160 It was conscious or was downloading, 124 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,960 uploading information from something 125 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,760 that it was involved with. 126 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,880 Well, the consciousness of it, I decided 127 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,320 I wanted to take the ball outside and get 128 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,720 some pictures of what natural light. 129 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,880 The ball was back on the table. 130 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,080 So we all get up to leave to go find the spot to shoot it in. 131 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,800 And the ball rolled all the way to the edge and stopped. 132 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,120 And it was just like, don't forget me. 133 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,840 That's when the hair stood up on my arms. 134 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,840 After observing the strange behavior of the sphere 135 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,480 for several weeks, the Bets family 136 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,880 decided to submit it to the military for examination. 137 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,760 It got interest from the Navy. 138 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,400 It got interest from the United States government. 139 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,360 And during the testing of it, they found 140 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,520 it was made of a stainless steel metallic alloy, 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,120 specifically the Ferris alloy number 431. 142 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,840 And then when it was analyzed with X-ray spectrography, 143 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,560 the interior of the sphere was hollow 144 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,600 and had smaller spherical objects, 145 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,400 which were analyzed to have an atomic weight of 140. 146 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,760 Now, the largest atomic weight that we see in nature 147 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,880 is uranium, which is a 92. 148 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,040 So these smaller, super heavy balls 149 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,160 that were inside with an atomic weight of 140 150 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,640 caused certain scientists to speculate 151 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,880 that if anyone actually tried to drill inside the sphere, 152 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,920 that it could be the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon, 153 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,120 that those elements could go into criticality 154 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,520 and create a massive explosion. 155 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:34,360 So the point is this sphere has very peculiar properties 156 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,240 that suggests that it is, in fact, some sort of artificially 157 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,560 intelligent technology. 158 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:47,000 Do you think that it is a viable hypothesis that at least 159 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,800 the Navy from the work that they did knew this is not 160 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:51,640 terrestrial? 161 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,200 Oh, absolutely. 162 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,520 And it was after the Navy examination 163 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,520 that everything seemed to basically come to a halt. 164 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,840 Correct. 165 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,440 I never got a real clarification on what happened, you know. 166 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,240 But now the ball has disappeared. 167 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,200 Is it possible the Navy discovered evidence 168 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,280 that the bed sphere is of extraterrestrial origin 169 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:26,080 and secretly confiscated it for further examination? 170 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,240 Jerry and her family are not interested in talking 171 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,000 about the sphere anymore. 172 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:36,080 Jerry still want to discuss what happened with it. 173 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,920 Maybe nobody will ever see it again. 174 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,840 That's a possibility, you know? 175 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,600 I don't know. 176 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,520 To date, no one has been able to locate the sphere 177 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,880 or explain what it was. 178 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,760 But perhaps further clues may be found 179 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,320 by returning to the very site where the mysterious bed 180 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,320 sphere was first discovered. 181 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:10,840 Talking with the bed's family, you 182 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,720 thought you're dealing with really honest people who 183 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,680 are very puzzled about what this sphere is. 184 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:20,720 When I first talked to them, I was convinced 185 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,760 that all of them were telling me the truth. 186 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:29,840 For George Island, Florida, February 3, 2017, 187 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,120 investigative journalist Linda Moulton-Howe 188 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,880 is traveling with reporter Ron Kivit. 189 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,960 To the site where a mysterious metal sphere that 190 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,520 displayed the uncanny ability to move on its own 191 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,880 was first discovered in 1974 by the bed's family 192 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,720 following a wildfire on their property. 193 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,480 This would have been an area where the fire would have been. 194 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,040 We're getting closer. 195 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,440 Now, this is the kind of wood stick would have found in it. 196 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,560 But all of this here, you can see where the palmetto's. 197 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:04,400 It's thick. 198 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,440 It's hard to go through. 199 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,520 In fact, it's almost amazing. 200 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,440 Without the fire, they would never have found it. 201 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,680 Gosh. 202 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,640 So there's the mystery of what caused the fire. 203 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,720 How long had it been there? 204 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,240 What is it intended to be found? 205 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,920 Skeptics of the bed sphere's story 206 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,400 claim it was part of a sculpture that fell from an artist's truck. 