UFOs are as old as the world. They flew over the Earth even at a time when the primitive ocean splashed primitive algae on land, whizzed over trilobites and landed in the jungle of the Jurassic, breaking giant horsetails with the same ease as today's lean birches. Over millions of years, their pilots have left many traces on the Blue Planet.
In deep layers of the earth's crust, sometimes they find remnants of unknown technology - abandoned, accidentally forgotten or left after some kind of accidents. These layers were formed and firmly cemented long before the appearance of the "king of nature" on Earth.
Once - or more precisely, in February 1961 - Mike Mikesell, Wallace Lane and Virginia Maxie climbed the Coso Mountains, which rise in the state of California. They wanted to find some semi-precious stones for their shop that traded in minerals. But instead, they happened to find the remains of an unknown mechanism, forgotten by someone in the deep past!
At first, no one knew that they were holding more than just a concretion. It was picked up along with many other rocks near the summit of the peak at approximately 4,300 feet, 340 feet above the dry bottom of Lake Owens.
“We don't know,” Maxie said, “which of us raised her. Since Mike was carrying the bag of stones, during lunch we put all our stones in his bag."
In appearance, the nodule was distinguished only by the fact that time cemented fossilized shells and their fragments into it. Since about a thousand years ago, the level of Lake Owens reached the place where the "bounty hunters" collected their samples, this was also not unusual. But the next day, Mike Mikesell messed up his diamond saw by sawing it in two …
The cut passed through a perfectly round object made of some extremely hard material, similar to ceramic, with a 2 mm light metal core in the middle.
The "discoverers" noticed that in the bark of the nodule, in addition to fossilized shells, there were two non-magnetic metal objects resembling a nail and a washer. The inner part of the bark was 1/3 of a substance resembling petrified wood; it was slightly softer than agate or jasper. This layer was hexagonal and appeared to form a shell around the hard ceramic object. The metal core reacted to the magnet. Apparently, the strange ceramic object was encased in copper: a small amount of the metal remained intact, although everything else was decomposed.
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“The last time I saw this object was five years after it was sawn. Mike's cut still glittered, even though it had been in the air the whole time,”Maxie said. - It is possible that he was no more than a hundred years old - something was dipped into a layer of mud, then taken out to dry, and it hardened in the sun in just a few years. Or maybe this instrument is as ancient as the legendary Atlantis or Mu. Maybe we found a device for communication, or something like a radio direction finder, or it is generally a device that uses energy principles unknown to us."
An experienced geologist who studied fossilized shells soldered into the crust of the nodule believed that it must have been at least 500,000 years old to reach its present state.
When Ron Kalez brought X-rays of the mysterious find to the editor of the MFI Journal, Paul Willis, he exclaimed: This is something like a spark plug!
“I was shocked,” said his brother, Ron Willis. - Suddenly everything fell into place. The object, sawn in two, reveals the hexagonal section, the porcelain or ceramic insulator with a metal core in the middle are the main components of any spark plug."
The top end of the object, according to the X-rays, ended with a spring, but the Willis brothers suggested that it could be "the remains of a piece of metal corroded with wires." Despite some differences from conventional spark plugs, the impression was that some device connected to electricity was soldered into the nodule.
The Willis brothers asked the owner of the find, Wallace Lane, to give it to them for more in-depth research. But he already smelled money. Lane said he could sell the "fossilized ancient mechanism" for $ 25,000. Like, then explore it as much as you want …
"There is no evidence that any professional scientist has ever carefully studied this subject, so the question of what it could be remains controversial," concluded Ron Willis. - Now, it seems, the find from Koso has added to the list of mysterious objects, the owners of which, without exorbitant payment, refuse to let anyone in for research.
No less mysterious fate befell another sample of alien technology, which was described by the Romanian researcher Florin Gheorghita.
In the spring of 1974, a group of workers discovered three small objects in a sandy quarry on the banks of the Mures River, buried in a thick layer of river sediments. The quarry was located two kilometers east of the Romanian village of Ayud and 50 kilometers south of the city of Cluj-Napoca. The finds lay at a depth of ten meters and were covered with a hard sandy crust.
A local ethnographer identified bone fragments in two objects. The third in shape and weight seemed to be a stone ax. For further study, the local historian sent them to the Archaeological Institute of the city of Cluj-Napoca. There the sandy crust was removed. The fossils were identified as the bone of a limb and molar of a young mastodon. As for the third object, it soon became clear that, despite some external resemblance, it is not a stone ax, since it is made of metal.
