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GIORGIO A TSOUKALOS: We're so excited to be able to see this.

ANA GRUIA: So this is it.

It's-it's very heavy.

-It's heavy. -Wow.

NARRATOR: Could physical evidence

of alien visitation have been hiding in plain sight?

TSOUKALOS: This is a very strange piece.

It is a strange piece for us as well.

NARRATOR: Did part of an alien craft

fall from space?

GRUIA: We acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating

-and its composition. -So we have a real mystery here.

NARRATOR: Or are we looking at alien technology

made right here on Earth?

This defies everything we know.

Definitely.

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NARRATOR: Tuyên Quang Province,

Northern Vietnam.

January 2, 2016.

During the early morning hours,

three strange metal spheres are seen falling from the sky.

-(people screaming) -Witnesses report

that one of the spheres seemed to be flying

in a mysterious pattern before crashing to Earth

and making a loud "thunder-like" sound.

Witnesses saw these spherical-shaped metallic balls,

which were recovered by the Vietnamese military.

We have photographs of them,

but we don't have whatever the objects were.

Now, of course, the big question is:

could they be connected to the UFO phenomenon?

Numerous similar spheres were seen in Spain in 2015

and in Africa in 2011.

The skeptic would argue that this is just simply

space debris and nothing else.

But what's particularly intriguing is that,

in March 1974, a very strange sphere was found

at Fort George Island in Florida.

It was found by the Betz family.

NARRATOR: On March 26, 1974,

on a remote piece of land in Ft. George Island, Florida,

owned by Gerri and Antoine Betz,

a wildfire broke out in the middle of the night,

burning acres of brush.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

But the next day, as the family was investigating the damage,

they came upon a strange object:

a metal sphere.

DICK BURNETT: Gerri Betz and her son Terry went out there,

and Terry sees this metallic-looking ball

in the ground there.

And he picks it up and shows it to his mother,

and they take it back to the house.

And a couple of weeks went by,

and Terry had the ball on a table next to his bed.

And he took his guitar out.

He started strumming it.

And the ball started vibrating.

TOM BURNETT: I was about ten or 11,

and one night they pulled it out.

We got I think it was a mayonnaise lid out,

and we were holding it in different places

on the, on the sphere.

And it would be magnetized

and stick in some areas and not in others.

I can't remember

which household member said, "Well, watch this."

And they walked past it, it was sitting on the carpeted floor,

and it followed them and moved as they did.

They took a few steps and turned,

and it rolled right behind them and to a stop.

I had never seen anything like it before.

NARRATOR: The Betz sphere began to make headlines

in April of 1974.

One of the first to break the story

was a young reporter named Ron Kivett,

who conducted an exclusive interview with Gerri Betz

just after she had made her amazing discovery.

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NARRATOR: In February of 2017,

investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe

traveled to Jacksonville, Florida,

just 20 miles from the site where the Betz family

made their incredible discovery.

-Hi, Ron. -Hi, Linda.

-Nice to meet you. -It's good to meet you.

-Come on in. -Yes. Thank you.

NARRATOR: She arranged to meet with Ron Kivett

to get a firsthand account

of his experience with this bizarre object.

You've actually held this silver sphere.

I have actually held the ball, right.

Talk about what happened. I'm so curious.

You get to their house.

How was the Betz sphere introduced?

-How did they show you? -Um...

The ball was on a coffee table, a glass-topped coffee table

in a foyer much like this, a little bit larger,

but it was windows

all the way around, almost like an atrium.

And, uh, I said, you know, "Can I pick it up?"

Gerri said, "Oh, sure."

So I-I picked it up, and it was heavier

than I anticipated it to be.

About 20 pounds, right?

That's what they say, yeah, about 20 pounds.

The ball had a much rougher texture to it

than I anticipated.

And if you moved it, you could hear

a very faint tinkling inside it.

(faint tinkling)

It wasn't a hum or a buzz, it was that tink, tink, tink.

Terry had the ball in his room,

and he began to notice that even when the ball wasn't moving,

he could hear this tinkling sound.

Well, it would suggest it was conscious,

or was downloading, uploading information

from something that it was involved with.

Well, the consciousness of it.

I decided I wanted to take the ball outside

and get some pictures with natural light.

The ball was back on the table.

So we all get up to leave to go find a spot to shoot it in,

and the ball rolled

all the way to the edge and stopped.

And it was just like, "Don't forget me."

That's when the hair stood up on my arms.

