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Carschenna above Thusis in the parish of Sils in the canton of Graubunden, barely twenty miles from my home town. What has come to light so far? Rock faces and plaques covered with large numbers of spheres, circles, spirals and circles with rays. Why did I have to travel round the world, when the proofs of my theory were right outside my front door? Spheres surrounded by rays, eggs and flying spheres are not only found on cave walls and cliffs, ancient stone reliefs and cylinder seals, but also in the round, made of hard stone, in many different parts of the world—generally scattered indiscriminately and in inhospitable country. In the USA, for example, balls have been found in Tennessee, Arizona, California and Ohio. In 1940, Professor Marcel Hornet, the archaeologist now living in Stuttgart and author of the well- known book Sons of the Sun, discovered a gigantic stone egg 328 ft long and 98 ft high on the upper Rio Branco in North Amazonas, Brazil. On this colossal block, which was called Piedra Pintada (painted stone), Hornet found countless letters, crosses and sun symbols over a surface area of some 700 sq yards. He assured me in conversation that there was not the slightest doubt mat this magnificent specimen was no freak of nature, but stonemason's work carried out by countless hands over many decades. But the real archaeological sensation in the ball line awaits its solution in the small Central American state of Costa Rica. There hundreds, if not thousands, of artificial stone balls lie about in the middle of the jungle and on high mountains, in river deltas and on hilltops. Their diameters vary between a few inches and eight feet. The heaviest ball excavated to date weighs eight tons! I had heard about this sensation and because of it I spent ten days in Costa Rica, a typical developing country, that has so far been shunned by the vast mass of tourists. My journey turned out to be anything but a pleasure trip, but all the hardships were richly rewarded by what I saw. The first balls I came across were lying around in flat country for no apparent reason. Then I found several groups of balls on the tops of hills. Some always lay in the centre of the hill's longitudinal axis. I waded through the mud of a riverbed and found great groups of balls in strange formations that were unintelligible, although they must have been deliberate. Detail of the ‘flying machine’ shown on the Assyrian cylinder seal.