A weird, bright metal object was found
on March 27, 1974 by members of the Betz family when they checked the
damaged from a small brush fire near their property on Ft. George Island
in Florida. The metallic object was quite heavy and similar to the size
of a bowling ball. The family initially thought of a cannonball because
of a long history of Spanish mission way back in the 16th
century. Antoine and Jerri Betz, accompanied by their then 21-year-old
son Terry, decided to take the mysterious metallic ball to their home.
Back in their home, when Terry was
playing his guitar, the first incident of the family with the ball took
place. According to the family, the ball resonated the music and moved
around all by itself. When they put the ball on their table, it
navigated on its own around the perimeter and managed not to fall.
Doors started slamming without any
reason in the house and filled with organ music, even though no such
music instrument around the resident. When Terry hit the ball with a
metal object, the family members heard a ringing sound.
They also found the metallic object was
sensitive to weather conditions where sunny days produced more
activities than cloudy days. Infrared or direct heat seemed to have no
effect on the object. When the family had enough, they contacted the
media hoping that someone might explain the identity of the bizarre
artifact.
The
photographer of Jacksonville Journal, Lou Egner, saw the ball turned by
itself and rolled to the right around four feet. It stopped and then
turned again, rolled to the left around eight feet. It then made a large
arc and came right back to the photographer’s feet.
The media frenzy followed, and the
family started to think about the possibility that they recovered an
alien space probe. They then decided to subject the ball to a test,
which was done by Dr. Carl Williston of Omega Minus One, a
Louisiana-based institution at that time.
After approximately six hours of
testing, Dr. Williston found three to four magnetic poles in the sphere.
He said that magnetic field’s aspect was a mind bender, the field’s
flux density seemed to vary in strength based on a strange pattern. In
simple terms, the magnetic portion’s power changed up and down. Back in
1974, the phenomenon wasn’t part of physics.
The object was examined with an x-ray
and Williston found out 3 similar spheroid shapes within the ball. These
3 identical shapes had a halo surrounding them. The metal can be
compared to stainless steel but had unknown content, making it slightly
different metal as we know it.
The Betz ball is nowhere to be found
today. The ball faded together with its news. Where is the Betz ball
today? No news about the family as well. Is it still possible to contact
them? No one can tell their exact location.
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