No data yet to support this...just a thought now that the acceptance of the extraterrestrial reality has become more publicly accepted. These metal plates most likely were produced by extraterrestrials. Does this render the LDS religion inert if widely known? (Similar to both Christianity and Islam)
Per wiki..
According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible)[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-1][1][/url] are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-2][2][/url] Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing from 30 to 60 pounds (14 to 27 kg),[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-3][3][/url] gold in color, and composed of thin metallic pages engraved with hieroglyphics on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-4][4][/url]
Smith said that he found the plates on September 22, 1823, on a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, after the angel Moroni directed him to a buried stone box. He said that the angel prevented him from taking the plates but instructed him to return to the same location in a year. He returned to that site every year, but it was not until September 1827 that he recovered the plates on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve them. He returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. He allowed others to heft the box but said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language.
Per wiki..
According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible)[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-1][1][/url] are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-2][2][/url] Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing from 30 to 60 pounds (14 to 27 kg),[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-3][3][/url] gold in color, and composed of thin metallic pages engraved with hieroglyphics on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#cite_note-4][4][/url]
Smith said that he found the plates on September 22, 1823, on a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, after the angel Moroni directed him to a buried stone box. He said that the angel prevented him from taking the plates but instructed him to return to the same location in a year. He returned to that site every year, but it was not until September 1827 that he recovered the plates on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve them. He returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. He allowed others to heft the box but said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language.
"I have been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on this".-Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence-Chris Mellon
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960.
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960.