NARRATOR: After observing the strange behavior

of the sphere for several weeks,

the Betz family decided to submit it

to the military for examination.

DAVID WILCOCK: It got interest from the Navy.

It got interest from the United States government.

And during the testing of it,

they found it was made of a stainless steel metallic alloy,

specifically the ferrous alloy number 431.

And then when it was analyzed with X-ray spectography,

the interior of the sphere was hollow

and had smaller spherical objects,

which were analyzed to have an atomic weight of 140.

Now, the largest atomic weight that we see in nature

is uranium, which is a 92.

So these smaller,

super heavy balls that were inside,

with an atomic weight of 140,

caused certain scientists to speculate

that if anyone actually tried to drill inside the sphere,

that it could be the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon,

that those elements could go into criticality

and create a massive explosion.

So the point is, this sphere has very peculiar properties

that suggest that it is in fact

some sort of artificially intelligent technology.

Do you think that it is a viable hypothesis

that at least the Navy, from the work that they did,

-knew this is not terrestrial? -Oh, absolutely.

And it was after the Navy examination...

Right.

...that everything seemed to basically come to a halt.

Correct.

I never got a real clarification on what happened, you know.

But now the ball has disappeared.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the Navy discovered evidence

that the Betz sphere is of extraterrestrial origin,

and secretly confiscated it for further examination?

DICK BURNETT: Gerri and her family are not interested

in talking about the sphere anymore.

They just don't want to discuss what happened with it.

Maybe nobody will ever see it again.

That's a possibility, you know?

I don't know.

NARRATOR: To date,

no one has been able to locate the sphere

or explain what it was.

But perhaps further clues may be found

by returning to the very site where the mysterious Betz sphere

was first discovered.

HOWE: Talking with the Betz Family,

you thought you're dealing with really honest people

who are very puzzled about what this sphere is.

When I first talked to them, I was convinced

that all of them were telling me the truth.

NARRATOR: Fort George Island, Florida.

February 3, 2017.

Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe

is traveling with reporter Ron Kivett

to the site where a mysterious metal sphere

that displayed the uncanny ability

to move on its own was first discovered

in 1974 by the Betz family,

following a wildfire on their property.

This would have been an area where the fire would have been.

We're getting closer.

KIVETT: Now, this is the kind of woods

they would have found it in.

All of this here, you can see where the-the palmettos.

-Yeah. -It's thick.

It's hard to go through.

In fact, it's almost amazing.

-Without the fire... -Without the fire, they probably...

They would never have found it.

Gosh.

So, the mys... There's the mystery

-of what caused the fire... -Right.

...how long it had been there, and...

Was it intended to be found?

Wow.

NARRATOR: Skeptics of the Betz sphere story

claim it was part of a sculpture

that fell from an artist's truck.

KIVETT: So this is what it would have all looked like

before the fire.

NARRATOR: But Ron Kivett says this is impossible,

since the sphere was discovered

in the middle of a densely forested area

20 miles from any stretch of main highway.

You know, now that I'm here

where the Betz family found that sphere,

it's just so clear that any of the stories

about an artist over on the road having something falling

off a truck and rolling

-through all of this thick palmetto... -It's impossible.

Impossible.

And the whole idea

that they would never have found it

-if there had not been a fire... -No.

The fire was integral to finding the ball.

What do you think, talking with Terry and Gerri?

I know they found it.

I know how they... how they found it.

They knew right away, you know,

after that-that first incident or so,

that they had something special.

If it was a hoax, somebody put it there.

If it was not a hoax, somebody put it there.

-It's... -Or something.

Or something.

NARRATOR: If this mysterious sphere

was of extraterrestrial origin,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

might it have been intentionally placed

on the Betz's property and even have started the fire

that resulted in its discovery?

Throughout history,

similar spheres have appeared in artwork

that dates back hundreds of years

and are often depicted as coming from the heavens.

WILLIAM HENRY: In Christian art, you'll see

these incredible examples

of angels holding bowling ball-size spheres

in their hands.

In other examples,

Jesus himself holds a metallic sphere.

God is portrayed holding a sphere.

So when you go back to the Betz family

and compare it with what we know

about these spheres and Christian mythology,

you have to ask,

are-are we dealing with something of ancient origin

or possibly of extraterrestrial origin?

(faint tinkling)

HOWE: Where is that sphere today?

My wager?

One of our government agencies has this Betz sphere,

and our government has probably learned a great deal

about a sphere that has self-activating software

and maybe has been sending and receiving the whole time.

