For more than a dozen years, scientists from all over the world have been searching for traces of ancient civilizations. I'd like to believe that our distant ancestors possessed mysterious knowledge that we have no idea about. Excavations are being conducted in all parts of the globe in the hope of finding even the slightest proof of this. The Koso artifact was considered one of them for many years.
It all started when Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxie and Mike Mikesell, co-owners of LM&V and a gift shop in Olanche, southern California, traveled to the Coso Mountains on February 13, 1961. The purpose of their journey was to find samples of geodes. Geodes are hollow, spheroidal stones with crystals inside. Their age is about 500,000 years. Opening one of these stones, they discovered a thick, rounded cut of white ceramic. In its center was a metal rod that reacted to a magnet.
This whole structure was located inside a rusted hexagon of copper and unknown metals. It was covered with fragments of fossilized shells, hardened pebbles, clay, and two strange objects. These objects were made of metal, reacted to a magnet and resembled a nail and a washer. The find intrigued the searchers and they decided to show it to specialists. According to Virginia Maxie, the geologist (his name has not survived) determined the age of the find at least 5,000,000 years. The basis for this conclusion was the study of fossilized shells. It turns out that he appeared long before the appearance of the human race?
The only researcher on the find whose name we know was creationist Ron Calais. Ohm took photographs of the artifact, both under normal lighting and under X-rays. In the last photo, it was found that something resembling a spring rests against an iron rod. It was suggested that the mysterious find may be an electrical mechanism.
Paul Willis (editor of the paranormal magazine INFO Journal) noted the similarity of the find to a modern spark plug. In 1963, the item was on display at the Independence Museum in Eastern California for three months. And soon the owner of the "spark plug" became Wallace Lane (one of those who found the artifact). He kept it at home and did not agree to sell it even for $ 25,000. After 1969, the item was lost.
What hypotheses about the purpose of the Koso artifact were not put forward: a super-antenna, a capacitor, a spark plug for an ancient apparatus, and the like. The very same Virginia Maxie stated that it is quite possible that the subject is not more than a hundred years old. He could lie on a muddy bottom, and then the sun dried up and gave him such an "ancient" look.
The researchers of the artifact by the writer Pyrrh Stromberg and the geologist Paul W. Heinrich made the assumption that in the early 20th century, more minerals were mined in the Koso mountains. From this it followed that the work used internal combustion engines, which used spark plugs. To confirm the version, the researchers sent out copies of X-ray images of the item to four collectors of American incendiary candles who did not know about the find earlier. And they all unanimously pointed out that the mysterious find is nothing more than a spark plug of the era of "champions" (20 years of the twentieth century) for a Ford model T. It has been modified and adapted for mining in the Koso mountains. There was a candle inside a nodule of iron ore, which was formed under the influence of storms that blew "mineral dust" from the bottom of the dried-up Lake Owens. The ancient find turned out to be no more than 40 years old!
Now no one knows whether they wanted to deceive us, or whether those who found the Koso artifact simply wanted to believe that the found thing would make a revolution in ideas about the world.
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