Inside the metal object, the length of which was 20.2 cm, went two holes of different diameters. These holes converged at right angles. There was an oval deformation at the bottom of the wider hole - probably due to the fact that a rod with a rounded end was inserted here. The subject was clearly at one time part of a system.
The analyzes carried out under the direction of Dr. I. Niederkorn showed that it was made of a complex alloy. It consisted of 13 elements, with the main component (89%) being aluminum. Further, in decreasing order of percentage, went copper (6.2%), silicon (2.84%), zinc (1.81%), lead (0.41%), tin (0.33%), zirconium (0, 2%), cadmium (0.11%), nickel (0.0024%), cobalt (0.0023%), bismuth (0.0003%), silver (0.0002%) and traces of gallium.
Although aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, it is found naturally only in compounds. It was opened in 1825, and the industrial production of aluminum began only at the end of the 19th century.
The surface of the find was covered with a thick layer of aluminum oxide. Usually, in air, aluminum immediately becomes covered with a very thin and strong oxide film and the process of further oxidation is suspended. The find had an oxide layer more than a millimeter thick, which had never been observed before. Such a thick layer would be possible with an extremely large age of the object, estimated at hundreds of thousands of years (there are no samples for comparison, of course). The metallurgist who took part in the research said: "It is incredible, but it seems that we are faced with aluminum with an aged structure, as if other alloy elements have regained their own crystal lattices!"
The fact that the object was found under a ten-meter layer next to the bones of a mastodon (an animal that died out about a million years ago) also spoke in favor of the very venerable age of the find.
None of the specialists participating in the study could even imagine what it was. Finally, one aeronautical engineer put forward an interesting hypothesis: in front of them is something like a support of some not very large aircraft, adapted for a soft landing on the surface of the planet. This is evidenced by the shape of the object, and two holes (possibly for attaching the landing gear legs), scratches on the lower surface and edges of the object (planting marks?), And the material itself - aluminum, which, thanks to its lightness, is still used in aviation and rocket science.
Apparently, the next landing of the device was the last. He had an accident in the Mures river valley. Its fragments were carried away by the river, and only the broken support was stuck in shallow water. It was covered with sediments and has survived to this day …
Whether it really was so, we do not know. Only one thing is clear: the "Ayud object" was not created by our semi-wild ancestors. Isotope analysis could finally find out the truth, but during the reforms and revolutions, the find managed to get lost somewhere …
But other, no less sensational finds I happened to personally hold in my hands!
Gold miners of the Terra enterprise, working in the foothills of the Urals on the banks of the Narada, Kozhim and Belbanyu rivers, very often found in the concentrates from the washing troughs not only gold, but also strange spirals of various sizes mixed with melted pieces of metal. Since 1991, such finds began to come across more and more often.
These spirals, which are retrieved from a depth of 3 to 12 m, range from 3 centimeters to microscopic sizes - 0.003 millimeters. Large spirals are made of copper, small and tiny ones are made of tungsten and molybdenum.
Mineralogist Regina Akimova was the first to draw attention to these findings. She discovered that the small spirals are made of molybdenum and contain a tungsten core inside. “Their artificial nature is beyond doubt today,” wrote a local newspaper. - The age of the finds is dated easily. Geologists know that gold-bearing placers were created in this area by nature about 40-60 thousand years ago, at a time when mammoths were still walking on Earth."
Nevertheless, the St. Petersburg researcher Valery Uvarov believes that the "spirals" are much older than it seems to geologists. He said that once a piece of igneous rock was found - granite with the ends of "spirals" sticking out of it. This pushes their age back millions of years, when the Ural ridge was just forming.
One of the tungsten coils has traces of sudden melting, so rapid that a gas bubble floated up in the melt. There are no such temperatures even in the mouth of the volcano. Uvarov suggested that the "spirals" were once part of a large mechanism that exploded or was deliberately destroyed by a super-powerful weapon, so much so that there are almost no traces of its existence. The epicenter of the explosion can be calculated from the frequency of occurrence of spirals and melted metal particles. And one more thing: Terra's lands are in a suspiciously flat circular structure. Is it not formed by a giant explosion millions of years ago?
Spirals were analyzed at the Central Scientific Research Geological Prospecting Institute of Non-Ferrous and Precious Metals (TsNIGRI, Moscow). The conclusion of TsNIGRI dated November 29, 1996, signed by the expert E. V. Matveeva, states that the age of the deposits is roughly estimated at 100,000 years and that the “question of the extraterrestrial man-made origin” of the spirals is quite legitimate.
