The Pitoni Skystones

The Skystone was discovered in 1990 by Angelo Pitoni, an archaeologist and geologist, in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Local legends stated that the stones were actually beings that once lived in the sky. Pitoni sent the stone for analysis to laboratories in Rome, Germany, Switzerland, and Tokyo. Researchers concluded that the stone was different from any other stone found on Earth, probably originating outside the planet.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So this episode is about the PotoniSkystones. So in nineteen ninety an Italian
geologist named Angelo Patoni visited a SierraLeone, West Africa, and he was
on the search for diamonds. Hewas working for a company and they sent
him there to find some fucking gems. So he's studying in the Kono District,

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which is the eastern province of SarahLeone, and this was in a
little village just outside of a placecalled Freetown. He came across this crazy
ass discovery. He was shown oneof these really weird blue stones that he
could not really identify. He thoughtthey were Turquois at first, and he

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was shown them by a Fullah chief, which is like a tribal headman of
the area. And like I said, he said, it resembled a pure
turquoise, which would have been similarto some that were found on the pectorals
of Egyptian priests. So he's like, hell, yeah, man got some
pure turquoise. And the chief startedtelling him this ancient legend behind these stones,

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and then he also explained why thearea was so rich in minerals.
And according to the legend, thestones were the angels who used to live
in the sky. Now God foundout that these angels were planning to revolt,
so he expelled them down to Earthfor their wrongdoings, and they were

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turned into statues and remained buried beneaththe soil. But they did not arrive
alone on Earth. Instead, theybrought a portion of the sky and stars
with them, and that is whythe area is so rich in minerals and
diamonds. So Potoni starts looking atthese stones and he's just mesmerized by him,

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so he decides to bring them toEurope for examination. He took them
to the Institute of Natural Sciences inGeneva and the University Las Sapienza in Rome
for analysis, and he thought thestones, like I said, were turquoise,
but he was way fucking wrong.The test showed that the stones did

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not match with any known mineral,and many researchers, like many, I'll
name a few more, they allfailed to determine where the blue color actually
came from as well. So thePotoni skystones, which they are now known
as underwent more tests at the Universityof Utrecht where they were exposed to asses

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to alter their composition, but nothinghappened to them. Crazy enough, they
were heated up to three thousand degreescelsius, but their composition did not change
at all. A lot of theseresearchers would look at these stones under microscopes
and shit like that, and theywere convinced that the stones had not been

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made naturally and might not be fromEarth. Then the stones were sent to
Germany and Tokyo for analysis as well. So here's what they found out.
All these studies came to the conclusionthat the stones were made up of about
seventy seven percent oxygen, twenty percentcarbon lime. Some traces of silicone and

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other materials that were unidentified were alsofound in it. One of the researchers
said, the composition makes the skystone similar to a kind of concrete or
stucco and seems to have been artificiallycolored. The natives living in the area
where the stone was found already knewabout its existence because the stone like artifact

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used to pop out during digs inthe area. Now more preliminary tests were
done with X rays. It wasdetermined that the blue stone was composed mainly
of calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate,and calcium silicate. And if that wasn't
wild enough, none of these testswere able to explain how the stone got

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that blue color. Again, scientistsspeculated that copper or some other transition material
could be responsible for the color ofit, but they were unable to detect
any materials in sufficient quantities to confirmthat theory. Then they did plasma spectometry
and they did an analysis that way, and they reduced the oxygen level to

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fifty out of one hundred or fiftyfive out of one hundred at the most,
which is apparently normal in any rock. All these other weird things started
popping up about these stones, too, so they submitted the stone to gas
chromatography, which tried to locate anorganic compound in the rock, and they

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were looking for some sort of inkthat gives this stone it's blue color.
So researchers then decided to crush onepiece of the rock and they mixed it
with acetone, hexane, and methyleneand enhanced the extractions with ultrasound. Finally,
the researchers were able to detect anorganic compound, but that compound was

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unknown to science. The Skystone doesin fact have a non mineral element in
its composition, but that doesn't reallytell us much because that element is unknown.
The organic compound present in the skyRock is believed to be between fifteen
thousand and fifty five thousand years old, and that's when it was ruled out

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that the stone was a fraud becausethe molecular formula of this rock cannot be
traced back to anything we know onEarth. Carbon dating revealed that the age
of the stones was found to bebetween twenty five hundred and seventeen thousand years
old. And even weirder than that, these stones are always found in soil

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layers dating back to at least twelvethousand BC. Now, due to the
weird composition and the really unique lookof it. These stones became super valuable
in the market. They also appearedat a weekend market and Marrakesh, Morocco,

