Speaker 1: All right, So imagine this. You're walking across your property
and you know, just had a fire go through, the
smell of smoke is still hanging in the air, and
you find something totally strange laying there, just a perfectly smooth,
heavy metal sphere. And at first glance you might think, oh,
this is just some weird industrial parts. Someone lost this thing.
But then weeks go by, and this thing starts humming
when you play music, really starts rolling around on its own, stopping,
changing direction, almost as if it's alive. Wow, And even
some accounts of it rolling uphill.
Speaker 2: No way.
Speaker 1: This is the story of the Bets Sphere, an object
that baffled scientists and the military. And we're going to
do a deep dive on this enigma today based on
the information you share.
Speaker 2: It's one of those stories that I think as soon
as you hear it, you're just hooked.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And what's so interesting is that this is not one
of those stories where you have, you know, people who
are maybe prone to flights of fancy or anything like that.
This is a family who seemed to be pretty down
to earth, right.
Speaker 1: So Antoine and Jerry Betts, Yeah, they owned this eighty
eight acre property on Fort George Island in Florida, and
it's a spring in nineteen seventy four and a fire
had just swept through their property. And Antoine Betts was
a marine.
Speaker 2: Engineer, oh so a technical mind, a very technical.
Speaker 1: Mind, someone who you would think would be very grounded, exactly.
And Jerry Betts was an artist. And their home that
they lived in wasn't some little shack. It was a
mansion that they nicknamed the Castle. So these were not
people who were living on the fringes. These were established
members of their community.
Speaker 2: And this is important, right because it gives a sense
of credibility to what they're going to encounter in the
store that's going to unfold exactly.
Speaker 1: They weren't looking for attention, just landed in their laps,
and what they find is this sphere about eight inches
in diameters, a little smaller than a bowling ball, and
weighs a surprising twenty one pounds. So that's a heavy
little thing. Yeah. And the way they find it is
their son, Terry, who's twenty one at the time, is
walking the property after the fire and he spots this
thing laying there. Yeah, picks it up and perfectly smooth like,
there's no seams, no wells or anything, just a few
little scuffs on it. And there's one marking on it,
a tiny little three millimeters triangle that looks like it
was maybe etched or stamped into the surface.
Speaker 2: And you said, perfectly smooth metal. What kind of metal
were talking about.
Speaker 1: Well, they don't know at this point. It's just a
heavy metallic sphere. So Terry takes it home, puts it
on his window sill, and for a few weeks it
just sits there, just this.
Speaker 2: You know, inert curiosity sit in there.
Speaker 1: And then a few weeks later things start to get
really weird. All right, Well, Terry and a friend are
in his room and they're just, you know, casually playing guitar,
and they hear this faint humming sound and they kind
of look around. What is that and they realize it's
coming from the sphere, no way, and then they stop
playing the guitar, listen closely, and after about a minute,
the humming fades away and they probably think nothing of it, right,
maybe it was the house settling or something like that.
But then it happens again, and this Terry starts to
strum his guitar, very deliberately, and he realizes that this
fear is actually vibrating in response to the notes that
he's playing. Wow. And the louder he plays, the more
intense the vibrations become. And then it starts to make
this buzzing sound.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And to add another layer of weirdness, the family
dog at this point is starting to whine and act
very agitated by this.
Speaker 2: That's so interesting because you know, sometimes animals they can
perceive these subtle cues, these subtle things going on, whether
it's sound, vibrations, whatever, it is, right that we as
humans we don't pick up on. So I think that's
a really interesting detail.
Speaker 1: Definitely adds to the mystery for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so Terry, being you know, further intrigued by all this,
decides to tap it with a hammer, oh, just gently,
and instead of like a dull thud you know what
you would expect from a solid metal ball, it makes
this clear, ringing sound. Wow, almost like a bell. Okay,
And this kind of suggests that there is something going
on inside that it's not completely.
Speaker 2: Solid, right, It's not what it appears to be on
the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the sounds of vibrations were just the beginning.
Perry brings the fear into the living room to show
his parents. Yeah, he sets it down on a table
and they're all looking at it, and before anyone can
even touch it, the sphere starts to move on its own.
