The Mystery of the Betz Sphere
United States of America Florida, Fort George Island
On the night of March 26, 1974, the Betz family became aware of a huge wildfire on their property,
which eventually consumed a vast area of brush and oodland.
The next morning, Jerri Bets walked the area with his 21-year-old son Terry to assess the damage,
and the boy's eyes were caught by a strange metallic sphere-like object.
As they found it rather odd and out of place, they decided to take the ball home.
A few weeks went by and nothing much happened until the boy started playing guitar.
He noticed that the mysterious metal sphere began to vibrate and shake in response to the melodies.
The family then started looking at the object more seriously and thought it might be magnetic,
so they tried to attach all sorts of metal objects to it as an experiment, and in some parts of the sphere they succeeded.
The sphere began to vibrate repeatedly, often at a high frequency enough to make the family’s dogs whine.
The orb soon made the news and was on the front page of local newspapers the following month,
soon becoming national news and even picked up by international newspapers.
The journalist Ron Kivett was one of the first to write about the sphere,
having visited the family to see the mysterious object for himself.
According to the journalist, the first time he saw the orb in the Betz home,
it was on a glass-topped coffee table in the hallway.
He picked up the ball and was surprised to find out that it was much heavier than he expected,
he estimated it to be around 9-10 kilos.
The surface was rougher to the touch than it appeared at first sight, and on closer inspection it was clear
that there was no soldering or fitting of any kind on the sphere, it was practically a single piece of metal.
When he moved the ball, it made a soft sound like a tinkling, as if it were coming from inside,
and it could often be heard even when the ball was completely still.
Kivett had the impression that the sphere was communicating with them.
This was further confirmed by two events that defied common sense.
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Tom Burnett, who was about 10 or 11 years old at the time and the child of another family of friends,
later told that on one of their visits, the Betzes said to him: "You have to see this!"
Then they put the ball down on the carpet, and one of them walked past the ball,
which then began to follow closely behind him.
When he turned around, the sphere behind him did the same and then stopped.
The journalist Kivett himself experienced this strange behaviour during his stay,
when he decided to photograph the orb outside in the courtyard in natural light.
So they put it back on the table to go out to look for a suitable place,
and then the ball suddenly started rolling towards them on the table and stopped just at the edge of it.
Kivett felt as if the sphere would send a signal to them not to leave it there, to take it with them.
By this time, it was clear to everyone that the sphere was something much more than a simple metal ball,
so the Betzes finally enlisted the help of the army, who examined the object.
The sphere turned out to be made of stainless steel alloy 431,
and X-ray spectrometry analysis revealed the interior of the sphere, which made it clear that the sphere was hollow inside.
But what was more surprising was that they found small, spherical objects inside,
which they analysed and found to have an atomic mass of 140 daltons, which is odd
because the largest known atomic mass in nature is uranium, which is 92 daltons, so it was considered to be super heavy.
Further testing would have required drilling the sphere, but researchers did not want to risk this,
because in the worst case, the tiny spheres' constituents could lose their stability,
which would be the equivalent of the effect of a thermonuclear weapon, resulting in a terrifying explosion.
Researchers agreed that the Betz sphere was made using an unknown technology,
and the US government and navy became interested in the metal ball.
And amazingly, after that, the Betzes never saw the orb again,
but no one else knew about it either, because the orb mysteriously disappeared.
It is quite likely that it was sent to a secret military laboratory,
where the mystery of the sphere was apparently further investigated, along with other objects of non-terrestrial origin,
as is usual in such cases.
Interestingly, the Betzes did not even want to talk about the sphere after that, they completely shut themselves off from the topic.
Some say they were threatened by the government or the military to stop talking about it,
others say they were simply fed up with the sudden popularity,
the phone ringing 24 hours a day and unknown visitors
regularly turning up outside their house to pry
or to see the orb while it was in the family's possession.
Some sceptics have of course come up with their own explanations:
They say there is nothing mysterious about the sphere at all,
because it is really just a sculpture that fell out of an artist's car.
Sounds strange? Of course it does.
All the more so because they do not take into account the two facts
that the sphere was found 32 kilometres from the main road in an area
that was densely covered with bushes and trees before the wildfire.
Or that the sphere has been shown to have a number of strange properties
for which there is simply no explanation at present and probably never will be.
At least not officially.
But stories about mysterious orbs are not unique.
In 2011, a similar mysterious orb was spotted falling from the sky in Africa,
in 2012 in Brazil,
and in 2015 in Spain, two mysterious orbs were discovered in close proximity to each other.
The best documented and strangest case, however, occurred on 2 January 2016 in Yen Bai Province, Vietnam,
in the early hours of the morning, when two mysterious orbs falling from the sky were spotted by residents.
According to unanimous witnesses, one of the spheres followed an inexplicable path before hitting the ground,
and before the spheres fell, thunder-like explosions were heard, startling residents.
The next day, also in Vietnam's Tuyen Quang province, another metallic sphere larger than the previous day's fell.
After being inspected by the Vietnamese army, they found that the smallest ball weighed only 250 grams,
having landed and rolled off a rooftop,
while the largest weighed 45 kilograms and was 100 centimetres in diameter.
The army claims that no military operations were taking place in the area at the time,
and has pledged to make the results of the investigations public.
Although the facts were never clearly proven in the end, some local newspapers reported that after initial investigations,
experts suspected that the spheres may have been made in Russia
and landed on Earth as a result of a failed satellite launch.
Other hypotheses suggest that the spheres were compressed air tanks from an aircraft or rocket,
which did not burn up when they passed through the atmosphere.
By the way, looking at the mouth-like opening on each sphere, this might even be plausible.
However, there is no explanation to what could have caused the thunderous explosions before the orbs arrived.
If you think this phenomenon is unique to the modern age, you would be wrong.
Already in the past, artists of the time have depicted mysterious metal spheres,
for example in paintings, whose presence in paintings has no real explanation.
Some say that the globe itself is visible in the pictures, but then this raises further questions.
Why are these spheres apparently made of metal?
Why can't you see the continents and oceans on it,
even though there were already maps that were surprisingly accurate for the time?
Others find a similarity between the Betz sphere and the spheres in the paintings, and let's face it, they do look more like the latter.
What was the Betz sphere actually and where did it go?
Perhaps the government or the navy found evidence that the object was not of terrestrial origin,
so it was confiscated for further investigation?
We may never know, and so the mystery surrounding the orb continues to fuel speculation among those
who like alien themes, who like the context-theories, and even believers of conspiracy theories.
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