Mountains. Much to their surprise however, when they later cut the geode in half with a diamond
saw, instead of a collection of crystals as one would expect, they found an obviously artificial
object inside it.
The encased object had a metal core surrounded by layers of a ceramic-like material and a
hexagonal (now petrified) wooden sleeve (fig.23). To the surprise of all, when X-rayed, the object
appeared to very closely resemble a modern day spark plug or some other electronic component
(fig.24), showing far too many striking similarities to be just casually dismissed (fig 25).
The obvious problem here is that it was found encased inside a fossil encrusted geode that was
an estimated to be around 500,000 years old!
Fig.23The last known person to be in possession of the intriguing Coso artifact was one of the original
people who discovered it a Mr. Wallace Lane. Lane kept the object at home with him but flatly
refused to display it to anyone during his later years. It is thought that Wallace Lane has since
died and the current location of the artifact unfortunately remains unknown.
(The artifact) (a champion spark plug)
Fig.24 Fig.25
Stone Age ‘Modern’ Hand Tools
Do you realize how long it takes for an object to fossilize? We are told that the process literally
takes millions of years. Consider then that a group of workers quarrying limestone in 1786 came
across an amazing artifact in an underground sand bed about 50 feet below ground level. In the
layer of sand they found the stumps of stone pillars and fragments of half-worked rock and after
digging a little further, they discovered coins, petrified wooden hammers handles, and pieces of
other petrified wooden hand tools. The sand in which the discovery was made was lies beneath a
layer of limestone that has been dated to be at least 300 million years old and still more recent
discoveries of petrified tools have occurred since then: