In 1970, a group of builders was working on the banks of the river Mures in the town of Aiud when they found three objects buried underneath the sand. Upon analysis, two of the objects turns out to be the bones belonging to an ancient extinct mammal called the mastodon that died out between 10,000 to 80,000 years ago.
The third one was a metal initially thought by the workers as the end of an ax, which measures 7.8 inches long, 4.9 inches wide, and 2.8 inches thick. When researchers got their hands on it, however, they discovered that it was a very lightweight metal, reported to Techtimes.
Mysterious Metal Discovered Before Humans Created Aluminum
Further scrutiny of the find by researchers at a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland revealed that the dug up fragment composed of 12 different metals and is 90 percent aluminum. It's estimated it dates as far as 250,000 years ago.
But that age has since been moved at a later date between 400 and 80,000 years old by other researchers. Even if placed at the nearest estimate, the metal is still baffling experts as this indicates that it was made 200 years earlier than when mankind knew how to create aluminum, said RT.
What's even more strange is that the substances comprising the metal aren't compatible with the technology available on Earth, according to Gheorghe Cohal, deputy director of the Romanian Ufologist Association. The design is also adding to the mystery of the ancient metal as it possesses curvatures that look like it was part of a complex mechanical system.
Ancient Aluminum Proof As Aliens Visiting Earth?
At the time of its discovery, Romania was under a communist rule so information regarding the metal was kept from the public. Now, conspiracy theorists have deemed the metal as one of the many proofs of aliens visiting our planet in the past.
Surprisingly, among these conspiracy theorists is Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to ever stepped on the moon's surface and the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 14. According to Mitchell, there have been talks among high-ranking military officials that UFOs were seen above the skies in New Mexico when the first nuclear test was being carried out.
Officials have dismissed these claims as nonsense but others believe the retired astronaut. As for the mysterious metal, it's now displayed in the History Museum of Cluj-Napoca.