No one's touching it, there's no strings attached to it
or anything. This thing just starts rolling across the table.
Speaker 2: So this is the point where it moves beyond just
making sounds and you know, responding to stimuli, to actually
having this sort of what appears to be volitional movement.
Speaker 1: Self motivated movement.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the way it moves is also really strange.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It'll roll away and it'll stop abruptly, vibrate for a
little bit, and then change direction. And sometimes it'll roll
away from you and then roll back to you.
Speaker 2: Like it's coming back to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. And the duration of this varies. Sometimes it's
just a few seconds, sometimes it can last for five minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: On one occasion, it was reported to have moved on
its own for twelve minutes twelve minutes before finally coming
to a stop.
Speaker 2: So that suggests some kind of internal source of energy
or preculsion. That's keeping it going for that length of time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not like you know, if you put
a ball on a table and it rolls off the edge,
that's gravity at play. But this is just moving around
on a level surface, seemingly level surface for you know,
up to twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So they initially the family thinks, okay, maybe this is
some sort of gyroscope, but then they quickly realize that
gyroscopes don't chase people or respond to music exactly. So
they decide to do some more experiments, and they put
the sphere on their glass topped coffee table and they
push it toward the edge, and instead of falling off
the edge, it rolls right up to the brink and
then stops like it knows right, and then it'll turn
around and roll back to the center of the table.
Speaker 2: So it seems to be reacting to its environment in
some way, like it can sense those boundaries.
Speaker 1: But here's where things go from just weird to bananas,
as Jerry Bett's put it. Okay, they lift up one
end of the table to create an incline, thinking okay, well,
now it's just going to roll off, but instead of
rolling down the incline. It rolls up the incline no way. Yeah,
so it's seeming to defy gravity.
Speaker 2: That's the detail that really blows your mind. That's where
you really have to kind of re examine everything you
think you know about how the world works.
Speaker 1: And then Jerry Betts also described when she would shake
this fear and put it back down. Yeah, she said
it felt like a huge Mexican jumping bean trying to
get away from her.
Speaker 2: So there's something going on inside, right, that's responding to
that kind of education.
Speaker 1: And then they also discovered that the sphere has a
magnetic field. Okay, so paper clip will stick to it, yeah,
but you can easily remove it. But if the sphere
had been rolling around for a while, the magnetic field
would strengthen m So they noticed at one point that
the lid from a mayonnaise jar stuck to it so
strongly they couldn't even pry it off.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's a magnetic field that isn't constant.
Speaker 2: Right, variable depending on what this fear is doing.
Speaker 1: And then they even start to think maybe this thing
is solar powered because they notice when they put it
in the sun, they can feel it vibrating, and it'll
make that humming sound again, almost like a tiny motor
running inside.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And then the crazy thing is after they bring it
back inside, it would remain warm to the touch for
three days.
Speaker 2: That's so strange. That kind of heat retention is not
something you would typically expect from just solid piece of
metal unless it has an incredibly high thermal capacity or
some internal process generating heat exactly.
Speaker 1: So at this point the Betts family they know they've
got something really strange on their hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has gone way past a simple curiosity.
Speaker 1: And so after a few days of this going on,
a family friend contacts the local newspaper, the Jacksonville Journal, Okay,
and they send out a photographer, Lon Anger, who is
a very experienced photographer and skeptic.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's seen it all.
Speaker 1: He's probably seen his fair share of tall tales and
things like that. But when he goes to the Bets
house and sees this sphere rolling around on its own,
he becomes a believer.
Speaker 2: He can't deny what he's seeing, right, And so he
publishes this article on the paper, And I'm assuming this
is what really kind of catapults the story into the
public eye.
Speaker 1: It blows up. It's an instant media sensation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Bets family's phone is ringing off the hook, and
among all these calls, they get one from the US military.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 1: And they want to examine the sphere, I bet, and
Jerry Betts is understandably hesitant at first.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would be too, right. You have this
strange thing.
