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For a long time, the Klerksdorp spheres were considered very strange objects whose existence was difficult to explain. There were numerous opinions that they came from somewhere outside our Earth, until it was clarified that they were concretions formed by the precipitation of volcanic sediments, ash, or both. However, the fact that they are 3 billion years old still gives them pride of place among all the objects that help clarify our history.
Klerksdorp balls are named after the South African town of Ottosdal in the north-west of the country, where they were dug by workers in the pyrophyte mines. At first glance, their spherical or ovoid, absolutely perfect shape caught his attention, which classified the spheres among the objects of the so-called “artifacts out of place”.
Check out some debunked myths surrounding these balls here:
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The Klerksdorp balls are no mystery
In addition to the fact that the orbs have often been described as strange objects with no clear origin, there have also been claims that they could be dinosaur eggs, which is of course nonsense, or that they are alien debris or human artifacts.
The reddish-brown, mostly flattened spheres are of different sizes. The smallest are not even one centimeter in size, while the largest reach up to 10 cm in diameter. Some are smooth, others are decorated most often with three parallel grooves running around the equator.
They were included as out-of-place artifacts because they appear to have been made by someone. But since they are three billion years old, it is impossible for any form of intelligent life to work on them. And it was this that sparked numerous speculations before it was clarified that the orbs were not mysterious. Not even a little bit.
The most popular claim even involved the identification of the Klerksdorp spheres by NASA, which, however, never examined the spheres, let alone claimed that they were so precisely balanced that they could only have formed in weightlessness. Equally false is the claim that the balls are made of a material, apparently metal, harder than steel. The hardness of steel depends on the type of alloy and its processing, so it is not clear-cut.
Similar objects elsewhere in the world
Although especially supporters of conspiracy theories let it be known that the spheres have something in common with ancient astronauts, the width ridges and grooves on the Klerksdorp spheres are, like themselves, completely natural. Similar objects have been found in other places on Earth, for example in southern Utah, New York state or Australia.
The ones in Costa Rica, which are many times larger, are discussed in this video:
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Source: Youtube
Also, the age of these other artifacts is something like 2.8 billion years.
Now the samples of the Klerksdorp spheres are stored in the museum of the same name in Klerksdorp, a town about 70 km from Ottosdal.
Scientists have found thousands of years old hollow spheres. They nod the data but are afraid to open it
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Conjectures and theories
Let’s go back to “objects out of place”. It is a term coined by an American naturalist and cryptozoologist to describe objects of historical, archaeological or paleontological interest that were found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context. They generally looked like they were ahead of their time. They were so advanced that it seemed impossible for them to correspond to the era in which they were set.
According to some, similar objects are evidence of the presence of artificial intelligence even before humans appeared on Earth.
Resources:
www.amusingplanet.com, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
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