“Accurate measurements of these often microscopically small artifacts showed that the proportions of the spirals obey the so-called golden ratio,” wrote researcher Hartwig Hausdorff. - All the research carried out so far gives the finds between 20,000 and 318,000 years old, depending on the depth and location of their discovery. But even if it was only about two or twenty thousand years, the question inevitably arises: who then was able to produce such superfiligrant microtechnology, which we ourselves are just beginning to produce?
Of course, not all finds in deep layers of the earth's crust are so filigree. Back in 1883, the American Antiquarian magazine described the find in a coal mine in Colorado, "Eve's thimble" - an iron, cast object resembling a thimble with a ledge at the base. The item was discovered 100 meters deep in a hollow piece of coal about 67 million years old.
Another interesting find belongs to the same distant era. In 1968, the French cavers I. Drew and H. Salfati in the Saint-Jean de Livé quarry (Calvados department) discovered strange metal objects in a layer of chalk in the form of five red-brown tubes 3-9 cm long, 1-4 cm wide and with a rectangular section. The authors of the find wrote: “At first these formations seemed to us to be fossils, but having carefully studied them, we were convinced of their completely metallic nature. Counterfeit testing showed that the carbon content was higher than that of modern castings. We were forced to consider the hypothesis that they were meteorites, but five pieces were found, all of the same nature, which made us reject this hypothesis too. It remains to admit only the intelligent intervention of creatures that could cast such objects at the end of the Cretaceous."
We, earthlings, most often lose objects that are made in thousands and which in most cases no one will specifically look for - small coins, nails, buttons, and similar trifles. The fact that such finds in deep layers also exist indicates either the more venerable antiquity of the human race, or that the aliens in the distant past were much more like people than they do today.
In 1844, the English naturalist Sir David Brewster spoke at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science with a report on the discovery of a steel nail in the Kinguda quarry (Milnfield, North Britain), embedded with a head in hard sandstone. The tip of this nail, almost completely eaten away by rust, protruded outward into a layer of boulder clay. According to Dr Medd of the British Geological Survey, this is a Lower Devonian red sandstone that is over 360 million years old!
Brewster wrote: “The slab in which the nail was found was nine inches thick. When cleaning the rough surface of the slab for its subsequent grinding, a nail tip was found, thickly covered with rust … The nail itself was positioned horizontally on the stone surface, and its head protruded into the stone layer by about an inch.
Since it was the hat that turned out to be embedded in the stone, it is impossible that the nail was driven into the slab after it was removed from the quarry. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the exact place or the depth where a piece of stone and a nail was quarried.
The Times newspaper from Morrisonville, Illinois, USA, in its issue of December 24, 1851, placed a note under the intriguing headline - "A Problem for Geologists":
Hiram de Witt … who recently returned from California, brought with him a piece of gold-bearing quartz about the size of a man's fist. On Thanksgiving, he took it out to show his friends. The stone accidentally fell to the floor and shattered. Near the middle of it, a little rusty iron nail, the size of a six-penny nail, was firmly soldered into quartz. He was perfectly straight and had a great hat. But who made this nail? In what era was it stuck into the still uncrystallized quartz? How did you get to California? If the head of that nail could speak, we would know more about American history than we probably will ever know."
In Lown Ridge, Illinois, a coin-shaped metal object was recovered from a drill core. A certain J. Moffitt reported in a letter to the Smithsonian Institution that in August 1870 he had drilled a well; at 125 feet, the drill grabbed what looked like a coin.
The "coin" was an "almost circular rectangle" with crudely depicted figures and inscriptions on both sides. Nobody could determine the language of the inscriptions. In appearance, this item was different from any known coin. Dubois, a specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, concluded that the "coin" was made mechanically and "… passed through a mechanism like a rolling mill; if the ancient Indians had such a device, then it must be of prehistoric origin." The sharpened edge of the “coin” indicates that it was cut with metal or stamping scissors.
In nearby Whiteside County, workers recovered from a depth of 120 feet "a large copper ring or hoop, such as is used today in shipbuilding … There was also an object that looked like a boat hook or boat hook." The age of the layers from which the finds were extracted. estimated at 200-400 thousand years.
On June 9, 1891, Mrs. C. W. Culp split a piece of coal to put it in a bucket, as she had done thousands of times. But this piece did not go to kindling: a chain fell out of it. At first, she thought that the chain had accidentally fallen among the coal, but when she tried to lift it, she realized that it was not: the rift only released its middle part, and the ends remained soldered into the coal. As Morrisonville's Times of June 11, 1891 wrote, "… this is a subject worthy of study for archaeologists who love to puzzle over the geological structure of the earth …"
The chain was gold, "fine antique work".