Speaker 1: Who knows what it is, and you've got all this
attention now, and who knows what the military is going
to do with it exactly. But with all this media
attention and with the thought that maybe this could be
some kind of unexploded ordinance, she agrees to loan it
to the navy. Okay, but she sets some very specific conditions, right,
says they can have it for two weeks. Okay, they
have to determine if it's military property, and if it's not,
they have to return it to her. And she has
them sign a contract to this effect.
Speaker 2: Wow. So she's not messing around. Nope, she wants answers.
Speaker 1: She wants answers, and she wants that sphere back. Yeah,
and she also demands a full report detailing all of
their findings. Good for her, So the Navy takes the
sphere and they do a bunch of tests on it.
They start by taking very precise measurements, confirming that it
is seven point nine six inches in diameter and twenty
one point three four pounds, so that lines up with
what the family had found. And then their analysis reveals
that the outer shell is made of a magnetic stainless
steel alloy, specifically Grade four thirty one, and they determine
that this material is incredibly strong, capable of withstanding extreme
temperatures and pressures up to one hundred and twenty thousand
pounds per square inch.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: It's huge.
Speaker 2: What kind of temperatures are we talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact number, but very high temperature.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is not your average stainless deal.
Speaker 1: No, this is something that has been very carefully and
specifically engineered. And they confirm the sphere's magnetism, and they
make this interesting discovery that it have four magnetic poles
or too positive and too negative.
Speaker 2: That's strange, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And they say that the configuration and the strength of
these poles is unusual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because typically you'd expect like a north and a
south pole right in a magnet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're already baffled by that. And then they
go to x ray the sphere, and their initial attempts
to do this fail. Really yeah, they can't x ray it. Wow,
So they have to bring in a more powerful X.
Speaker 2: Ray machine, suggesting that it's either incredibly dense or there's
something about it that's interfering with the X rays.
Speaker 1: And so the two weeks go by and the Navy
concludes that the sphere is not theirs and it doesn't
seem to pose any danger. Oh okay, so they return
it to the BET's family.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: But here's where we get another twist. The navy serviceman
who brings the sphere back he's carrying a manilla envelope.
And you'll remember that the Navy said they couldn't x.
Speaker 2: Ray this thing, right, couldn't get a clear image.
Speaker 1: But inside this envelope are X ray images.
Speaker 2: So they figured out a way to x ray it.
Speaker 1: Apparently that show the entire internal structure of the sphere.
And what they allegedly show is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: Lay it on me.
Speaker 1: The sphere has a very thick outer shell about half
an inch, and inside there are multiple layers of steel
with different densities, And at the very center there is
a hollow area about the size of an apple. And
inside that hollow area are three smaller spheres.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And each of these smaller spheres has tiny little wires
attached to them.
Speaker 2: Hold on, how did they even get in there?
Speaker 1: That was the question. There are no seams, no weld marks,
no drill holes anywhere on this thing.
Speaker 2: You said that earlier.
Speaker 1: So how do they get these three smaller spheres inside?
Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: Did they ever try and figure that out, Navy or
anybody else?
Speaker 1: Well, the Navy scientists, they're baffled by this, and they
want to drill into the sphere to get a better
look at these internal components. But Jerry Betts says, absolutely not. Really,
you know, this thing is already acting crazy. Who knows
what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: If they drill into it, you might unleash something who
knows exactly.
Speaker 1: And as all this is unfolding, as you might imagine,
theories about the sphere start popping up.
Speaker 2: I bet alien origin story number one.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, given that the Navy can't explain it, and
they don't know what it is, and it's doing all
these strange things. The idea that it might be extraterrestrial
in origin is a popular theory.
Speaker 2: It's a natural conclusion to jump to.
Speaker 1: People are speculating maybe it's an alien listening device, or
a probe, or some kind of unknown technology. The Betts family,
at first, they're skeptical of these ideas, but after everything
that's happened, they're starting to think, well, maybe it's possible.
Speaker 2: I mean, at that point, what other explanation is there?
Speaker 1: And so, still looking for answers, they reach out to
the scientific community.