207 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,200 So this is what it would have all looked like before the fire. 208 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,680 But Ron Kivit says this is impossible. 209 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,080 Since the sphere was discovered in the middle 210 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,000 of a densely forested area, 20 miles from any stretch 211 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,800 of main highway. 212 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,280 You know, now that I'm here where the bed's family found 213 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:55,040 that sphere, it's just so clear that any of the stories 214 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,680 about an artist over on the road having something falling off 215 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:02,360 a truck and rolling through all of this thick palmetto. 216 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:03,200 It's impossible. 217 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:04,600 Impossible. 218 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,440 And the whole idea that they would never have found it 219 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:10,600 if there had not been a fire. 220 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,120 The fire was integral to finding the ball. 221 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,560 What do you think, talking with Terry and Jerry? 222 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:18,920 I know they found it. 223 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,480 I know how they found it. 224 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,560 They knew right away after that first incident or so 225 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,240 that they had something special. 226 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,040 If it was a hoax, somebody put it there. 227 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,720 If it was not a hoax, somebody put it there. 228 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,640 Or something. 229 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,320 Or something. 230 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,600 If this mysterious sphere was of extraterrestrial origin, 231 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,080 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, 232 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,400 might it have been intentionally placed on the bed's property 233 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,600 and even have started the fire that 234 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,360 resulted in its discovery? 235 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,160 Throughout history, similar spheres 236 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,320 have appeared in artwork that dates back hundreds of years 237 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,240 and are often depicted as coming from the heavens. 238 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,280 In Christian art, you'll see these incredible examples 239 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,880 of angels holding bowling ball-sized spheres 240 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,760 in their hands. 241 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,160 In other examples, Jesus himself holds 242 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,800 a metallic sphere. 243 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,480 God is portrayed holding a sphere. 244 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,720 So when you go back to the Betts family 245 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,120 and compare it with what we know about these spheres 246 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,200 in Christian mythology, you have to ask, 247 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,360 are we dealing with something of ancient origin 248 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,960 or possibly of extraterrestrial origin? 249 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,760 Where is that sphere today? 250 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,760 My wager, one of our government agencies 251 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,600 has this bet sphere. 252 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,240 And our government has probably learned a great deal 253 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,320 about a sphere that has self-activating software 254 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:05,640 and maybe has been sending and receiving the whole time. 255 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,920 The concept of a self-activating metal sphere 256 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,640 with the ability to communicate is not as far fetched 257 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,520 as it may sound. 258 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,800 In fact, science is on the verge of discovering 259 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,000 a similar technology today. 260 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:25,400 Beijing, China, March 2015. 261 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,640 Here at Tsinghua University, 262 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,680 scientists announced the creation of a self-fueled robot 263 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,200 in the form of a small liquid metal sphere 264 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,480 that is capable of shape-shifting. 265 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,920 When energy is applied from the outside externally, 266 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,080 the metal would change shape. 267 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,960 But they also noticed that it could also produce 268 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,360 its own power supply for about an hour. 269 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,240 And because of this action, it would move too. 270 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,280 And of course, most people are concerned 271 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,400 using it in the field of robotics. 272 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:01,960 Just imagine where that can go. 273 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,840 We're seeing the first steps that we are making 274 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,000 towards having these types of exotic alloys 275 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,880 that could in the future give us the ability 276 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,000 to emulate the type of extraterrestrial technology 277 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,680 that we already see in out-of-place artifacts. 278 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,080 In addition to creating shape-shifting robots, 279 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,280 this new technology may be used by doctors 280 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,480 to make repairs inside the body without performing surgery. 281 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,920 It could also lead to fully flexible electronics, 282 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,440 as well as major advances in artificial intelligence. 283 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,320 Some ancient astronaut theorists proposed 284 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,160 that it was a similar technology that powered the Betsphere. 285 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,800 This is a possible explanation for what could be going on 286 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,880 with the super-heavy balls inside the Betsphere. 287 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,480 They may be using some sort of similar technology 288 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,360 in order to roll themselves around inside, 289 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,720 which then allows the ball to be able to roll around 290 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,520 much like a self-propelled bowling ball. 291 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,280 So with these new discoveries, 292 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:15,920 we now have a plausible explanation 293 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,680 for how the Betsphere was able to roll around. 