“It's scary to even think,” the newspaper wrote, “for how many centuries one stratum after another has been forming in the underground, hiding from us this ancient product of eight carat gold, weighing eight pennyweights (12.4 grams)”.
Now we can answer: the age of the coal seam in which the chain was found is estimated at 260-320 million years.
Miners at one of the Wattis coal mines, Utah, in 1953, mining a coal seam at a depth of 8,500 feet, forced their way into a network of tunnels 5-6 feet high and about the same width. They contained coal of such venerable antiquity that it weathered to the point of being completely unusable for burning. A search outside the mountain along a straight line, which indicated the position of the tunnels, did not reveal any sign of entry. All this irrefutably testifies that someone unknown organized coal mining so long ago that all traces on the surface were erased by erosion.
Professor John Wilson of the University of Utah said in the pages of Coal Age magazine that, without a doubt, the tunnels were pierced by a man, but when it is impossible to determine. Jesse Jennings, professor of anthropology at the same university, said he did not know who these ancient miners were, but doubted that they were any American people. He noticed that such work was supposed to serve the local needs in coal, since before the appearance of the white people, they carried all the loads on themselves, and it would be difficult to carry coal somewhere far away; nevertheless, no trace of the intensive burning of coal by local residents was found in the vicinity of Wattis.
In our country, too, many times mysterious objects have been found among the thickets of coal. In the Komissarovskaya mine, located near the Likhaya station in the Rostov region, drifter Gennady Pastushenkov found a piece of molten metal. The strange piece was in the boundary layer between coal and rock seams and could in no way be brought in from the surface in any way.
Already at home, Gennady Prokhorovich examined the find properly. The metal practically did not rust. The hacksaw teeth slipped off the debris without even leaving a scratch. But most importantly, the question remained open - how did this thing get underground to a depth of 450-500 meters?
In the end, a melted piece of silver-colored metal measuring 4.2x3.7x2.4 cm and weighing 120.91 grams fell into the hands of the ufologist V. P. Utenkov from the North Caucasus branch of the Ufocenter. V. Bessonov, Candidate of Chemistry, and R. Kibizova, Senior Researcher from the Central North Caucasian Research Laboratory of Forensic Science, established that "… in terms of its elemental chemical composition, the alloy sample under study corresponds to alloyed steels."
A molten piece of alloy steel at a depth of 500 meters! How many million years ago and how did the alloy get underground?..
However, the most intriguing "underground" find was strange metal "balls". For thirty years they have been caught by workers of the South African mine "Wonderstone" in the deposits of a rare mineral - pyrophyllite. The balls are noticeably flattened, resembling chicken eggs, and measure from one to ten centimeters in length. All of them seem to be molded according to a single template. Some balls were solid, others
- hollow, with a shell up to 6 mm thick and spongy tops. Three distinct parallel grooves ran along the perimeter of each ball.
R. Marks, director of the Museum of Natural Sciences of the city of Klerksdorp, brought with him one ball. The find could not be completely cleaned of the remains of the rock, and therefore it was put in a showcase with its clean side towards the visitors.
Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, authors of Forbidden Archeology: The Secret History of Mankind, wrote to Marx asking for more information about the balls. On September 12, 1984, he replied: “There are no scientific publications about balls, but the facts are. These balls are found in pyrophyllite, mined near the town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. Pyrophyllite is a very soft secondary mineral with a hardness of less than 3 units on the Mooc scale, formed as a sedimentary rock about 2.8 billion years ago. The inside of such a sphere has a fibrous structure, but the surface is extremely hard, so that even steel does not leave a scratch on it."
Although the locals called them "miracle balls", the main "miracles" were discovered by accident. Once the director noticed that the ball was turned to the people with its "dirty" side, and again put it as it should. But history repeated itself again. Since then, passing by the showcase, Marx was convinced that the ball was rotating around its axis imperceptibly for the eyes. He calculated that the find makes a complete revolution in exactly six months - 128 days. Careful testing showed that the ball rotates by itself, without anyone's help.
The press quotes a confused comment from a geologist professor at the University of Johannesburg: “I have no idea what it might be. This is a mystery. I simply cannot give any explanation. " Another scientist, Brenda Sullivan, said: "I believe that these items testify to a highly developed civilization that once existed on our planet, about which we know nothing."
Indeed, some finds rather suggest that a person or someone very similar to him existed in the time of the dinosaurs or even earlier. But 2.8 billion years ago on Earth, life was just emerging in the warm waters of the primeval ocean. This means that the trail again leads to space, to those creatures that once visited the Earth and could even bring life to it …
Mikhail Gershtein "On the other side of the UFO"