Speaker 2: Okay, they want to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 1: Yes. The first scientist to examine the sphere is a
doctor Carl Williston, representing the Omega minus one Institute. Okay,
and he spent six hours conducting tests, and he reports
some really interesting findings.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: He says that the sphere is emitting radio waves.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: He confirms the four magnetic polls, but can't explain their configuration.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: He says it defies the laws of physics. He sees
this sphere moving independently on its own. Confirms that the
exterior is stainless steel grade four thirty one. Right, But
then he also says that he's found traces of an
unknown element, an unknown element that's extremely heavy. And this
is where it gets even weirder. Okay, there is no
record that a doctor Carl Williston ever existed, really, and
no record of this omega minus one institute.
Speaker 2: So this mysterious doctor Williston shows up, does all these
tests and then disappears.
Speaker 1: It's possible that doctor Willison and was an alias, possibly
a foreign operative, maybe trying to get information about this sphere.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: So the next scientist to end of the scene is
doctor James Harder, who is an engineering professor, and he
becomes a trusted advisor to the Betts family.
Speaker 2: So they're bringing in somebody who they feel like they
can rely on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're at a point where they need some guidance.
And he reportedly confirms some of doctor Willison's findings, including
the strange magnetic polls, but his analysis of the internal
spheres is really shocking. He says that they appear to
be made of a material with an atomic number of one,
forty one.
Speaker 2: Or forty Okay, so for context, the highest atomic number
on the periodic table naturally occurring element is ninety two
which is uranium, and scientists have created some elements artificially,
but I think the highest they had gotten to at
this point was one hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 2: So one is way beyond anything that was known on
Earth at that time.
Speaker 1: And so doctor Harder speculates that maybe this fear is
a damage alien probe or even an anti gravity device,
given that it was seen rolling uphill.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if it did have this element with
an atomic number of one hundred and forty, who knows
what kind of properties it would have.
Speaker 1: And then a third scientist enters the picture, doctor j
Allen heinek.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now this is a name that people might recognize, a.
Speaker 1: Very famous astronomer and professor, and most people know him
for his work as a UFO advisor to the US.
Speaker 2: Air Force, right like Project Blue Book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so his involvement kind of lends this air of,
you know, serious scientific credibility to the whole thing. And
he comes in and he also confirms some of the
previous findings. But while all this is going on, we
have another weird incident. Okay, this group of men show
up at the Betts house and they say they're scientists.
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 1: And they offer Jerry an astounding seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in cash for the sphere.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in today's money that would be almost four
million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's a serious offer.
Speaker 1: But something about these guys makes Jerry suspicious.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd be suspicious too, right, And.
Speaker 1: So when they ask to see the sphere, she tells
them it's not available right now and declines their offer,
which makes them very angry. And after they leave, the
family looks into their backgrounds and it turns out their
story was totally made up.
Speaker 2: Wow, so they weren't scientists at all. They were posing
as scientist And.
Speaker 1: This incident really freaks out the Betts family. I bet
they're thinking that maybe a foreign government is after the
sphere or some other powerful entities, and so, feeling increasingly
vulnerable and still not having any answers, they make the
decision to send their son Terry with the sphere to
a UFO panel organized by the National Inquirer.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's an interesting choice.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds strange. We all know the Inquirer's reputation,
but this particular panel was made up of some pretty
respected figures, including doctor Heinek and doctor Harder and a
bunch of PhD holders and a former Supreme Court justice
and a former US Attorney General.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a pretty impressive lineup.
Speaker 1: So they're thinking, maybe if we bring this thing in
front of all these experts, yeah, we'll get some answers.
Speaker 2: They're hoping that the scientific rigor of the panel will
kind of outweigh any sensationalism exactly that might come with
the inquirer.
Speaker 1: And so they do that. And while Terry is there
with the sphere at this panel, doctor Heinez says that
he thinks it's probably a man made object. Okay, but
this is despite the fact that multiple people at the
panel reported seeing the sphere roll uphill on a piece
of plexiglass.
Speaker 2: Wait, uphill from a complete standstill.
Speaker 1: From a complete standstill, Yeah, and nobody could explain this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that directly contradicts his assessment of it being man
made exactly.
