Ancient Anomalies (ooparts)

Hello everyone,
While surfing the internet some time ago I came across a website about strange things such as orbs ect. But on this site i also learnt about strange Out Of Place Artifacts (ooparts), and being a relatively new member of ATS i've decided I would share some of the information i've come across while looking into ooparts and other Ancient Anomalies (Sorry if someone has posted something similar to this before).
Ancient Anomalies
While checking it out be sure to go to "The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts".

On the original website where i learnt about ooparts there was a story about a knife that the creater of the website had come across. The man had purchased it from a person who was selling numerous items from their house. The item was a rock that was examined and found to be thousands of years old with something like a 1970's knife stuck in it, and the original owner claimed it had been given to him by his grandpa who had the rock since the 1940's. (or something like this, i read it a long time ago). It was implied that someone who had a 1970's knife travelled back in time and dropped the knife or something. If anyone can find the original website i wouldn't mind having another read of it.

What do people think of these ooparts? Depending on the artifact some people explain them as the result of aliens ect, while others suggest they are evidence of time travel (such as the knife in the rock). I also found the grooved spheres very interesting, with one website saying how they had been sent to NASA and it was discovered that they were almost perfectly balanced and that there was no was anyone of this earth could have created them.

Anyone care to suggest how these items exist, particularly ones with "modern" items being found where they shouldn't be.

Thanks for your time.

I think there could be some ooparts, but sorry, i couldnt find the website you were talking about... but it does seem very interesting though.. did you see the articles on the Dropa Stones? i thought that was very interesting too. maybe we aren't alone. but good topic!

Ooparts are fascinating. I think there are a variety of explanations, and of course some are just plain unexplained. I will make reference to this article: Ten Mysteries

Some, like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Baghdad Battery, are accepted as legitimate artifacts. They demonstrate that the ancients were smarter than we usually give them credit for. I think a lot of ooparts fall into this category. Archaeologists try to piece together past history as best they can, but it is clear that our understanding is incomplete.

Some things like the South African metal spheres may be misunderstood natural phenomena. Many difficult to categorize artifacts disappear into small museums or private collections and are never thoroughly analyzed by scientists.

Some things like the Dropa stones seem to exist on the edge of myth. Clearly some artifacts were discovered, but only a very few photos exist. The objects themselves seem to have disappeared. Search the Internet, and you will find a whole lot of sites all repeating the same sketchy details and rumors.

Some are mistakes or frauds. I believe the Coso Artifact has been debunked, and did indeed turn out to be a fairly modern spark plug. So who were the experts who “estimated that it should have taken about 500,000 years for this fossil-encrusted nodule to form?”

Some things, we just don’t know what they are. The “ancient model aircraft” from Egypt and South America sure do look like airplanes. But we don’t know what they meant to the ancients.
I have a pet theory about some of these. I believe that the ancients may have excelled in the psychic sciences, and that some of these artifacts may represent the kind of visions that today we call remote viewing. To suggest that they had visions of the future is kind of far-out, but not nearly as far-out as suggesting they actually had flying machines.

Many of these artifacts are dated indirectly. Since metal and stone cannot be “carbon dated,” scientists usually try to determine the age geologically of the surrounding rocks. This can result in inconsistencies when artifacts fall into deep cracks or sink into mud.

I guess in the end each artifact has to be considered on its individual merits. Sorting out the different possibilities is what makes it such a fascinating mystery.