294 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,480 As modern scientists develop new alloys, 295 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,480 we have to wonder if these artifacts like the Betsphere, 296 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:33,640 they are perhaps there for us to examine 297 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,680 and retro-engineer and use and create for ourselves 298 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,560 and our own space industry. 299 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,200 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 300 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,920 that objects like the Betsphere 301 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,040 have been purposely left behind by extraterrestrials 302 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,760 for thousands of years in order to help 303 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,520 in the development of mankind's technological evolution. 304 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,760 As further proof, they point to mysterious metal ingots 305 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,880 recently recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily 306 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,880 that are unlike any other metal known to exist on Earth. 307 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,040 Sicily, 2015. 308 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,840 Archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa 309 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,600 excavates a shipwreck less than a mile off the coast, 310 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,240 which has remained undisturbed for more than 2600 years. 311 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,240 His team dredges up an ancient payload of 39 metal ingots. 312 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,400 Interestingly, spectrographic analysis 313 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,440 of the recovered alloy reveals the compound 314 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,440 is unlike anything ever found in the ancient or modern world. 315 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,120 The interesting part about this 316 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:59,240 is the composition of the ingots that they found. 317 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,720 The metal is 80% copper and 20% zinc. 318 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:05,760 There was other things found in it, 319 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,280 but that's the majority of the opposition. 320 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,960 Now, zinc only occurs in nature as spallarai. 321 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,960 It's a zinc sulfur complex. 322 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,480 In order to create zinc, 323 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,520 which didn't come around until about a thousand years ago, 324 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,880 you have to actually process the zinc out of this sulfite 325 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,320 that they didn't have that technology back then. 326 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:35,160 What was someone doing blending together copper, zinc, 327 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,120 lead, nickel, iron? 328 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,920 This is a complex alloy. 329 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,640 This is nothing easy to do. 330 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,760 It suggests the possibility 331 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,960 that it could have special electrical or energetic properties 332 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,120 that we don't even know about. 333 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:51,080 People would not be expected 334 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,840 to be making such a complex alloy back then. 335 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,760 How is it possible that such an advanced alloy 336 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,800 was manufactured over 2,600 years ago, 337 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,720 centuries before man had the technology 338 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,440 to manipulate elements like zinc into metals? 339 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,840 And what was its purpose? 340 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,080 Based on the composition of this alloy, 341 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,800 scientists believe what they have found is auracalcum, 342 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,960 a metal associated with the legendary continent of Atlantis. 343 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,840 According to Plato's fourth century dialogues, 344 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,840 the Timaeus and Cridius, 345 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,840 Atlantis possessed a power and technology 346 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,840 greater than any other civilization on Earth. 347 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,840 It was founded and ruled over by the Greek god Poseidon, 348 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,840 whose temple was covered in a precious metal called auracalcum, 349 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,840 which translates to mountain copper. 350 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,840 The composition of the alloy is not specified by Plato, 351 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,840 but based on its electrical properties, color and luster, 352 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,840 scientists suggest that if it really did exist, 353 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,840 it most likely consisted of copper mixed primarily with zinc, 354 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,840 just like the metal found in the shipwreck. 355 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,840 It was said that the temple of Poseidon on Atlantis 356 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,840 flashed with the red light of auracalcum. 357 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,840 The copper tint of this metal caught the attention of the seekers 358 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,840 that came to this sacred place. 359 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,840 This is not just an attractive color. 360 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,840 This has spiritual implications. 361 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,840 There was something about this metal 362 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,840 that was said to resonate with the divine. 363 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,840 Perhaps it was its origin that it had come from heaven. 364 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,840 It fell out of the sky. 365 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,840 According to Plato's story, 366 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,840 the Greek god Cadmus, son of Poseidon, 367 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,840 came down from Mount Olympus 368 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,840 and gave auracalcum to the people of Atlantis. 369 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,840 An important figure in early Greek mythology was Cadmus, 370 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,840 a divine character, the first hero, 371 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,840 fifth in the lineage from Zeus of the Greek gods. 372 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,840 It was Cadmus that brought the making of bronze. 