Speaker 1: And then when the idea of drilling into the sphere
is brought up again, doctor hard He issues a very
serious warning.
Speaker 2: What does he say?
Speaker 1: He says that if this sphere really does contain material
with an atomic number of one hundred and forty that
trying to drill into it could cause it to go.
Speaker 2: Critical critical, like a nuclear reaction.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, and.
Speaker 1: This really reinforces Jerry Betts's earlier decision to not let
anyone drill into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if there's a chance of setting off a nuclear reaction,
and that's probably a good idea to not drill into it.
Speaker 1: And then we have another bizarre twist. Well, Terry is
at the Inquirer's office with fear. Okay, he gets a
phone call saying that his mother has been in an accident.
Oh no, and he tries to call his mom back
but he can't get through.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And so he flies back home to Florida immediately, leaving
the sphere behind. And when he gets home, thankfully, his
mom is perfectly fine. The call was a hoax.
Speaker 2: Wow, So somebody was trying to separate Terry from the sphere.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and Jerry Betts is furious.
Speaker 2: I would be too.
Speaker 1: She tells him to go back to the Inquirer immediately
and get the sphere back right. So he flies back
to the Inquirer and they're giving him the run around. Really, Yeah,
they're stalling, and they're not telling him where it is.
Eventually they admit that the UFO panel has taken this
sphere to New Orleans for more.
Speaker 2: Testing, so they basically stole it pretty much.
Speaker 1: So Terry drives down in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Wow, he's determined to get this thing back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when he gets there, he finds the sphere
is being guarded by the Navy.
Speaker 2: Wait. I thought the Navy was done with this thing.
Speaker 1: They said they were, so.
Speaker 2: Why are they involved again?
Speaker 1: Oh, nobody knows. They tell Terry that he can't go
near the sphere while they're doing.
Speaker 2: Tests, even though it's his family's property.
Speaker 1: Right. And so the tests in New Orleans apparently don't
yield any new information. And after a lot of arguing,
Terry finally gets the sphere back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as he's leaving the facility, some reporters ask him
to make this spear do some of its tricks. Yeah.
And the Betts family had been transporting the sphere in
a bowling bag because it wouldn't stay still at home, right,
So Terry sends it down on the ground to show
the reporters what it can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nothing, It's completely inert it won't vibrate, it won't hum,
it won't roll.
Speaker 2: What could have caused that, right, I mean, what could
have happened?
Speaker 1: Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: So the sphere is essentially dead now.
Speaker 1: It seems like it. So he takes it back to
Florida and they have it re examined our right again,
and the results are shocking. It no longer has the
four magnetic poles.
Speaker 2: They're gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the new X rays show a seam on
the surface that was not.
Speaker 2: There before, So somebody got into it.
Speaker 1: It looks like the sphere was open and resealed or
possibly even replaced.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And inside, instead of the three smaller spheres, it now
contains only dust.
Speaker 2: So they took the spheres and the wires out.
Speaker 1: It seems like it. Oh my gosh. Yes. So at
this point doctor Harter warns the Bets family to be
very careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He says he doesn't trust doctor Heinech Yeah, and even
suggests that Heinech might have been involved in switching out
the sphere. Interesting. To make this story even weirder.
Speaker 2: There's more.
Speaker 1: Years later, after doctor Heinig passes away, his son Paul,
reveals that their family had possessed a silver sphere hmm,
that his father claimed was from a UFO case in Florida, Okay,
and this silver sphere was later stolen from doctor Heinick's home.
Speaker 2: That's very suspicious timing.
Speaker 1: It is, so the original Betts sphere stops working after
doctor Heinick is alone with it, and then a different
sphere from a UFO case in Florida shows up in
doctor Heineck's possession and is then stolen. And by this point,
the Betts family they're exhausted. They've got the media hounding them,
they're worried about the government watching them.
Speaker 2: It must have been overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Jerry Betts is even physically assaulted by someone posing as
a repairman.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So they decide to withdraw from public life completely.
Speaker 2: It's understandable.
Speaker 1: They sell their house on Fort George Island. Wow, they
leave the area, They stop giving interviews.
