Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

4 - Temuen, The Island They Call Nan Madol
Fig 53. These balls lie here in Moeraki Bay as if they had risen from the sea. Unlike the
similar phenomenon in Costa Rica, these balls originated from natural causes -135,000,000
years ago during the Upper Cretaceous.
On the beaches and roadsides visitors to New Zealand see large round balls with diameters
up to 10 feet 5 inches. On Moeraki Beach, north of Dunedin, dozens of them of all sizes are
strewn about (Fig. 53). Having become interested in balls after seeing the artificial stone
balls of Costa Rica, I naturally examined the New Zealand variety very closely. These balls
originated from natural causes. They form in soft sandstone by deposits of calcspar around a
core. Geologists date the beginning of the formation of the balls to the Upper Cretaceous,
135,000,000 years ago. Although they are of natural origin, there are some strange varieties
among them, the so-called geodes.
A geode is a word used in geology that comes from the Greek. It consists of a stone in
which a hollow space has been caused by gas, the space being wholly or partially filled with
minerals or crystalline deposits. Geodes are not only eagerly sought after by geologists, but
also by business-like laymen who turn them into desirable trinkets for sale in gift shops by
cutting, halving, quartering and polishing them. Treasure seekers of this kind found a stone
that looked like a geode in 1961 near Olancha, on the edge of the Amargosa Desert. So they
put it in their collecting basket, the contents of which they prepared for sale on their return.
When they tried to saw through the putative geode, the diamond saw broke, because the
stone was not hollow, but solid, in spite of its appearance. Geologists who dissected the
stone found inside it an unknown stone with an iridescent surface that had been formed
under the effect of intense heat. In its core was a shining metal rod 2 millimeters in diameter
and 17 millimeters long. Strange?