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Transylvania, Romania, 1974.
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Workers digging a trench along the banks of the Muresh River,
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unearthed two giant bones, and with them a mysterious metal
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object buried 35 feet beneath the surface.
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Intrigued by what they found, the crew
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takes their discovery to a nearby museum.
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The object was 10 meters in depth,
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associated with some bones, which they later identified
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Mammoth were extinct 40,000 years ago,
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so considering the association with the mammoth bones,
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then the object could be older than 40,000 years ago.
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This strange object, known today as the Wedge of Iude,
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continues to baffle archaeologists
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because it is made from a mysterious alloy
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and appears to have been created thousands of years
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before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.
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The Wedge of Iude weighs about 5 pounds.
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It's about 9 inches long, and it is made out of about 89% aluminum.
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And this was very curious to researchers
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because the Wedge of Iude had to be very old artifact.
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Humans didn't really start working with aluminum
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to well into the 1800s.
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But when you look at this Wedge and you analyze it,
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it really has most of the modern properties
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we would associate with aluminum.
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On January 18, 2017, at the National History Museum
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of Transylvania, ancient astronaut theorists,
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John Joe Suklos and Eric Vandaniken
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were offered a rare opportunity to get a first-hand
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look at the Wedge of Iude.
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Museum curator Anna Gruja has taken it out of a storage locker
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where it has been deliberately hidden from the public
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since the early 1970s.
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Here, this is where they took the sample out
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and here to make the analysis.
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And here you see two pieces that are broken off sort of.
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So maybe it was attached or something.
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So what does the museum have to say about this?
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This is a very strange piece.
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It is a strange piece for us as well.
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We don't know what it was used for.
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And we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating
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and its composition as well.
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We have a real mystery here.
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But you see this patina over this whole object
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and this creates another problem.
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And because you cannot fake a patina.
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The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds
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that forms on the surface of the aluminum
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during exposure to atmospheric elements.
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It was covered with aluminum oxide, which they said
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would have taken 300 or 400 years to have developed.
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And that also baffled scientists.
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So for what can you use this?
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It looks like a hammer or a shuffler.
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But, JoJo, what is the word of an English bacher shouvel?
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Oh, an excavator tooth.
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Well, it looks like this.
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It could have been something like it.
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But these excavated tubes are never made out of aluminum.
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A lot of people dismiss this as a tooth on an excavation bucket.
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If you ever looked at these excavators,
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they usually have a row of teeth in the front.
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That's designed to cut through the material.
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I think, first of all, they would have
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noticed they were missing one.
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Second of all, they don't use aluminum.
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And they're usually made out of hardened steel.
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If the wedge of IUD really is over 40,000 years old,
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could it be part of an even more advanced technology?
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According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes.
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And they suggest it is a fragment of an extra to rest
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An aeronautical engineer who saw the IUD wedge
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looked at it and said, that's a piece of a landing gear
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for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
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Ancient astronaut theorists have also
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looked at this wedge and surmised that it's possible that it's
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part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.
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Aluminum is often used in spacecraft
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because it's a very light material.
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So could it be that the object of IUD
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was part of some type of spacecraft?
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It certainly looks as if it was part of a larger object.
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And the question is, well, what object?
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And what time was this?
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Perhaps there is an extraterrestrial connection.
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