Speaker 2: They just want to be left alone. And what about
the sphere? What happened to that?
Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Jerry Betts is still alive today, and she
has a blog where she talks about her artwork in
her life. Yeah, but she never ever mentions the sphere.
Speaker 2: So the mystery continues.
Speaker 1: It does, and to this day, the bet sphere remains
a mystery.
Speaker 2: So do we have any good theories about what this
thing could have been besides aliens? Well, one of.
Speaker 1: The more plausible theories is that it was a piece
of space debris. Okay, maybe a part of a down
satellite or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But the problem with this theory is that satellites and
things like that are made of metal alloys, right, and
they have scenes rivetts connectors, and the bet sphere was
perfectly smooth.
Speaker 2: Right, no signs of any of that exactly, So that
kind of pokes a hole in that theory.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And another theory connects it to the food fighters.
Speaker 2: The mysterious lights seen by pilots during World War Two.
Speaker 1: Exactly, But there's no real evidence to connect the food
fighters with this particular sphere.
Speaker 2: It's more like people are grasping its straws trying to
find an explanation.
Speaker 1: Right. And then you've got the really out there theory
that it was some ancient alien atomic weapon.
Speaker 2: That's a wild one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some people point to ancient texts. It's like the
Maha Barata that described these really powerful weapons.
Speaker 2: It's a fun theory.
Speaker 1: But there's no evidence to back it up, right. And
then a more mundane theory is that it was just
an industrial ball check valve.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's that.
Speaker 1: It's a piece of equipment used to regulate the flow
of liquids or gases and pipes. And an artist named
James Durling Jones, he claimed that he lost his fear
like this a few years before the Bets family found theirs. Okay,
he said he was collecting scrap metal and it fell
off his Volkswagen bus. All right, But there are some
problems with this theory, like what First of all, Jones said,
his sphere weighed about seven or eight pounds, Okay, the
bet sphere was twenty one pounds.
Speaker 2: That's pretty big difference.
Speaker 1: And second, the Bets family found the sphere deep in
the woods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, like a mile from the road, about.
Speaker 1: A mile from the nearest So could a seven pound
spear roll that far on its own through the woods?
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe, but it seems unlikely it does.
Speaker 1: And some people have also suggested that maybe this spear
wasn't actually moving on its own, okay, that maybe it
was the uneven tile floors and the Bets's homes.
Speaker 2: Oh, so the sphere was just reacting to the slopes
in the floor, right, But that wouldn't explain how it
would change direction.
Speaker 1: Right or stop or roll back to the person who
rolled it. Yeah, gravity doesn't.
Speaker 2: Explain that, and it also wouldn't explain the accounts from
all the other witnesses we saw it move.
Speaker 1: And another interesting point is that after all this happened,
a president of a local supply company showed a reporter
a brand new stainless steel ball made by Belle Howell. Okay,
and it was very similar in size and weight to
the Bets.
Speaker 2: Sphere, So it could have been something like that.
Speaker 1: It's possible. But the thing is that the Betts family
never tried to profit from this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they never tried to like sell it or write
a book about it exactly.
Speaker 1: They just wanted answers. So it's really a fascinating puzzle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got this strange object.
Speaker 1: Made of this incredibly strong material.
Speaker 2: With this crazy internal structure.
Speaker 1: And the ability to move on its own.
Speaker 2: And react to sound and light, and then it disappears
or gets swapped out right, and we're left with more
questions than answers.
Speaker 1: It's a mystery that endures to this day.
Speaker 2: So what do you think happened?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think the bet sphere serves
as a good reminder that there are still things in
this world that we just don't understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that some mysteries may never be solved.
Speaker 1: And so we turn it over to you, our listener. Yeah,
what do you think about the bet sphere? What's the
most compelling explanation in your mind? And why?
Speaker 2: And what kind of evidence would we need to finally
put this mystery to rest.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating story, and we encourage you to keep
exploring the bet sphere based on what we've talked about today.
Speaker 2: There are lots of resources out there.
Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe one day the truth will finally
come out.
Speaker 2: I hope so me too.