373 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,840 He knew how to make alloys, special metals, 374 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,840 which in the early days of civilization 375 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,840 was the beginning of technology. 376 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,840 So Cadmus is the one who shows us the divine nature of metalwork 377 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,840 and gives this as a gift to the generations. 378 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,840 Why are we so quick to dismiss the underlying stories in those myths? 379 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,840 Those stories talk about extraterrestrials 380 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,840 coming and visiting our culture. 381 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,840 They talk about gods that walked among us 382 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,840 and interacted with humans, 383 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,840 but with a severely advanced technology 384 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,840 beyond anything that we have today. 385 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,840 Ancient astronaut theory says that the legends of these Greek gods 386 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,840 are not just mythological, 387 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,840 but they're actually rooted in actual events. 388 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,840 Is it possible that the Greek gods, 389 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,840 or extraterrestrial beings, 390 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,840 are ancestors witnessed descending from the sky? 391 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,840 As ancient astronaut theorists suggest. 392 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:20,840 And does the discovery of Orycalcum 393 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,840 provide physical evidence 394 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,840 that the legendary continent of Atlantis truly existed? 395 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,840 These artifacts could allow you to conclude 396 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,840 that the continent of Atlantis was real, 397 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,840 that it sank, 398 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,840 and that it possessed high technology 399 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,840 before it met its tragic fate. 400 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,840 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 401 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,840 discoveries like the metal ingots found off the coast of Sicily 402 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,840 provide evidence that extraterrestrials 403 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,840 have been fostering mankind's technological evolution 404 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,840 for thousands of years. 405 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,840 And they suggest that even more compelling evidence can be found 406 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,840 by examining a mysterious artifact 407 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,840 discovered in the tomb of King Tut. 408 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,840 Cairo, Egypt. 409 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,840 At the Egyptian Museum, 410 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,840 an entire floor is dedicated to the incredible treasures 411 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,840 found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun. 412 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Among them is a metal dagger 413 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,840 that has baffled both scientists and archaeologists 414 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,840 because it appears to be made of iron, 415 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,840 but dates back to at least 1322 BC. 416 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,840 More than a century before, Egypt's iron age. 417 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,840 On May 20th, 2016, 418 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,840 a new layer was added to the mystery. 419 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,840 Researchers from the Journal of Meteorics and Planetary Science 420 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,840 announced that they had finally determined the composition 421 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,840 of King Tut's dagger. 422 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,840 After detailed analysis, 423 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,840 it was confirmed that the blade is indeed iron, 424 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,840 forged from metal that originated not on Earth, 425 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,840 but in the stars. 426 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,840 Meteorites are very difficult to fashion into objects. 427 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,840 Anybody, even today, who's ever worked with a meteorite 428 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,840 will tell you that because of the high nickel content, 429 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,840 they're very, very brittle and very difficult to work with. 430 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,840 Considering the difficulties of working with meteoric metal, 431 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,840 even with today's technology, 432 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,840 how did metal urges 3,300 years ago 433 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,840 perform such tasks? 434 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,840 This dagger is completely out of place 435 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,840 in the fact that unlike simple objects like beads, 436 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,840 they can be simply hammered out and rolled, 437 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,840 this has been perfected to a point where it has no hammer marks on it. 438 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,840 It's completely smooth. 439 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,840 It has a nice edge all the way around on it. 440 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,840 It almost looks as if it had been cast, 441 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,840 but in order to achieve that, 442 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,840 you would have to reach temperatures of 3,000 degrees. 443 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,840 In order to melt that meteorite, 444 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,840 and then of course add the necessary fluxes 445 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,840 to get the impurities out and then cast the blade, 446 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,840 which brings up even more questions for the researchers. 447 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,840 If they were smelting iron, 448 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,840 it would change our whole outlook on Egyptian history. 449 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,840 What could explain the presence of this mysterious metal dagger 450 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,840 in King Tut's tomb, 451 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,840 when no other similar artifacts have been found in Egypt 452 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,840 dating back to this period? 453 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,840 Might Egyptian metallurgists have had help 454 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,840 working with this difficult compound? 