A researcher of the has determined that a Tibetan statue brought to Germany by a Nazi expedition has some extraterrestrial origins. The statue of a Buddhist god wearing a swastika was taken in 1938 by a team of Nazis and remained in private hands until 2007. After some analysis, Elmar Buchner discovered that the statue was actually carved from a meteorite. “It is rich in nickel, it is rich in cobalt,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t is the rarest type of meteorite you can find.” It is the only known human figure carved from a meteorite.
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