Mysteriöse Kugel die Sich von Selbst Bewegt - Die Sphäre von Betz

Today, we are so used to scientific and technological developments that almost nothing can surprise us anymore. However, there are a large number of strange artifacts for which science could not find a reasonable explanation, either due to their function or even their own existence. Books with strange codes, unexplained maps, stones with unusual carvings, ancient figures that represent strange things and the fall of the Bed Sphere, a mysterious metal ball that was accidentally found by an American family in the 1970s and had the ability to move by itself. At that time, the sphere caused a lot of media buzz and was described by many as alien technology. It all started in April 1974, when a family from Jacksonville, Florida found a strange sphere-shaped metal object with an approximate weight of 9 kg and slightly smaller dimensions than that of a bowling ball. The young medical student Terry Matthew Batts, his mother Geri and his father Antoine were on their way to inspect the damage caused by a fire on their property. The almost 35 hectares of swampy forest on Fort George Island, east of Jacksonville, during their inspection, the family came across an interesting metal ball that was surprisingly undamaged. In fact, despite the fact that it was in a fire-damaged area, the sphere did not show any signs of burns or scratches. On the contrary, the sphere showed a perfectly polished, shiny appearance. At first, Terry and his parents suspected that it was a cannonball from the time of Spanish colonizers in the region. They rejected this hypothesis, however, mainly because of the perfectly preserved appearance of the object. Then they thought that it could be an object that belongs to the government, especially NASA. Or maybe it could even be part of a Soviet satellite. It is important to remember that the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union reached its peak in 1974, so that the Americans were constantly concerned about the possibility of a Soviet attack. For a moment, the family also thought that the object itself was the cause of the fire, but they never found any evidence for it. What could this strange metal ball be? Without an answer and after some thinking, the family decided to take the ball home with them. The ball found a home in the room of the young Terry Betts and stayed there without causing any problems. Until something very curious happened, on April 26th. On this day, Terry was sitting with his girlfriend Teresa Fraser and was practicing guitar as usual. Suddenly, the two young people began to observe something that undoubtedly seemed very strange. The ball began to vibrate and made a pulsating sound, apparently as a reaction to the sound emitted by the guitar. After a few minutes, they noticed that the ball also emitted a kind of resonance that was not audible to the human ear. They could only find out this because of the behavior of the family dog. With the words of Jerry Betts, Terry's mother, there must be some high-frequency waves coming from it. When we put our dog next to the ball, he whimpers and holds his paws over his ears. A few days after this incident, the Betts family noticed other strange occurrences that were also related to the sphere. The family discovered that the ball, by putting it on the ground, easily hit, change its track as desired and then return to the starting point. In fact, the Betts family even claimed that the ball managed to stay in motion for about 12 minutes before it finally stopped. Since Terry was quite curious and also motivated by the strange events in connection with the metal ball, the young man began to carry out a series of home experiments to find out what it was all about. Terry hit the ball with a hammer to see what happened. This made the ball ring like a bell. Then Terry took the ball and shook it vigorously. Then he put it on the ground. To Terry's surprise, the ball seemed to awaken to life and roll through the room as if it wanted to escape from the young man. When, on the other hand, he put the ball on a glass table, it moved to the edge of the table and then away from it, to the middle of the table. Even more surprising was the fact that the ball moved in the opposite direction at an inclination of the glass surface, which contradicts the law of gravity. During all these tests, the Betts family found that the ball also seemed to be sensitive to weather conditions, especially sunlight. They observed that the abilities of the sphere became more intense on sunny days, which was not the case on cloudy days. Did the ball use sunlight as an energy source? This assumption is strange, if you consider that solar energy was generally not used in the 1970s. This strange ability of the ball to move by itself finally worried the Betts so much that they kept the ball in a closed bag overnight, only as a precaution in case the sphere tried to escape. The Betts family was so amazed by the abilities of the sphere that they began to introduce them to friends and family. As expected, the news spread quickly thanks to mouth propaganda and more and more people became interested in learning more about the mysterious sphere. At the suggestion of friends and family, the Betts finally decided to go public with their artifact, perhaps to see if the authorities could help them to find out what the object was. Many newspapers showed interest in the story, where the earliest article about the Betts sphere was published in the daily newspaper of Jacksonville, the Florida Times Union, on April 11, 1974. The article states the following description of the sphere of Mrs. Betts. She stopped and then returned to the person she had rolled, only to stop and vibrate in a short distance from the person, where she made knocking sounds as if she were hitting the floor. There was also a quiet noise inside, like the noise when you shake a broken light bulb and the broken light cable rattles a bit. It's a very quiet noise, but definitely there. The local newspaper of Jacksonville was also interested in the story and sent an experienced photographer, Lou Egnert, to the scene to see what information he could get. Egnert was a very skeptical person, but took the job respectfully. When the photographer arrived at Betts, Jerry greeted him eagerly and quickly showed him the sphere. Egnert described the following scene in the daily edition of the Palm Beach Post on April 12 with the following words. I am suspicious of such things. When I arrived there, Mrs. Betts said, you won't believe it if you don't see it for yourself. She said I should stand on the floor and give her a push. She rolled a bit and stood still. Well? She said, wait a minute. The ball turned by itself and rolled about a meter to the right. She stood still. Then she turned around and rolled about two and a half meters to the left, made a big arc and then came back to my feet. Egnert was very surprised by the abilities of the metal ball. He examined it carefully, but, like the Betts family, could not find the source of their mysterious behavior. In the course of five days, the case of Betts was attacked in various international media. Within a few days, reporters of renowned publications, including the New York Times, from various parts of the