455 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,840 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 456 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,840 and suggest stories found throughout the ancient world 457 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,840 reveal that extraterrestrials taught our ancestors 458 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,840 the secrets of metallurgy 459 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,840 in order to help move society forward. 460 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,840 True metallurgy in the sense of putting different metals together 461 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,840 as alloys dates back to maybe 3,800 BC, 462 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,840 when bronze was first discovered as an alloy of tin and copper. 463 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,840 Maybe the second most important development 464 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,840 after the harnessing of fire. 465 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,840 As we think of modern times and our emphasis on technology here, 466 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,840 it is the sacred roots to all of that. 467 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,840 Stories emerged out of all the religious systems 468 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,840 about the gods as metal workers. 469 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,840 Hephaestus in the Greek imagination 470 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,840 made the weapons and the armor for the gods. 471 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,840 In the Celtic imagination, it was the great goddess Brigid 472 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,840 who made beautiful and wonderful and powerful things 473 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,840 into metal and then into fabricated form. 474 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,840 In Japanese, Lord Kanayago came to earth 475 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,840 to teach the people metalworking. 476 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,840 There seems to be a ubiquitous understanding from ancient cultures 477 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,840 that metallurgy is from the heavens. 478 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,840 Could there be some tide that in the past 479 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,840 certain abilities were originally brought to man, 480 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,840 possibly by extraterrestrials, 481 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,840 and things we would create had a certain energy or myth about them 482 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840 that still is alive today? 483 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,840 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 484 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,840 the most compelling of these stories 485 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,840 originates in the same place as King Tut's mysterious dagger. 486 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:49,840 Egypt, where they worshiped a sacred object called the Benben stone. 487 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,840 Ancient Egyptian texts describe the Benben stone 488 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,840 as a meteoric iron object that belongs to the heavens. 489 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:05,840 The original Benben stone mysteriously disappeared, 490 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,840 but many ancient depictions of it remain. 491 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,840 The Benben stone has a very strange origin. 492 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:22,840 It is thought that the Benben stone descended from the sky like a firebird. 493 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,840 If you look at the Benben stone, 494 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:33,840 sometimes it is described or depicted with people coming out of this stone. 495 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,840 Now, to me, this looks very similar to a lunar module. 496 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:45,840 If you have the idea that this firebird is descending from the sky with fire and smoke, 497 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,840 well, if you look at a rocket descending, these are firebirds. 498 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:57,840 So our ancestors perhaps witnessed some type of a craft descending from the sky, 499 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,840 out of which these extraterrestrials came, 500 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,840 which set in motion our technological evolution. 501 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,840 According to Egyptian texts, 502 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,840 their gods were extraterrestrial beings that came to Earth 503 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,840 and taught our ancestors the secrets of metalwork. 504 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:23,840 If true, might this be why we find isolated examples of advanced and sacred metallurgy 505 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,840 occurring long before mankind was known to have grasped such technology? 506 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:35,840 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that hidden away 507 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,840 in the storage area of a small museum in Eastern Europe 508 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,840 is even more astounding evidence, 509 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,840 the remnants of what might be an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 510 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,840 Transylvania, Romania, 1970. 511 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:01,840 Workers digging a trench along the banks of the Meurs River unearthed two giant bones 512 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,840 and with them, a mysterious metal object buried 35 feet beneath the surface. 513 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,840 The discovery brings the project to a halt 514 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,840 as the crew takes their findings to a nearby museum. 515 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,840 This strange object, known today as the Wedge of Ayur, 516 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,840 continues to baffle archaeologists because it is an aluminum alloy 517 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:33,840 that appears to have been made thousands of years before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal. 518 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,840 It was 10 meters in depth, associated with some bones, 519 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,840 which they later identified as woolly mammoth bones. 520 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,840 If they were contemporary, all of them, then they were in use sometime in the period 521 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,840 when the Andertals roamed the Earth, so they were extinct 40,000 years ago, 522 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,840 and they must be older than that. 523 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,840 The Wedge was analyzed three times, to my knowledge. 524 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,840 The main metal in its composition is aluminum. 525 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,840 Humans didn't really start working with aluminum until well into the 1800s. 526 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,840 So when you look at this Wedge and you analyze it, 527 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,840 it really has most of the modern properties we would associate with aluminum. 528 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,840 This incredible metal artifact was discovered at a time when Romania 529 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,840 was behind the iron curtain of the former Soviet Union. 