In the 1960s, scientists reached a groundbreaking conclusion as they successfully created the minerals heideite and brezinaite in the laboratory. These artificially produced materials exhibited exceptional conductivity for electricity. Surprisingly, despite their lab origin, these materials were later discovered in fragments of asteroids, posing a perplexing mystery for scientists trying to understand their natural occurrence beyond the controlled environment of the laboratory.

However, there were those who suggested that the new discovery could indicate the existence of an advanced civilization in deep space, which actively used unique materials for its travels.

And years later, these materials arrived on our planets in the form of lifeless asteroids.

Now, six decades later, a Venezuelan researcher is trying to connect the dots between the minerals scientists made in the laboratory and the same minerals that came to Earth from space.

Maybe, just maybe, these superconducting minerals that came from space are also artificial, hypothesized BP Embaid, a physicist at the Central University of Venezuela, in a study, not yet peer-reviewed, published online March 13.

And if that’s the case, the minerals could be evidence of extraterrestrial technology, “technological signatures,” as scientists like to say.

“It is important to be open-minded and even provocative to consider the following question: Are these meteoritic minerals samples of extraterrestrial technological signatures?” Embaid wrote.

Scientists widely agree that we should look more broadly, with more open minds, for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Embaid believes that brezinaite and heideite are so rare, with their unique formulations and layers, that there is a good chance they will always be made.

It is a good possibility, that is, that all the brezinaites and heideites in the galaxy came from laboratories, whether our laboratories or the laboratories of some alien civilization.

“The genesis of these meteoritic minerals may require [a] sophisticated and controlled process that is not easily found in nature,” Embaid wrote.

If it is the case that brezinaite and heideite are exclusively synthetic, the implication is clear. Any meteorite we find that contains brezinaite or heideite is not a natural space rock.

It’s a piece of alien technology, specifically, “abandoned technology,” according to Embaid. Remains of long-lost spacecraft or probes.