IFL Science
By James Felton
February 16, 2024
Klerksdorp spheres, found inside pyrophyllite deposits mined in South Africa, are weird. Looking like tiny ancient cricket balls, with seam-like lines around their middle, it’s easy to see why they became the subject of conspiracy theories involving aliens and ancient, forgotten civilizations.
In articles in the 1980s, they were speculated to be made by “a higher civilisation, a pre-flood civilisation about which we know virtually nothing”, while the same museum curator who said this claimed that the spheres rotated of their own accord while locked in a “vibration-free” display case.