Ancient Aliens

We're so excited to be able to see this.

So this is it. - It's-it's very heavy.

- It's heavy. - Wow.

Could physical evidence

of alien visitation have been hiding in plain sight?

This is a very strange piece.

It is a strange piece for us as well.

Did part of an alien craft fall from space?

We acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating

- and its composition. - So we have a real mystery here.

Or are we looking at alien technology

made right here on Earth?

This defies everything we know.

Definitely.

Tuyên Quang Province, Northern Vietnam.

January 2, 2016.

During the early morning hours,

three strange metal spheres are seen falling from the sky.

Witnesses report

that one of the spheres seemed to be flying

in a mysterious pattern before crashing to Earth

and making a loud "thunder-like" sound.

Witnesses saw these spherical-shaped metallic balls,

which were recovered by the Vietnamese military.

We have photographs of them,

but we don't have whatever the objects were.

Now, of course, the big question is:

could they be connected to the UFO phenomenon?

Numerous similar spheres were seen in Spain in 2015

and in Africa in 2011.

The skeptic would argue that this is just simply

space debris and nothing else.

But what's particularly intriguing is that,

in March 1974, a very strange sphere was found

at Fort George Island in Florida.

It was found by the Betz family.

On March 26, 1974,

on a remote piece of land in Ft. George Island, Florida,

owned by Gerri and Antoine Betz,

a wildfire broke out in the middle of the night,

burning acres of brush.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

But the next day, as the family was investigating the damage,

they came upon a strange object:

a metal sphere.

Gerri Betz and her son Terry went out there,

and Terry sees this metallic-looking ball

in the ground there.

And he picks it up and shows it to his mother,

and they take it back to the house.

And a couple of weeks went by,

and Terry had the ball on a table next to his bed.

And he took his guitar out.

He started strumming it.

And the ball started vibrating.

I was about ten or 11,

and one night they pulled it out.

We got I think it was a mayonnaise lid out,

and we were holding it in different places

on the, on the sphere.

And it would be magnetized

and stick in some areas and not in others.

I can't remember

which household member said, "Well, watch this."

And they walked past it, it was sitting on the carpeted floor,

and it followed them and moved as they did.

They took a few steps and turned,

and it rolled right behind them and to a stop.

I had never seen anything like it before.

The Betz sphere began to make headlines

in April of 1974.

One of the first to break the story

was a young reporter named Ron Kivett,

who conducted an exclusive interview with Gerri Betz

just after she had made her amazing discovery.

In February of 2017,

investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe

traveled to Jacksonville, Florida,

just 20 miles from the site where the Betz family

made their incredible discovery.

- Hi, Ron. - Hi, Linda.

- Nice to meet you. - It's good to meet you.

- Come on in. - Yes. Thank you.

She arranged to meet with Ron Kivett

to get a firsthand account

of his experience with this bizarre object.

You've actually held this silver sphere.

I have actually held the ball, right.

Talk about what happened. I'm so curious.

You get to their house.

How was the Betz sphere introduced?

- How did they show you? - Um...

The ball was on a coffee table, a glass-topped coffee table

in a foyer much like this, a little bit larger,

but it was windows

all the way around, almost like an atrium.

And, uh, I said, you know, "Can I pick it up?"

Gerri said, "Oh, sure."

So I-I picked it up, and it was heavier

than I anticipated it to be.

About 20 pounds, right?

That's what they say, yeah, about 20 pounds.

The ball had a much rougher texture to it

than I anticipated.

And if you moved it, you could hear

a very faint tinkling inside it.

It wasn't a hum or a buzz, it was that tink, tink, tink.

Terry had the ball in his room,

and he began to notice that even when the ball wasn't moving,

he could hear this tinkling sound.

Well, it would suggest it was conscious,

or was downloading, uploading information

from something that it was involved with.

Well, the consciousness of it.

I decided I wanted to take the ball outside

and get some pictures with natural light.

The ball was back on the table.

So we all get up to leave to go find a spot to shoot it in,

and the ball rolled

all the way to the edge and stopped.

And it was just like, "Don't forget me."

That's when the hair stood up on my arms.

After observing the strange behavior

of the sphere for several weeks,

the Betz family decided to submit it

to the military for examination.

It got interest from the Navy.

It got interest from the United States government.

And during the testing of it,

they found it was made of a stainless steel metallic alloy,

specifically the ferrous alloy number 431.

And then when it was analyzed with X-ray spectography,

the interior of the sphere was hollow

and had smaller spherical objects,

which were analyzed to have an atomic weight of 140.

Now, the largest atomic weight that we see in nature

is uranium, which is a 92.

So these smaller,

super heavy balls that were inside,

with an atomic weight of 140,

caused certain scientists to speculate

that if anyone actually tried to drill inside the sphere,

that it could be the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon,

that those elements could go into criticality

and create a massive explosion.

So the point is, this sphere has very peculiar properties

that suggest that it is in fact

some sort of artificially intelligent technology.

Do you think that it is a viable hypothesis

that at least the Navy, from the work that they did,

- knew this is not terrestrial? - Oh, absolutely.

And it was after the Navy examination... Right.

That everything seemed to basically come to a halt.

Correct.

I never got a real clarification on what happened, you know.

But now the ball has disappeared.

Is it possible the Navy discovered evidence

that the Betz sphere is of extraterrestrial origin,

and secretly confiscated it for further examination?

Gerri and her family are not interested

in talking about the sphere anymore.

They just don't want to discuss what happened with it.

Maybe nobody will ever see it again.

That's a possibility, you know?

I don't know.

To date, no one has been able to locate the sphere

or explain what it was.

But perhaps further clues may be found

by returning to the very site where the mysterious Betz sphere

was first discovered.

Talking with the Betz Family,

you thought you're dealing with really honest people

who are very puzzled about what this sphere is.

When I first talked to them, I was convinced

that all of them were telling me the truth.

Fort George Island, Florida. February 3, 2017.

Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe

is traveling with reporter Ron Kivett

to the site where a mysterious metal sphere

that displayed the uncanny ability

to move on its own was first discovered

in 1974 by the Betz family,

following a wildfire on their property.

This would have been an area where the fire would have been.

We're getting closer.

Now, this is the kind of woods

they would have found it in.

All of this here, you can see where the-the palmettos.

- Yeah. - It's thick.

It's hard to go through.

In fact, it's almost amazing.

Without the fire... -Without the fire, they probably...

They would never have found it.

Gosh.

So, the mys... There's the mystery

- of what caused the fire... - Right.

How long it had been there, and...

Was it intended to be found?

Wow.

Skeptics of the Betz sphere story