If you're eagerly waiting for someone to finally find a flying saucer - and prove once and for all that the Terrans aren't alone in the Universe - know that alleged fragments of one of them were discovered in a British museum. Well, actually, it was more or less that!

Surprising discovery

In fact, what happened was this: According to the BBC, a guy named Khalil Thirlaway, who is organizing exhibitions at the London Science Museum - was scouring the institution's archives for related material. with historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith when he came across some rather strange artifacts.

Artifacts Found Among Historian's Things (BBC / David Clarke)

Gibbs-Smith, just to put it better, was a well-known British aviation and aviation scholar - who was also close at hand on subjects related to the sighting of UFOs and alleged flying saucers (like many of us, right?). For while searching the historian's things, Khalil came across some fragments of metal.

Briskly, Khalil contacted David Clarke, a professor at Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire, England, and invited him to take a look at the objects. That's where the surprise came from! What they had in their hands were fragments of a supposed flying saucer that would have crashed around Scarborough, a city on the shores of the North Sea.

British roswell

The case took place on February 8, 1957, when three men roaming the wilderness area known as Silpho Moor came across a mysterious artifact. The object, which was about 12 inches long, was made of metal, had a thin layer of copper at the bottom covered with unintelligible drawings and writings that resembled hieroglyphics, and carried a small booklet also filled with mysterious messages.

Newspaper clip of the era and current photo of the place where the mysterious artifact was found (BBC / Yorkshire Post / Mick Garratt)

The story involving the small flying saucer - which, by the way, “landed” on Earth just three weeks after the launch of the Soviet man-made Sputnik satellite, gained immense notoriety and was even compared to the famous Roswell Case involving the alleged alien spacecraft that would have crashed in New Mexico, USA, in 1947.

Obviously, the metal disk was examined, manipulated and dismantled - all in an attempt to establish whether it was of alien, terrestrial origin or part of an elaborate hoax. According to Rafi Letzter of the Live Science website, he even had a coffee shop owner in Scarborough who came out telling everyone that he had been able to decipher one of the messages recorded in the booklet, saying it was an ET alert that said that If humanity did not improve, it would eventually disappear.

Look at that flying saucer over there (BBC / John Dale)

Anyway ... experts from various fields used the technologies available at the time to study the pieces and tests performed by the staff of the University of Manchester and the Museum of Natural History determined that the artifact was of terrestrial origin indeed, as it showed no signs of have never traveled to space - who will say they came from there! The pity is that from so much passing from one scientist's hand to another, the fragments were eventually lost and only now have some of them been rediscovered in the Science Museum!

Objects found among Gibbs-Smith documents (BBC / David Clarke)

According to the BBC, the objects found in the museum's archives have been forgotten for about 50 years among Gibbs-Smith's stuff, but Khalil and Clarke are already thinking of catching up and organizing an exhibition about the curious fragments. By the way, maybe the discovery of these pieces does not motivate other searches and new parts of the flying saucer - only not - end up appearing, right?