NARRATOR: The concept of a self-activating metal sphere

with the ability to communicate

is not as farfetched as it may sound.

In fact, science is on the verge of discovering

a similar technology today.

Beijing, China.

March 2015.

Here at Tsinghua University,

scientists announce the creation of a self-fueled robot

in the form of a small liquid metal sphere

that is capable of shape-shifting.

JEFF WILLIAMS: When energy is applied from the outside,

externally, the metal would change shape.

But they also noticed that it could also produce

its own power supply for about an hour,

and because of this action, it would move, too.

And, of course, most people are considering using it

in the field of robotics.

Just imagine where that can go.

WILCOCK: We're seeing the first steps that we are making

towards having these types of exotic alloys

that could, in the future, give us the ability to emulate

the type of extraterrestrial technology

that we already see in out-of-place artifacts.

NARRATOR: In addition to creating shape-shifting robots,

this new technology may be used by doctors

to make repairs inside the body without performing surgery.

It could also lead to fully flexible electronics,

as well as major advances in artificial intelligence.

Some ancient astronaut theorists propose

that it was a similar technology that powered the Betz sphere.

This is a possible explanation

for what could be going on with the super heavy balls

inside the Betz sphere.

They may be using some sort of similar technology

in order to roll themselves around inside,

which then allows the ball to be able to roll around,

much like a self-propelled bowling ball.

So with these new discoveries,

we now have a plausible explanation

for how the Betz sphere was able to roll around.

DAVID CHILDRESS: As modern scientists develop new alloys,

we have to wonder if these artifacts,

like the Betz sphere, they are

perhaps there for us to examine and retro-engineer

and use and create for ourselves

and our own space industry.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that objects like the Betz sphere

have been purposely left behind by extraterrestrials

for thousands of years

in order to help in the development

of mankind's technological evolution.

As further proof,

they point to mysterious metal ingots

recently recovered from a shipwreck

off the coast of Sicily that are unlike

any other metal known to exist on Earth.

NARRATOR: Sicily. 2015.

Archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa excavates a shipwreck

less than a mile off the coast,

which has remained undisturbed for more than 2,600 years.

His team dredges up

an ancient payload of 39 metal ingots.

Interestingly, spectrographic analysis

of the recovered alloy reveals the compound is unlike

anything ever found in the ancient or modern world.

The interesting part about this

is the composition of the ingots that they found.

The metal is 80% copper and 20% zinc.

There was other things found in it,

but that's the majority of the composition.

Now, zinc only occurs in nature as sphalerite.

It's a zinc sulfur complex.

In order to create zinc,

which didn't come around till about a thousand years ago,

you have to actually process the zinc out

of this sulfide.

They didn't have that technology back then.

WILCOCK: What was someone doing

blending together copper, zinc, lead, nickel, iron?

This is a complex alloy.

This is nothing easy to do.

It suggests the possibility

that it could have special electrical

or energetic properties that we don't even know about.

People would not be expected

to be making such a complex alloy back then.

NARRATOR: How is it possible that such an advanced alloy

was manufactured over 2,600 years ago,

centuries before man had the technology

to manipulate elements like zinc into metals?

And what was its purpose?

Based on the composition of this alloy,

scientists believe what they have found

is orichalcum, a metal associated

with the legendary continent of Atlantis.

According to Plato's fourth century dialogues,

the Timae and Critias,

Atlantis possessed a power and technology

greater than any other civilization on Earth.

It was founded and ruled over by the Greek god Poseidon,

whose temple was covered in a precious metal

called orichalcum,

which translates to "mountain copper."

The composition of the alloy is not specified by Plato,

but based on its electrical properties, color and luster,

scientists suggest that if it really did exist,

it most likely consisted of copper

mixed primarily with zinc,

just like the metal found in the shipwreck.

It was said that the temple of Poseidon on Atlantis

flashed with the red light of orichalcum.

The copper tint of this metal caught the attention

of the seekers that came to this sacred place.

This is not just an attractive color.

This has spiritual implications.

There was something about this metal

that was said to resonate with the divine.

Perhaps it was its origin, that it had come from heaven,

it fell out of the sky.

NARRATOR: According to Plato's story,

the Greek god Cadmus, son of Poseidon,

came down from Mount Olympus

and gave orichalcum to the people of Atlantis.