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and they were called kryptonite. Thereis some skepticism behind the identity of
Patoni. Some online sources do saythat he was a self proclaimed botanist,
a gemstone expert, honored and decoratedSpecial Forces operative, a guy who discovered
Mayan statues, and he was linkedto other archaeological sites. But his credibility

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is really doubted because nobody could findout what universities or institutes he was actually
linked to. Then a story startsto revolve around an American artist in designer
by the name of Jared Collins.In twenty thirteen, Jared Collins was on

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a trip in Asia and he wasin search of some rare gems and minerals
and he met a gem dealer inHong Kong. Collins called the dealer and
asked him to pay a visit tohis small apartment and after searching like hundreds
of bags of just full of gemslike nothing surprised him. It was all
shit that he had really seen beforeuntil he saw this weird shaped rock with

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white veins running through it. Andhere's how Collins described it. It was
a curious thing with a very prettyblue color. And when I picked up
the stone to examine it, itwas strangely light for its size, and
I thought it was some sort ofa synthesized or hybrid wax or plastic material,
yet it simultaneously appeared to be anatural stone of some kind. It

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was perplexing, and I had noidea what I was looking at, and
I had no point of reference tocompare it to anything else I had previously
seen or handled before. It's fuckingwild, right, So this Hong Kong
dealer tells Collins this strange story ofhow the rocks fell from the sky,

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you know, the same story thatPotoni heard. They even sent a sample
of the rock to Swiss labs,where they were tested by a guy named
doctor Pretty. They waited for fuckingmonths for these results to come back,
and the doctor could not say anything. Really, he didn't know much about
it, and he concluded that thesample belonged to some kind of unidentified material.

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So Collins is like, I wantto fucking buy a piece of this,
and the dealer's like, now it'snot for sale, as it turns
out the Skystone was the only thingin the room that day that was not
going to be made available for sale, and with Jared Collins, it was
the only fucking thing that he wasinterested in, that was the only thing

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he wanted to walk out of therewith. He got nothing, So after
he leaves Hong Kong, he can'tstop thinking about the sky Stone, so
he tried to find the stone insome other places so he could get it
and obtain more information on it,but he failed. The only place where
the stone was known to exist publiclywas that Eric van Donikin's museum called the

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Mystery Park in Switzerland. So hegets a hold of the museum and he
wrote a letter to buy a smallpiece off of one of their two large
stones. They rejected him. SoCollins is like getting fucking desperate about this
right now. So he ends upgetting ahold of that jem dealer in Hong
Kong again and tries to get himto sell him the stone again, and

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they exchanged a bunch of emails andphone calls, and Collins made a proposal
to the dealer and he accepted it. So he sent the small cutaway piece,
which was the one that was previouslysent to doctor Preddy for examination.
He sent that to Collins with allthe information that he had about it.
The gem dealer wrote in his letterthat he had received this piece from an

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Italian man named Vijay. He said, I heard that story from Vijay and
I asked him if he could sellme a few pieces from whatever he had
remaining. His friend had visited thatprofessor Pittoni directly in Italy. Upon hearing
of the existence of the stone whichhad been collected by that professor, I

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bought several fragments and sold all butthe remaining two pieces you saw at my
house, including the small cutaway whichyou now possess. So Collins is like,
Okay, who's this fucking Vijay guy. He tracked this dude down and
got a hold of him through email, and Vijet told him that the piece
of stone had first been discovered byAngelo Patoni when he was in the Sierra

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Leone. Viget wrote to Collins,and here's what he said. A local
shaman then brought him to a placewhere there were some pieces of this blue
material on the ground. Digging intothe ground, Potoni found over two hundred
kilograms of it, which was notin a natural formation, but rather set
in a pyramid shape. I waslater shown photocopies of a report from a

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geologist stating that the material could notbe identified. It's fucking strange, right,
So Collins decided to take this shipto the max with that small little
piece that he had. Over thecourse of five years, this stone was
studied by universities, independent scientists,and laboratories, and nobody could identify the

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origin and the creation mechanism of thesky stone. Fucking wild, right,
let me stay this a couple ofsources real quick, you got time for
disclosure, Archaeologyworld dot com, Projectyourself dot com, and I mean there's
a shill out of other sources,but they all pretty much say the same

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damn thing, like there's really notmuch you can say about it because they
don't even know what the fuck theseare made of or how they're even blue.
They found an organic compound, butit's not from Earth. It's an
unknown fucking material, so I don'tknow. Not a bad little bonus episodes,
Pretty damn interesting, I thought.Yeah, anyway, I hope you

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guys enjoyed that. And until nexttime, I will see you later.