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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?

(man shouting
in foreign language)

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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