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WILLIAM HENRY:
In 1974, construction workers
in Romania were working
at a village
called Aiud
near the River Mures.
At a depth of 30 feet of sand,
they stumbled upon
several very strange objects.
Two of these objects
ended up being bones
from a mastodon, a distant
relative of the elephant
that is believed to have gone
extinct 11,000 years ago.
The third object was this
mysterious, wedge-shaped object.
It drew such interest that they
took it to an archeological
institute to have it analyzed.
What they discovered
is absolutely amazing.
JEFF WILLIAMS:
It was made up of 89% aluminum
and six percent copper and
it had 12 elements altogether.
Aluminum didn't come into
existence until 1829.
So, where did the wedge
come from?
And with that type
of composition, as well?
12 elements?
There's a lot of theories
where it came from,
but nobody's really sure.
Aluminum is one of the metals
that's very common now
and we think of using it
all the time,
but it was a metal
that humans worked with
very late in our history.
We didn't really
work with aluminum
and aluminum alloys
until well into the 1800s.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
The whole story
of the Wedge of Aiud
is so curious because it was
found under 35 feet of sand
and silt with mastodon bones.
And since mastodons
have been extinct
for 10,000 or 12,000 years,
we now have the curious idea
that this wedge
is over 10,000 years old.
This is baffling
to archeologists.
It's an object that they say
just couldn't exist.
And an object like that
would probably have to be coming
from some very
high tech civilization.
Probably extraterrestrials.
An aeronautical engineer who saw
the Aiud wedge
looked at it and said
"That's a piece
of a landing gear
for vertical take-off
and landing aircraft.
Ancient astronaut theorists
have also looked at this wedge
and surmised that it's
possible that it's part
of a crashed
extraterrestrial craft.
This is very interesting because
it opens up the possibility
that what we have with
the Aiud wedge is in fact
hard, physical evidence
of extraterrestrial visitations
as long ago as 11,000 B.C.
