Romania 1974. In a sand quarry on the banks of the Mures River, a team of workers found three small objects buried in fine-grained sand in river sediments. The exact location of the found items is about two kilometers east of the city of Ayuda (Romania) on the eastern edge of the Siebenburger mountain range and 50 kilometers north of Clui Napoc.
The objects found were 10 meters below the surface, under hardened surface sand deposits. A local researcher identified in two finds bones, or parts of bones, while the third object resembled a stone ax in appearance and weight. The researcher sent everything he found to the Archaeological Institute of Clui Napoc.
There the finds were cleared of the bark of hardened sand. The fossil bones were identified as bones from the limbs and molars of a young mastodon. Mastodons - the ancestors of modern elephants - lived on the planet from 23 million to a million years ago. The third object (let's call it the Ayud object) could not be identified, and it was not a stone ax, for it was made of metal.
The object is 20.2 centimeters long. Two holes were drilled in it - of different diameters - and were located at right angles to each other. An oval deformation was noticeable in the lower part of the larger of the holes - apparently this was the result of the fact that a shaft or rod was fastened into the hole. The top and side surfaces were covered in heavy impact marks. Having considered all the details together, the scientists expressed the opinion that the object is part of some kind of specialized machine.
Repeated metallurgical tests only deepened the mystery surrounding the found object. At the Institute for Research and Protection of Nonferrous Ores (Magural City), analyzes were made (by Dr. Niederkorn). Analyzes indicated that the item consisted or was made of a complex metal alloy of twelve different elements in addition to aluminum (the "Ayud object" contained 89% aluminum). A detailed report on metals and chemical analysis is in the dossier of the Center for Russian Ufology Research.
Although aluminum is one of the most abundant elements in the earth's crust, it can only be found in nature in the form of compound compounds. Aluminum was discovered in 1825; for industrial purposes it is mined by electrolysis of ores in a molten state at temperatures between 950 and 970 degrees Celsius.
Only at the beginning of the last century, aluminum began to be produced in quantities required for industry. In the States, for example, aluminum has been produced at the plants of the ALCOA concern since 1883. The Ayud object is also interesting because it is covered with an aluminum oxide film. Oxidation is the process of absorbing oxygen, or the elimination of electrons. Usually, aluminum, when exposed to air, covers itself with a very thin layer of oxide, so that the metal is more resistant to oxidation than, say, iron.
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This layer prevents further oxidation. But on the "Ayud object" the oxide film has a thickness of over a millimeter - nowhere has this been seen before. There is nothing to compare with, but the Romanian scientist believes that such a density could have been created only if the object is more than several hundred thousand years old … One of the metallurgists who investigated the object wrote this: altered structure, as if the other elements of the alloy returned to their crystalline state."
None of the specialists who investigated the "Ayud object" (archaeologists, paleontologists, engineers) could identify it or even establish a resemblance to modern machines or machine components.
One aeronautical engineer put forward an interesting hypothesis: the "Ayud object" is similar to the landing leg-support of a small-sized aircraft, which (like the lunar craft, or "Vikings") was supposed to make a soft landing on the Earth's surface.
This is proved not only by the shape of the "Ayud object", but also by two holes - probably the attachment points for the legs-supports of the descent apparatus; traces of scratches on the bottom and along the edges; and the material itself, lightweight aluminum, which is still used today in the aviation industry, in the construction of spaceships - because of its relatively light weight.
Could it be that "something" (for example, a relatively lightweight remote control probe) flew over the territory of modern Romania millions of years ago? And this “something” landed in the prehistoric valley of Mures, where some accident left the messenger of another mind on our planet forever? Were the fragments of the "probe" washed away, leaving only a broken leg-support, together with the bones of the ancestor of elephants, in the shallow water of the river? Over time, both the leg and the bones were covered with sediments and thus did not disappear, surviving to this day …
In 1992, the Romanian Florian Georgita published a detailed article in the journal Ancient skies about an extraordinary find discovered back in 1974. He saw the "object from Ayud" and scrupulously described it shortly before this object disappeared somewhere. A Romanian scientist expressed his hypotheses about the cosmic origin of a metal part of unknown age and purpose.
In his opinion, it could be part of the chassis of an interplanetary spacecraft. Georgita referred to the point of view of an engineer, an aircraft specialist, who cleverly imagined how the fossil was fixed to a boom. Florian Georgita noticed abrasions and scratches on the surface, indicating significant wear.
Ufologist M. Haesemann in 1994 accidentally fell on the trail of the lost "find from Ayud". He came to the Hungarian city of Debrecen to attend a convention of ufologists and there he received an invitation to speak at a meeting in Cluj, in neighboring Romania. Among the listeners there was a man who volunteered to show Hesemann the "object from Ayud" and kept his promise.
In September 1995, the ufologist was lucky enough to examine and even hold in his hands a nondescript aluminum object from the excavations near Ayud. Thanks to M. Hesemann, we at least know that the amazing object has not disappeared, but is in Romania.
Over the years, scientists have learned practically nothing new about this thing. It was not possible to determine the exact age of the metal item. It is absolutely unknown who smelted aluminum in prehistoric times and made this item from it.
It is completely incomprehensible what he served for. Judging by the shape of the metal part, one can assume its purely technical purpose.
Archaeologists believe that the "hatchet" was not suitable for use as an ordinary primitive tool of labor. The hypothesis of the cosmic origin of a detail brought to earth by representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization seems to be a perfectly reasonable explanation, but it has no proof.