A lot of eyewitness accounts have accumulated that in the bowels of the earth miners extract not only ore and copper. The stories that the remains of prehistoric animals are being dug up in mines are no longer surprising, but there are much more interesting artifacts.
In 1973 on about. Bulla near Baku, formed by a mud volcano, geologist Y. Mamedov discovered analogs of the "Salzburg parallelepiped". They were cushion-shaped stone balls, ringed with grooves, of about the same size. These balls were a product of volcanic activity, the rapid crystallization of which, as a result of a sharp cooling, broke the shell, after which grooves appeared.
An opinion was expressed about a single mechanism for the formation of an object from Austria and balls from Baku, but the conditions for the formation of layers of brown coal are impossible in conditions of volcanic activity, and balls from about. Bulls were made of stone, while the parallelepiped was iron. There is still no consensus, everyone is confused by the age of the find.
The next NIO is the discovery, in 1844, of a steel nail in the Kinguda Quarry in Northern Britain, embedded about an inch with a head in hard pressed sandstone. The tip of this nail, almost completely eaten away by rust, protruded out into a layer of clay.
This discovery was reported to the British Association for the Advancement of Science by the naturalist Sir David Brewster - a famous and serious scientist, whose sincerity no one could doubt. Unfortunately, neither the depth nor the age of the sandstone is known. However, according to the conditions of formation of this rock, this is again, at least, several million years.
In the same Kingudi, in a piece of quartzite rock, a metal NIO was found in the form of a bucket handle 23 cm long. Experts have found that it could have fallen into the rock 10-12 million years ago. Another "bucket handle" made of gold was found in a piece of quartzite by a physician in California.
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In 1869, in Treasure City, Nevada, a metal screw about 5 cm long was found in a piece of feldspar mined at great depths. In 1851, gold digger Hiram Witt brought home to Springfield a piece of gold-bearing quartz the size of a man's fist.
While showing his loved ones, Witt accidentally dropped it, the piece split and inside it was a nail slightly touched by rust. In the 16th century, the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, Don Francisco de Toledo, kept an 18 cm long steel nail in his office, firmly cemented in the rock. This nail was found in a Peruvian mine. Critics of the artificial origin of these objects explain their appearance by natural natural processes: due to a special kind of crystallization of mineral solutions or melts; due to the replacement of plant residues with pyrite or the formation of pyrite rods in the voids between crystals.
However, pyrite is iron sulphide, and, as you know, at the fracture has a straw-yellow color, which is why it is often mistaken for gold, and a cubic structure, clearly visible to the naked eye. The descriptions of the finds clearly speak of iron "nails", sometimes rusty or slightly touched by rust. If these were pyrite formations, then the discoverers would most likely call them gold, not iron. Miners in the Donbass coal mine in 1968 distinguished a metal rod from a real one, which turned out to be a pyrite formation.
Sometimes, nail-like NIOs are mistaken for fulgurites (thunder arrows) formed from a lightning strike in rocks, or for melted fragments of meteorites. But finding the trail of a lightning strike many millions of years ago is very, very problematic, not to mention a melted meteorite. The often found rod-like NIOs are mistaken for the skeletons of belemnites, invertebrates of marine animals that lived in the Jurassic (195 Ma) and Cretaceous (145 Ma) periods. They had a cylindrical, conical ipi cigar shape, reaching 10-20 and even 50 cm in length. The people called the finds of belemnite skeletons "devil's fingers". They have a pronounced skeletal shape and it is impossible to confuse them with anything else. Moreover, belemnites are found only in sedimentary rocks, but never in bedrock, such as feldspar or quartz. However, NIOs are not limited to nail-like objects.
So, in December 1852, an iron tool of an unusual type was discovered in a piece of coal mined near Glasgow. A certain John Buchanan presented this find to the Scottish Antiquities Society and accompanied it with affidavits given under oath by the five workers involved in the discovery. D. Buchanan was discouraged by the discovery in such ancient strata of a tool that undoubtedly came out of human hands.
Another NIO was discovered in June 1851 near the American city of Dorchester. During the blasting work, among the fragments of the rock, two pieces of a metal object were found, torn apart by the explosion. When they were connected, it turned out a bell-shaped vessel 11.5 cm high and 16.5 cm wide at the base, and 6.4 cm at the top. The thickness of the walls was 0.3 cm. The color of the metal resembled zinc or an alloy with the addition of silver …
On the surface of the NIE, six images of a flower or a bouquet, covered with pure silver, were distinguished, and around the lower part of the "bell" there was a vine or a wreath, also covered with silver. The NIO was recovered from the rock that was at a depth of 4.5 m before the explosion. According to the Science American magazine, no one doubted the authenticity of the find.
In 1871, in Chillicote, Illinois, several flat round bronze objects similar to coins were found while driving a mine at a depth of 42 m. Even earlier, in 1851, in the same Illinois, similar copper shafts were found at a depth of 36 m.
Summing up the found NIOs, it should be noted that both their defenders and critics make a big mistake in their interpretation. When identifying unfamiliar things, it is common for a person to adjust their appearance to already known objects.
But the point is, we don't know what it is. These objects just look like nails, bells, snuff boxes and so on that we know, but in fact they are not. We have not yet been able to comprehend their purpose.