An important figure in early Greek mythology

was Cadmus, a divine character,

the first hero, fifth in the lineage from Zeus

of the Greek gods.

It was Cadmus that brought the making of bronze.

He knew how to make alloys, special metals, which,

in the early days of civilization,

was the beginning of technology.

So Cadmus is the one who shows us

the divine nature of metalwork

and gives this as a gift to the generations.

WILCOCK: Why are we so quick to dismiss

the underlying stories in those myths?

Those stories talk about extraterrestrials

coming and visiting our culture.

They talk about gods that walked among us

and interacted with humans but with a severely advanced

technology beyond anything that we have today.

Ancient astronaut theory says that the legends

of these Greek gods are not just mythological,

but they're actually rooted in actual events.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Greek gods

were extraterrestrial beings our ancestors witnessed

descending from the sky,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And does the discovery of orichalcum

provide physical evidence

that the legendary continent of Atlantis truly existed?

GEORGE NOORY: These artifacts

could allow you to conclude

that the continent of Atlantis was real,

that it sank,

and that it possessed high technology

before it met its tragic fate.

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,

discoveries like the metal ingots

found off the coast of Sicily

provide evidence that extraterrestrials

have been fostering mankind's technological evolution

for thousands of years.

And they suggest that even more compelling evidence

can be found by examining a mysterious artifact

discovered in the tomb of King Tut.

NARRATOR: Cairo, Egypt.

At the Egyptian Museum,

an entire floor is dedicated to the incredible treasures

found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen.

Among them is a metal dagger

that has baffled both scientists and archaeologists

because it appears to be made of iron,

but dates back to at least 1322 B.C.,

more than a century before Egypt's Iron Age.

On May 20, 2016,

a new layer was added to the mystery.

Researchers from

the Journal of Meteorics and Planetary Science

announced that they had finally determined

the composition of King Tut's dagger.

After detailed analysis,

it was confirmed that the blade is indeed iron,

forged from metal that originated not on Earth

but in the stars.

Meteorites are very difficult, uh, to fashion into objects.

Anybody, even today,

who's ever worked with a meteorite will tell you

that because of the high nickel content,

they're very, very brittle and very difficult to work with.

NARRATOR: Considering the difficulties

of working with meteoric metal-- even with today's technology--

how did metallurgists 3,300 years ago

perform such tasks?

WILLIAMS: This dagger is completely out of place

in the fact that--

unlike simple objects, like beads,

that can be simply hammered out and rolled--

this has been perfected to a point where

it has no hammer marks on it, it's completely smooth,

it has a nice edge all the way around on it.

It almost looks as if it had been cast.

But in order to achieve that,

you would have to reach temperatures of 3,000 degrees

in order to melt that meteorite,

and then, of course, add the necessary fluxes

to get the impurities out and then cast the blade,

which brings up even more questions for the researchers.

If they were smelting iron,

it would change our whole outlook on Egyptian history.

NARRATOR: What could explain the presence

of this mysterious metal dagger in King Tut's tomb

when no other similar artifacts have been found in Egypt

dating back to this period?

Might Egyptian metallurgists have had help

working with this difficult compound?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest stories found throughout the ancient world

reveal that extraterrestrials taught our ancestors

the secrets of metallurgy

in order to help move society forward.

ROBERT SCHOCH: True metallurgy,

in the sense of

putting different metals together as alloys,

dates back to maybe 3800 B.C.,

when bronze was first discovered as an alloy of tin and copper.

Maybe the second most important development

after the harnessing of fire.

YOUNG: As we think of modern times

and our emphasis on technology,

here is the sacred roots to all of that.

Stories emerged out of all the religious systems

about the gods as metalworkers.

Hephaestus, in the Greek imagination,

made weapons and the armor for the gods.

In the Celtic imagination, it was the great goddess Brigid

who made beautiful and wonderful and powerful things into metal

and then into fabricated form.

In Japanese lore, Canayago came to Earth

to teach the people metalworking.

JASON MARTELL: There seems to be a-a ubiquitous understanding

from ancient cultures that metallurgy

is from the heavens.

Could there be some tie that, in the past,

certain abilities were originally brought to man,

possibly by extraterrestrials,

and things we would create had a certain energy

or myth about them that still is alive today?

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the most compelling of these stories

originates in the same place as King Tut's mysterious dagger:

Egypt, where they worshipped a sacred object

called the Benben stone.

Ancient Egyptian texts describe the Benben stone

as a meteoric iron object that belongs to the heavens.

