Someone else identified it as a valve used to manufacture pulp paper this didn’t hold up either. One man suggested the ball was a device used to measure ocean tides, but when immersed in water it sank. But we go along with the speculation that it could be anything.” We’ve never said this is anything extraterrestrial. “I thought somebody would come forward and say, ‘Look, Terry, I know what it is and I’ve got two or three more down at the shop, come on down and have a look.’ But nobody did. News of the ball appeared in newspapers and on radio and television, but nobody could identify it. It’ll get over toward the other edge, then stop and set out in a new direction. “You can set it in the middle of a table – we’ve got a rosewood dining room table and we checked it with a spirit level and it’s level – and the ball will roll in one direction until it gets almost to the edge, and then it’ll stop and turn around and come back. Terry described the peculiar abilities of the ball. With a fluoroscope they could see it has a half-inch-thick shell and three smaller spheres inside, thin wires or lines of some sort, and some fine dust or sand. “The Navy did a spectroanalysis and they said it’s made of 431 stainless steel, one of the hardest stainless steels known. “The outside is smooth but not really shiny you can see that things have knocked up against it,” he said. It was resting under a palmetto bush on an 80-acre tract of land near his parents’ home outside Jacksonville. Terry Matthews, a 21-year-old pre-med student at Florida Junior College, discovered the wonderful ball last March. Set in motion by a twist of the hand, it would wander around drunkenly for up to ten minutes, giving off little rattling noises. It was said to be eight inches in diameter, 22 pounds in weight, made of stainless steel and capable of performing odd feats. At the Ancient Astronauts Conference there was talk about the wonderful ball.
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