world, met. But not only the press, but also scientists and the military showed interest in the strange phenomenon. Even representatives of the US Army and NASA, as well as various associations of UFO researchers, made contact with the Betts family. Many visitors were skeptical of experiencing the phenomenon, but practically everyone went back surprised when they saw what the ball could do. Even the United States Navy went so far as to admit on television that they had no idea where this object could come from. At the same time, they explained that the ball was not owned by the US government. In the midst of all this excitement, the renowned astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek asked the Betts family to send the ball for further investigation to his office at Northwestern University in Chicago. However, the Betts refused, as they feared that the ball would be lost. So the strange artifact remained in the Betts house until some new events took place. Suddenly the family started to hear organ music in the middle of the night, although they had never had such an instrument in their house. In addition, the doors opened and closed at any time of day or at night on their own. At this point, the family agreed to leave the sphere to the scientists of the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Experts from the United States Navy subjected the ball to a series of tests, but their initial efforts proved to be unsuccessful. Their machines could not penetrate the object. Chris Berninger, a spokesman for the Navy, said, Our first attempts with X-rays will lead us nowhere. We will examine the ball with a more powerful device and also use a spectrographer to determine what metal it is made of. Finally, the scientists were able to determine several properties of the ball, including its exact diameter, its weight and the thickness of its coating. It was about 13 cm thick, but could withstand a pressure of about 8,300 bar. The coating was a kind of rust-free steel, which had a magnetic alloy and was corrosion-resistant. The X-ray device also showed two round objects made of a material of unusual density inside the ball. They also observed that the ball had four different magnetic poles, two positive and two negative, and that they were concentric. But they also came to the conclusion that the object was neither radioactive nor explosive and asked for permission to break open the ball to examine it more closely. Jerry Bates, however, did not accept this and the Navy gave the object back to its owners. However, many questions remained unanswered. What were those two round objects in the ball? Was the Bates family in possession of real alien technology? Perhaps a kind of alien hearing aid, as many have called it? In July 1974, Dr. Carl Wilson, a representative of the research company Omega-1 Institute, examined the ball for several hours and discovered that the magnetic field around it emitted radio waves. Wilson went on to say that the ball's shell contained an unknown element that distinguished it from steel. Apparently, Mr. Wilson was also a witness to the ball's abilities and went so far as to say that it contradicted the well-known laws of physics. The results of the Omega-1 Institute's research on the origin of the ball resembled those of the Navy, so the secret about the ball remained. In the same year, some members of the APRO organization managed to convince the Bates family to bring the ball to the UFO congress, as it could be proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. In addition, there was a price of $50,000 that was praised by the magazine National Enquirer for everyone who could prove the existence of extraterrestrials. Finally, the mysterious metal ball once again moved into the center of attention and was subjected to various tests, always under the supervision of Terry Bates. The magazine Enquirer was commissioned to assemble a high-caliber gremium of various renowned experts. After a whole series of tests, the experts came to the conclusion that the device, despite everything that was already known about the capabilities of the ball, worked as an audio transmitter. Although they could not determine the origin of the object, they still concluded that it was of extraterrestrial origin. In the face of this background, the Bates family's Enquirer refused any chance of winning the $50,000 prize. At the end of the event, Jay Allen Hynek said that the object was probably created by man, but he admitted that he had no idea what it was or where it came from. However, the ball aroused the attention of a high-ranking member of the Gremium, Dr. James Albert Harder, who would later conduct some studies on the artifact. Debates allowed Harder to analyze the ball and the results were both fascinating and frightening. On August 24, 1974, Dr. James Albert Harder, after carefully examining the ball, made an announcement at the International Congress of Ufology in Chicago that amazed all those present. According to a report based on X-ray examinations, the two inner circles of the ball consisted of an element that is much heavier than any known material on Earth. The heaviest element produced in an atomic reactor has an order of 105. The heaviest element that naturally occurs on Earth is uranium, with an order of 92. However, the order of the element within the Bates ball was 140. Dr. James Albert Harder explained, if someone tried to split the ball, it could explode like an atomic bomb. The Bates family expressed concern, but kept the ball. After these statements, skeptics began to spread stories that should destroy the credibility of the Bates family. Exhausted, the family decided to move far away and no one heard from them anymore. Skeptics claimed the metal ball was nothing more than a setback valve of the Jacksonville Equipment Supply. Even the president of the company, Robert Edwards, issued statements on this. I'm not saying that this thing didn't come out of space, because I've never seen it. All I'm saying is that this corresponds to the physical description of a ball type that we have in storage. The sculptor James Dirling Jones also claimed to have lost a ball that had fallen out of his Volkswagen van while driving through Jacksonville in 1971. Dirling-Jones claimed to have received some industrial valve balls from a friend who had purchased them illegally. However, the experts who examined the ball could not find any welding marks that the industrial valves normally show, which undoubtedly led to these last two statements. After that, the public's curiosity quickly subsided. After this bizarre series of events, numerous spheres that resemble the Betz sphere have appeared around the planet over the years. However, no one has managed to attract the attention of the world as much as the Betz sphere at the time. Nevertheless, the mystery remains among the believers. Where is the Betz ball now? Was it seized by the government of the United States? Why did the Betz family decide to hide like this? Did Dr. Harder's statements have anything to do with it? Leave us your comments below. And remember to give us a like if you liked this video. If you are here for the first time, feel free to subscribe to the channel as many interesting videos like this one are on their way to you.