This Betz Sphere Mysterious Ball, Found In 1974 In The US, Could Move On Its Own

March 27, 1974, was quite a remarkable day for the Betz family residing in Florida. The Betz family were investigating a small brush fire near their residence and came across a mysterious sphere called the Betz sphere. Soon they became the talk of the town through magazines and local newspapers as they claimed that the ball used to roll on its own and used to reverberate at times. What exactly is the mystery behind the Betz Sphere? An Instagram post about this is going viral now. The Betz family was a resident of Fort George Island in Florida, USA. The family of three – Antoine, Jerri and their son Terry came across a metal sphere, which is the size of a bowling ball. The family took the ball home. After several days, the family noticed something odd about the ball. When their son was playing the guitar, the ball reacted to the sound and made a throbbing noise. They even claimed that the sphere would roll, stop or change its direction on its own. The Betz family further claimed that the ball would follow them around the house. Hence, they put it in a trunk.

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The caption of the post read, “Betz Mystery Sphere Part 4: Where Is It? In the spring of 1974, an enigmatic orb known as the Betz Sphere came crashing down creating a cyclone of controversy before disappearing just as cryptically. In the decades that followed the mystery has only deepened, leaving lingering questions such as: What was it? Where did it come from? And—most alarmingly considering its destructive potential—who has it now?”

A weekly podcast named Skeptoid by Brian Andrew Dunning analysed the media reports and concluded that the mysterious orb might be a ball check valve as its size, weight and metallurgical composition matched with a particular company’s ball check valve. He also clarified that the ball moving on its own could be because of the way the house was constructed – old and uneven floors, which may have caused the perfectly balanced sphere to move or change direction with just a little indentation. Skeptoid also found media reports of an artist who collected scrap metal for sculptures and had loaded ball check valves on the rooftop luggage of his vehicle. The balls rolled off and were lost.

As per The Sun, the metal ball found by the Betz family, which was named as Betz Mystery Sphere, weighed 22 pounds (10 kg) with a diameter of 8 inches (20 cm).