Out of Place, Out of Time

One of the most profound mysteries involving the presence of either alien beings or humans, long before such a thing was supposed to exist, can be explored through the existence of the many artifacts discovered buried and embedded in rock strata far too old to explain. Ooparts, Out Of Place Artifacts in Relation to Time and Space, have been cropping up for centuries. They include everything from fossilized footprints to metallic objects made of non-naturally occurring alloys. Often these objects are discovered in rock formed millions of years ago when nothing even remotely human should have existed.

One such artifact that has recently gained popular notice is the "London Hammer" found in 1934 near London, Texas. Embedded in Cretaceous rock between 75 and 100 million years old is a wooden handled iron hammer. The metal was tested and found to be 96% iron with 2.6% chlorine and .74% sulfur with no carbon at all. The casting was so good that there were virtually no air bubbles in the iron, a feat that is nearly impossible even with today's technology. Although the wood of the handle has become somewhat coalified with inclusions of quartz and calcite it is still a very recognizable oval-shaped hammer handle.

Interestingly, it is also in Texas that fossilized human footprints were discovered in a layer of limestone that intersected and overlapped tracks made by a dinosaur. Such footprints have been found in other parts of North America as well. One such print, found in Antelope Springs, Utah, even had a trilobite embedded in the print which appears to be made by a shoe. This would make the print's origin over 200 million years old.

In a rare moment of semi-disclosure, the Smithsonian Magazine ran an article about anomalous footprints in their July 1992 issue. "Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts" by the paleontologist Jerry MacDonald details some of his findings of fossilized tracks of birds and other beasts in stone far too old to carry such things as they had not yet emerged at that time. While acknowledging that these tracks were "problematic" in that it clearly conflicts with current evolutionary theories, the mention of the distinctive human footprints also in the rock were conveniently missing from the article's text.

Now the question must be brought forth, are humans a much older species that seems likely or possible? Were these tracks and artifacts even made and used by humans or was there someone else here long before the emergence of Cro-Magnon man onto the planet? Such objects do tend to give weight to the theory that we are somehow descended from entities that came to this planet long ago and eventually created us "in their image" as it were. According to the translated texts found in Sumarian archives, the Annunaki did come here long ago to explore and mine the planet. Did they leave behind these anomalous artifacts? Is it possible that science has everything wrong about the timeline of evolution? Or will we someday discover alien roots in our own existence as we search for the origins of these out of place objects?

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