The Coso Artifact
While mineral hunting in the mountains of California near Olancha
during the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike
Mikesell found a rock, among many others, that they thought was a
geode - a good addition for their gem shop. Upon cutting it open,
however, Mikesell found an object inside that seemed to be made of
white porcelain. In the center was a shaft of shiny metal. Experts
estimated that, if this was a geode, it should have taken about
500,000 years for this fossil-encrusted nodule to form, yet the
object inside was obviously of sophisticated human manufacture.
Further investigation revealed that the porcelain was surround by a
hexagonal casing, and an x-ray revealed a tiny spring at one end,
like a spark plug. There's a bit of controversy around this
artifact, as you can imagine. Some contend that the artifact was
not inside a geode at all, but encased in hardened clay. The
artifact itself has been identified by experts as a 1920s-era
Champion spark plug. Unfortunately, the Coso Artifact has gone
missing and cannot be thoroughly examined. Is there a natural
explanation for it? Or was it found, as the discoverer claimed,
inside a geode? If so, how could a 1920s sparkplug get inside a
500,000-year-old rock?
Ancient Model Aircraft
There are artifacts belonging to ancient Egyptian and Central
American cultures that look amazingly like modern-day aircraft. The
Egyptian artifact, found in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt in 1898, is a
six-inch wooden object that strongly resembles a model airplane,
with fuselage, wings and tail. Experts believe the object is so
aerodynamic that it is actually able to glide. The small object
discovered in Central America (shown at right), and estimated to be
1,000 years old, is made of gold and could easily be mistaken for a
model of a delta-wing aircraft - or even the Space Shuttle. It even
features what looks like a pilot's seat.
Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of
Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s
stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many
of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as
small as a tennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and
weighing 16 tons! Although the great stone balls are clearly
man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and, most
puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision.
Impossible Fossils
Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were
formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of
fossils that just don't make geological or historical sense. A
fossil of a human handprint, for example, was found in limestone
estimated to be 110 million years old. What appears to be a
fossilized human finger found in the Canadian Arctic also dates
back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the
fossil of a human footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found
near Delta, Utah in a shale deposit estimated to be 300 million to
600 million years old.
Out-of-Place Metal Objects
Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people
who could work metal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid
metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-year-old Cretaceous chalk in
France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find a metal
cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at
an electric plant broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which
fell an iron pot! A nail was found embedded in a sandstone block
from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more such
anomalies.
What are we to make of these finds? There are several
possibilities:
Intelligent humans date back much, much further than we
realize.
Other intelligent beings and civilizations existed on earth far
beyond our recorded history.
Our dating methods are completely inaccurate, and that stone, coal
and fossils form much more rapidly than we now estimate.
In any case, these examples - and there are many more - should
prompt any curious and open-minded scientist to reexamine and
rethink the true history of life on earth.
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