The original Benben stone mysteriously disappeared,

but many ancient depictions of it remain.

The Benben stone has a very strange origin.

It is thought that the Benben stone

descended from the sky like a firebird.

If you look at the Benben stone,

sometimes it is described or depicted

with people coming out of this stone.

Now, to me, this looks very similar

to a lunar module.

If you have the idea that this firebird

is descending from the sky with fire and smoke,

well, if you look at a rocket descending,

these are firebirds.

So our ancestors perhaps witnessed

some type of a craft descending from the sky,

out of which these extraterrestrials came,

which set in motion our technological evolution.

NARRATOR: According to Egyptian texts,

their gods were extraterrestrial beings

that came to Earth

and taught our ancestors the secrets of metalwork.

If true, might this be why we find isolated examples

of advanced and sacred metallurgy

occurring long before mankind was known

to have grasped such technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that hidden away in the storage area

of a small museum in Eastern Europe

is even more astounding evidence:

the remnants of what might be an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Transylvania, Romania.

1970.

Workers digging a trench along the banks

of the Mures River unearth two giant bones,

and, with them, a mysterious metal object

buried 35 feet beneath the surface.

The discovery brings the project to a halt,

as the crew takes their findings to a nearby museum.

This strange object,

known today as the Wedge of Aiud,

continues to baffle archaeologists

because it is an aluminum alloy

that appears to have been made thousands of years before

humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.

It was ten meters in depth, uh, associated with some bones,

which they later identified as woolly mammoth bones.

If they were contemporary, all of them,

then they were in use sometime in the period when Neanderthals

roamed the earth, so they were extinct 40,000 years ago,

so they must be older than that.

The wedge was analyzed three times, to my knowledge.

The main, uh, metal in its composition is aluminum.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Humans didn't really start working

with aluminum until well into the 1800s.

So when you look at this wedge and you analyze it,

it really has most of the modern properties

we would associate with aluminum.

NARRATOR: This incredible metal artifact was discovered

at a time when Romania was behind the Iron Curtain

of the former Soviet Union.

For decades,

government officials refused to reveal

where the Wedge of Aiud was being held...

(men shouting, gunfire)

...even after the fall of the USSR.

(crowd cheering)

But its location has recently come to light,

and in January of 2017,

ancient astronaut theory pioneer Erich von Daniken

and his protégé Giorgio Tsoukalos

sought out the wedge to see it for themselves.

NARRATOR: On January 18, 2017,

at the National History Museum of Transylvania,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos

and Erich von Daniken were offered a rare opportunity

to get a firsthand look at the Wedge of Aiud.

Museum curator Ana Gruia

has taken it out of a storage locker

where it has been deliberately hidden from the public

since the early 1970s.

This is exciting.

Okay, I'm just going to put my gloves on.

TSOUKALOS: This is great.

GRUIA: So this is it.

-TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow. -VON DANIKEN: Okay.

-This is the wedge. -This is strange.

It's-it's very heavy.

-Giorgio, take it. -This is crazy.

-It's heavy. -Wow.

This was found at a depth of ten meters,

which is about 30 feet, in the ground.

-GRUIA: Yes. -Yes, and here, this is the...

-where they took the sample out... -VON DANIKEN: Yeah.

...and here to make the analysis.

And here you see two pieces that are

broken off, sort of, so maybe it was attached or something.

But very strange.

So what does the museum have to say about this?

This is a very strange piece.

It is. It is a strange piece for us, as well.

As historians, we do not consider it a historical object

that we're used to.

We don't know what it was used for,

and we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating,

and its composition, as well.

VON DANIKEN: So, for what can you use this?

It looks like a hammer or a shovel, but,

Giorgio, what is the word of... in English...?

(speaks foreign language)

Oh, an excavator tooth.

Well, it looks like this.

-It could have been something like it. -Yeah.

VON DANIKEN: But these excavator tooths

are never made out of aluminum.

TSOUKALOS: No, it's too weak.

-VON DANIKEN: Aluminum is too soft. -Yeah.

They are made out of steel,

especially hard steel, so it... it could not be that.

So we have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina over this whole object?

And this creates another problem.

TSOUKALOS: Yes, because you cannot fake a patina.

It's impossible to artificially create a patina.

NARRATOR: The patina is a thin coating

of various metal compounds that forms

on the surface of the metal

during exposure to atmospheric elements.

The older the object,

the thicker the patina layer will be.

