Strange Geode with metallic structure inside – Coso Artifact

Picture of Mystery Real X-File ID: 2423

Report Date: 02/03/2018

Country: United States

Place: Olancha, California

Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills, Traces of ancient advanced technology

Existing Facts Sources: Internet video (Youtube, Vimeo…), Book

Summary Report: 

The Coso artifact is a so called “out-of-place artifact”. An “out-of-place artifact” (OOPart or Oopart) is an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in an unusual context that challenges conventional historical chronology by its presence in that context. Such artifacts may appear too advanced for the technology known at the time or may indicate the presence of humans at a time when humans did not exist. Other examples suggest contact between different cultures that is difficult to explain with the conventional understanding of history.

On February 13, 1961, 6 miles north-east of Olancha at the edge of the Amrgosa desert in California, Mike Mikesell, Wallace Lane, and Virginia Maxey were looking for minerals and were particularly on the lookout for geodes. The three owned a souvenir shop in Olancha, and they knew very well that geodes could be sold for a lot of money. This is because sometimes magnificent crystals can be found inside a geode. About 120 meters above Owens Lake, the three discovered an irregularly shaped geode and laboriously hauled their find home. The next day, Mike Mikesell wanted to saw the rock in half to get to the crystals on the inside. As always, he used a diamond saw. Suddenly the saw snapped. A new saw blade suffered the same fate. Now the hard-working finders suspected that there might be a particularly valuable mineral inside the geode, perhaps even a diamond. They finally succeeded in splitting the geode in half with a great deal of effort and the assistance of a hammer and chisel. Their surprise could not have been greater. The outer skin supposedly consisted of a layer of sea fossils. This was followed by a layer that reminded them of petrified wood. Finally, there were two rings of a porcelain-like material, which in turn contained a plain pin 2 millimeters in diameter and 17 millimeters in length. That is what had broken the diamond saw. A geologists estimate the age of the geode at about 500,000 years. But the identity of that geologist and the means of dating were never clarified.

Following the events, an investigation by Pierre Stromberg and Paul Heinrich, with the help of members of the Spark Plug Collectors of America, identified the artifact as a 1920s-era Champion spark plug. Stromberg and Heinrichs report indicates that the spark plug became encased in a concretion composed of iron derived from the rusting spark plug.

There are still some open questions regarding this strange object which shows similarities to the famous “London Hammer”. How did the “Spark plug” end up inside a geode with surrounding layers of material which are at least 1 – 2 cm thick? What are the implications if the artifact respectively the surrounding layers can be dated to realy be 500000 years old? Could it be prove of a very advanced ancient civilisation or could it even be proof of time travel?




Links: https://www.google.ch/search?q=Coso+Artefact&oq=Coso+Artefact&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.407j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1601632479/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=1601632479&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwdanikencom-21


Facts Source Details:
Details of Internet Video:  Wiki4All Channel,01/01/2021,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khh2bdQCNSc
Details of Book:  Evidence of the Gods: A Visual Tour of Alien Influence in the Ancient World, Grüsse aus der Steinzeit,Erich von Däniken,Career Press, New York, Kopp Verlag,11/22/2012, 08/01/2010


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