It is a mysterious ball that looks like a prop from a science fiction film - and nobody can explain where it came from.
Police have been left baffled after a strange metal sphere fell to the ground in a remote area of northern Namibia, Africa.
It weighs around 13lbs, has a diameter of 14 inches and its rough surface looks like ‘two halves welded together’, said police forensics director Paul Ludik.
The baffling metal sphere, pictured made a crater 12 inches deep where it fell
When the ball came down it caused a crater 12 inches deep and 13ft wide, although it was found some 60ft away.
Locals claimed to have heard several explosions in the days before it was discovered by a farmer on his land.
The find sparked speculation on the internet that it could finally be proof of extra terrestrial life, even though it bore a passing resemblance to the head of a character from the children’s series Teletubbies.
Some claimed that it could be an escaped particle from the Large Hadron Collider, reindeer droppings or a Quaffle from the Harry Potter films.
Others - arguably with more accuracy - guessed it was a hydrazine tank, which are used on space satellites to store the flammable chemical.
Mr Ludik however was quick to point out that more tests need to be done and that NASA and the European Space Agency had been notified.
He said that the ball was discovered a month ago but it has only now been made public. Whilst it was made of a ‘sophisticated material’, it was something that was known to mankind.
He explained that the explosion heard by locals could have been the sonic boom when it broke the sound barrier coming down to Earth, or by the impact on the ground.
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What can these little death star balls be, discovered here on Earth but thought to be 2.8 billion years old?
Actually, pyrophyllite is a mineral created by metamorphism of earlier sediments, at moderate temperature and burial depths of several miles. The most astonishing, if undisputed fact (because of the highly specific dating of the pyrophyllite rock layers in which these “spheres” were found) is their extraordinary age: 2.8 billion years!
Whatever formed them (and then left them for two thirds of the history of planet Earth, in this extremely ancient metamorphic rock deposit!), occurred when the highest forms of life on Earth were only red and blue-green algae! So -- how did hundreds of precisely crafted, apparently intelligently-designed metallic artifacts, harder than steel, find their way into such a deep rock layer … literally miles below South Africa?!
But, that isn’t the most remarkable part of this story.
Other images of these mysterious “metallic spheres” in the Klerksdorp Museum (below) reveal an even more astonishing, precise resemblance to none other than the Cassini close-ups of the anomalous eighth satellite of Saturn–
Iapetus!
These remarkable details include not only the same “equatorial ridge/groove” … but the presence of a “deathstar entry port’ as well (below)!
This close-up (below) illustrates the scale of these astonishing ~3-billion-year-old analogues, compared to their vastly larger “cousin” … over a billion miles away.
How could this astonishing similarity naturally occur?!
What we’ve “got” is a unique, extraordinary object orbiting Saturn … again, the singularly most important object (I would argue -- the “Face on Mars” now notwithstanding) that NASA has found in its almost half a century of looking!
This one does appear to be intellegently made, with signs of some sort of electrical discharges going on, as well as some manufacturing marks. The outer nodes are the first of this type on these balls, as most others have been flush or inverted. Some kind of used battery or fuel? Maybe a little "hollow moon" spacehip?? It looks more metallic than organic rock. Peace, D.
ReplyDelete"with signs of some sort of electrical discharges going on"? Where does this "appear" to you? It looks to me like 2 halfs were cast and welded together. Hence the nubs on each end
ReplyDeleteThe 2 "nubs" look like they were burned off with a torch or heavy electrical conduction. Peace, D
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