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  5. The article states that the earliest possible date for the object is 400 years ago. It fails to mention that to refine aluminum you need large amounts of high voltage electrical current! There is no chemical method to extract aluminum from dirt. I say dirt because even though aluminum is one of the most common elements found in the Earth’s crust it is NEVER found in its pure state! And even if some unknown genius four centuries ago somehow refined some forming in poses a whole new set of problems because aluminum is a bitch to work and form.

  6. The ‘Dating Method’ used is that it was found next to some old bones 33 feet underground.
    Now if it was swamp land I might buy the aircraft theory more than I do now.
    But that is a very large chunk.
    Time to get out the metal detectors out and start a sweep spiraling out from the find and see what else is down there.

  8. Most of what we’ve been taught as truth is actually propaganda. That includes accepted theories on our origins. If there were visitors from other planets long ago or yesterday for that matter do you think the “people in charge” would tell us? No way Jose.

  11. They have no idea how old it is. They couldn’t carbon date it, because it contains no carbon. They could only date fossils found near it.
    It appears to have some oxidation. Maybe they thought that was a clue. Aluminum will oxidize given enough time and the right circumstances. However, a piece of aluminum buried in moist earth will oxidize fairly quickly (a few decades), but that same piece of aluminum would oxidize very slowly or not at all if buried in a desert. My guess is circa WWII, Russian equipment. Probably excavation, given the depth it was found. Shit was always falling off whatever they built.

  15. Anybody check with Consolidated Aircraft or Boeing? Could be part of one of the many B-24’s and B-17’s that were shot down over Romania during WWII. Or maybe from a German aircraft. Looks like a hinge of some sort. Rudder? Some old guy or gal who built or serviced those planes might know it if they saw it. I’m not saying that there’s no weird, unexplainable stuff all over the earth, just that this is not one of those things.

  20. My bet is a WWII era wing spar fitting from the crash of a large airplane.

    BTW – aluminum was produced chemically in the first half of the 19th century. Mix anhydrous aluminium chloride with potassium and you’ll get aluminium. Also, sodium will reduce aluminium trichloride to metallic aluminum. When the Washington Monument was built, the aluminum cap was then the single largest man-made piece of aluminum ever produced at that time (1884). (I remembered this hazily and found details in a few minutes of web searching.)

  21. Uncle Al
    During WWII they had already refined the process. And Aluminum is not just aluminum. Ya got your garden variety 6061 t6 in plate and extruded bar, then you have your Air Craft grades which were primarily 7075 t651 and 2024 t4. Both available in Plate or Rectangular bar. So my point to all the gibberish is that what constitutes the different grades is different amounts of elements. They could easily run a test on that hunk and tell exactly what alloy it is and probably exactly where the ore came from.

  22. @Brad – Good points all.

    I got familiar with aircraft aluminum alloys some decades back when I was an avid hang glider pilot and (by necessity) hang glider mechanic/repairman. Ya can’t just bend out yer lawn chair for a busted cross bar, Ace!

  23. frankly, all of the pics are too blurry to show details, so the reader necessarily goes with the poorly-written article
    interesting is what appears to be a machined-out circle in the lower half of the two ‘prongs’ on the left of the object in the above picture …. drilled out?

  25. Ha ha! Alunimum … Almunium … What difference, at this point, does it make?

    Didn’t some old dead King of France have almuninum flatware before Alnumuon was discovered?

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