530 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:35,840 For decades, government officials refused to reveal where the Wedge of Ayur was being held, 531 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,840 even after the fall of the USSR. 532 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,840 But its location has recently come to light, 533 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,840 and in January of 2017, 534 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:56,840 ancient astronaut theory pioneer Eric Von Daniken and his protege, Georgiosuchlos, 535 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,840 sought out the Wedge to see it for themselves. 536 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,840 On January 18th, 2017, 537 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,840 at the National History Museum of Transylvania, 538 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,840 ancient astronaut theorists Georgiosuchlos and Eric Von Daniken 539 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,840 were offered a rare opportunity to get a first-hand look at the Wedge of Ayur. 540 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,840 Museum curator Anna Gruya has taken it out of a storage locker, 541 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,840 where it has been deliberately hidden from the public since the early 1970s. 542 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,840 Okay, I'm just going to put my gloves on. 543 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,840 This is great. 544 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,840 So this is it? 545 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,840 Oh, okay. 546 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,840 This is strange. 547 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:52,840 It's very heavy. 548 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,840 Georgiosuchlos, take it. It's heavy. 549 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:56,840 Wow. 550 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,840 This was found at a depth of 10 meters, 551 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,840 which is about 30 feet in the ground. 552 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:04,840 Yes. 553 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,840 Yes, and here this is where they took the sample out, 554 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,840 and here to make the analysis. 555 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,840 And here you see two pieces that are broken off, sort of. 556 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,840 So maybe it was attached or something. 557 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,840 But very strange. 558 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,840 So what does the museum have to say about this? 559 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,840 This is a very strange piece. 560 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,840 It is a strange piece for us as well. 561 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:31,840 As historians, we do not consider it a historical object that we're used to. 562 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,840 We don't know what it was used for, 563 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:41,840 and we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its composition as well. 564 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,840 So for what can you use this? 565 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,840 It looks like a hammer or a shuffle, 566 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,840 but Georgiosuchlos, what is the word in English? 567 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,840 Bacchushovel. 568 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,840 Oh, an excavator tooth. 569 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:54,840 Well, it looks like this. 570 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,840 It could have been something like this. 571 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,840 But these excavator tubes are never made out of aluminium. 572 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:01,840 No, it's too weak. 573 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,840 They are made out of steel, especially hard steel. 574 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,840 So it could not be that. 575 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,840 So we have a real mystery here. 576 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,840 But do you see this patina over this whole object? 577 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,840 And this creates another problem. 578 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,840 Yes. 579 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,840 Because you cannot fake a patina. 580 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,840 It's impossible to artificially create a patina. 581 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,840 The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds 582 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,840 that forms on the surface of the metal during exposure to atmospheric elements. 583 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,840 The older the object, the thicker the patina layer will be. 584 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,840 It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years, 585 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,840 for a thick layer of patina, as this apparently is, for it to develop. 586 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,840 Yes, we agree. 587 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,840 There are two basic problems. 588 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:59,840 One, that aluminium was not invented at the age when we presumed this was in use. 589 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,840 And second, it's the patina, as you noted. 590 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,840 Which speaks for the date, for the age of it. 591 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,840 So we still have a mystery here. 592 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,840 Thank you very much for showing us this object, 593 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,840 because I know that there was a time when nobody knew where it was, 594 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,840 somewhere in a box in the back, 595 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,840 which means present-day archaeology has a problem. 596 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840 And they're doing magnificent work. 597 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,840 But when something like this comes along, 598 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,840 we should investigate this and not put it in a box in the back. 599 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:32,840 Definitely. 600 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,840 It did depend on mentalities and official position. 601 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,840 It isn't currently exhibited. 602 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:47,840 Because we have to admit as historians that we do not know more details about it. 603 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,840 For us, it's just baffling at this point. 604 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,840 But taking the logic further, 605 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:58,840 this conflicting information could have just two solutions so far. 606 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,840 One, that it is really not so old, 607 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,840 and the context is irrelevant, 608 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,840 and the patina was somehow produced in special circumstances. 609 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,840 So it's a new object, strangely preserved, let's say. 610 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,840 And the second option is, of course, that it's not of terrestrial origin. 611 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,840 In all of your adventures, 612 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,840 how does this compare to some of the other things that are inexplicable? 