It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years

for a thick layer of patina,

as this apparently is, for it to develop.

Yes, we agree there are two basic problems.

One, that aluminum was not invented

at the age when we presume this was in use.

And second, it's the patina, as you noted.

VON DANIKEN: Which speaks for the date for the...

-TSOUKALOS: Yes. -...for the age of it.

So we still have a mystery here.

Thank you very much for, uh, showing us this object,

because I know that there was a time, uh,

when nobody knew where it was-- somewhere in a box in the back.

Which means present-day archeology has a problem.

And they're doing magnificent work.

But when something like this comes along, you know,

we should investigate this and not put it in a box in the back.

-Definitely. -GRUIA: It did depend on mentalities

-in official position. -Yes. -(laughs)

It isn't currently exhibited, uh,

because we have to admit, as historians,

that we do not know more details about it.

For us, it's just baffling at this point.

But taking the-the logic further, uh,

this conflicting information could have just two solutions

so far.

One, that it is really not so old,

and the context is irrelevant,

and the patina was somehow produced

in special circumstances.

So it's a new object, strangely preserved, let's say.

And the second option is, of course,

that it's not of terrestrial origin.

In all of your adventures, how does this compare

to some of the other things that are inexplicable?

I am helpless. I have no idea.

-That says it all right there. -(laughs)

Very bizarre. Bizarre.

I've known about this thing since the early 1990s,

and I have to tell you that looking at it

in person was a dream come true.

And it's a very strange thing.

I mean, how do you explain this?

It certainly looks as if it was part of a larger object.

The question is: was it a component of a device?

Was it a component of something larger?

NARRATOR: If the Wedge of Aiud

really is over 40,000 years old,

then who made it, and what was it used for?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe

they may have the answer.

An aeronautical engineer

who saw the Aiud Wedge looked at that and said,

"That's a piece of a landing gear

for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft."

Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge

and surmised that it's possible

that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.

NARRATOR: Could the Wedge of Aiud really be a remnant

of an extraterrestrial craft,

perhaps similar to the one some say

the Egyptians represented with the Benben stone?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest evidence recently recovered

from a meteorite in Russia

may be another gift from our alien ancestors,

one that propels us towards the next great technological leap.

NARRATOR: Siberia, Russia. 1979.

A meteorite crashes into the Koryak Mountains.

Nearly four decades later, in December 2016,

researchers studying pieces of the meteorite

at the University of Florence, Caltech and Princeton announce

that it has brought with it an incredible, rare metal formation

called a "quasicrystal."

This quasicrystal features 60 points of rotational symmetry,

made up of aluminum, copper and iron.

It is an exotic pattern

that has never before been found in nature,

and could lead to the next major technological leap.

This thing should not exist,

and yet there it is on this meteorite.

Now, quasicrystal alloys

violate the known laws of physics completely,

but what we have heard from whistleblowers is that

the surfaces of extraterrestrial vehicles,

such as the one that crashed in Roswell,

are made of quasicrystal alloys.

And certain quasicrystal alloys,

when electrified, generate antigravity.

Extraterrestrial intelligences may have been wanting us

to find the quasicrystals,

and it shows that there could be a whole new world of technology

waiting for us to unlock.

And what we're looking at is a very likely possibility

that these out-of-place artifacts

are just some of the table scraps

from an extraterrestrial civilization

that had way more advanced stuff than that.

NARRATOR: Are extraterrestrials giving mankind the tools needed

to reach the next level in our technological evolution?

And if so, where are they leading us?

HENRY: The stories of these very powerful ancient alloys suggest

that these are pathways back to our origins.

That these are ways that we can connect

with our original extraterrestrial visitors,

and also point a way forward for us,

because as we begin to understand these technologies,

perhaps one day we'll even be able to duplicate them.

As modern scientists develop new alloys,

we have to wonder if these ancient artifacts

of strange alloys aren't extraterrestrial artifacts

that are perhaps there for us to examine and retro-engineer,

and use and create for ourselves and our own space industry.

NOORY: There is no question

that we are getting closer and closer

to whatever technology the extraterrestrials possessed.

NARRATOR: Are the unexplained metal artifacts

found all over the world proof

that we have been visited by otherworldly beings?

And did extraterrestrials teach our ancestors

secrets of metallurgy that we are

just now beginning to develop and reproduce?

Perhaps by examining these strange metal objects,

we will begin to not only understand our past,

but also be better prepared to face...

our ultimate destiny.

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