613 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,840 I am helpless. I have no idea. 614 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,840 That says it all right there. 615 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,840 Very bizarre. 616 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:32,840 Bizarre. 617 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,840 I've known about this thing since the early 1990s. 618 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:47,840 And I have to tell you that looking at it in person was a dream come true. 619 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,840 And it's a very strange thing. 620 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:53,840 I mean, how do you explain this? 621 00:36:53,840 --> 00:37:00,840 It certainly looks as if it was part of a larger object. 622 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,840 And the question is, was it a component of a device? 623 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,840 Was it a component of something larger? 624 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,840 If the wedge of iod really is over 40,000 years old, 625 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,840 then who made it? 626 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,840 And what was it used for? 627 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,840 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe 628 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,840 they may have the answer. 629 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,840 An aeronautical engineer who saw the iod wedge 630 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:29,840 looked at it and said, 631 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:34,840 that's a piece of a landing gear for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. 632 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,840 Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge 633 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,840 and surmised that it's possible that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft. 634 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:50,840 Could the wedge of iod really be a remnant of an extraterrestrial craft? 635 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,840 Perhaps similar to the one some say, 636 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,840 the Egyptians represented with the Ben-Benz Stone. 637 00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,840 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 638 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,840 and suggest evidence recently recovered from a meteorite in Russia. 639 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,840 Maybe another gift from our alien ancestors, 640 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,840 one that propels us towards the next great technological leap. 641 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,840 The New York Times 642 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,840 Siberia, Russia, 1979 643 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,840 A meteorite crashes into the Koryak Mountains. 644 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:32,840 Nearly four decades later, in December 2016, 645 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,840 researchers studying pieces of the meteorite at the University of Florence, 646 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,840 Caltech and Princeton, 647 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,840 announced that it has brought with it an incredible rare metal formation 648 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,840 called a quasi-crystal. 649 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,840 This quasi-crystal features 60 points of rotational symmetry 650 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,840 made up of aluminum, copper and iron. 651 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,840 It is an exotic pattern that has never before been found in nature 652 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,840 and could lead to the next major technological leap. 653 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,840 This thing should not exist, 654 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,840 and yet there it is on this meteorite. 655 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:19,840 Now, quasi-crystal alloys violate the known laws of physics completely, 656 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,840 but what we have heard from whistleblowers 657 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,840 is that the surfaces of extraterrestrial vehicles, 658 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,840 such as the one that crashed in Roswell, 659 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,840 are made of quasi-crystal alloys, 660 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:35,840 and certain quasi-crystal alloys, when electrified, generate anti-gravity, 661 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:41,840 extraterrestrial intelligences may have been wanting us to find these quasi-crystals, 662 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:46,840 and it shows that there could be a whole new world of technology waiting for us to unlock, 663 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,840 and what we're looking at is a very likely possibility 664 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,840 that these out-of-place artifacts are just some of the table scraps 665 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,840 from an extraterrestrial civilization that had way more advanced stuff than that. 666 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,840 Are extraterrestrials giving mankind the tools needed 667 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,840 to reach the next level in our technological evolution? 668 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,840 And if so, where are they leading us? 669 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,840 The stories of these very powerful ancient alloys 670 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,840 suggest that these are pathways back to our origins, 671 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,840 that these are ways that we can connect with our own life, 672 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:32,840 that these are ways that we can connect with our original extraterrestrial visitors, 673 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,840 and also point a way forward for us, 674 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,840 because as we begin to understand these technologies, 675 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,840 perhaps one day we'll even be able to duplicate them. 676 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,840 As modern scientists develop new alloys, 677 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,840 we have to wonder if these ancient artifacts of strange alloys 678 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:58,840 aren't extraterrestrial artifacts that are perhaps there for us 679 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:04,840 to examine and retro-engineer and use and create for ourselves 680 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,840 and our own space industry. 681 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,840 There is no question that we are getting closer and closer 682 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,840 to whatever technology the extraterrestrials possessed. 683 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,840 Are the unexplained metal artifacts found all over the world 684 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,840 proof that we have been visited by other worldly beings? 685 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:32,840 And did extraterrestrials teach our ancestors secrets of metallurgy 686 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,840 that we are just now beginning to develop and reproduce? 687 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,840 Perhaps by examining these strange metal objects, 688 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,840 we will begin to not only understand our past, 689 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:55,840 but also be better prepared to face our ultimate destiny.