In a group chat channel with old time friends, recently someone started sharing UFO theories. Youtube videos on the Buga Sphere started circulating, much to my annoyance. Just for amusement, I watched one of the videos.

The "scientists" on the video were running a microscope-camera on the surface of a shiny orb with undecipherable inscriptions, that looked like something scavenged from a movie set salvage store. They were pointing at the "inconfutable proof" that the orb contained advanced alien technology, i.e., fiber optic.

In the camera screen, dots with smaller circles arranged inside them could be seen, as cross sections of a man-made fiber strand. The "scientists" were saying that those surface dots were atmospheric sensors that were collecting and sending data. They also said that they could detect radio frequency right at that moment (which didn't surprise me, because the room was filled with cameras, laptops, and cell phones).

Among the dozens of scientific and historic inventions, the most egregious one was the statement that such fiber optic terminations could be sensors. A fiber optic is like a pipe or wire for light: an open termination of a single wire can only do two things: either send a point of environment light (with no image details) to a device, e.g., a sensor on the other end, or shoot light from a light source on the other end. And that's when it struck me.

I suddenly realized that I have a Buga sphere with me. It doesn't have the fancy inscriptions of the one in the video, but it's doing exactly that: shooting light. I have unlocked the secret of the Buga sphere. It's a disco light gifted to us by a benevolent alien race, who took pity at our disco ball technology, stuck in Saturday Night Fever nostalgia.

With all their good will, the "scientists" at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) studying the Buga sphere, filled with misconceptions, took a completely wrong turn. I can claim I have discovered its secret, and it's now hanging in the Ballroom of the Bureau of Minor Labors of Love where it is being put to use for the benefit of humankind. All the UNAM folks have to do is to stop messing with the fiber optic terminations, and find the switch.

How an alien artifact (the Philadelphia Sphere) made it to BMLL

It all began when I received a package from an unrecognized address.

My security cameras caught the delivery "boy", who had a suspicious look and clearly a greenish skin hue.

Moments later, the creature was gone.

When I opened the package, it contained a shiny silver-like sphere, quite the same diameter as the one dropped off in Buga, Colombia.

Analysis of the Buga / Philadelphia Sphere

I immediately started analyzing the orb, and I discovered advanced technology inside it, similar to the one in the Buga Sphere.

The outer shell is made of an ultra-light aluminum alloy, with precision micro-drilled holes arranged in repeating patterns reminding of an elliptical galaxy; very likely the home place of the civilization that created the artifact.

High-intensity LEDs are used to project light out of the micro-drilled holes. I strongly suspect that a similar device is hidden in the Buga sphere.

The LEDs are arranged on a tree-like structure, with three "branches" extending out of a central axis, which is anchored to the poles of the sphere. Each of the "branches" is placed at a different distance between the axis and the outer shell, and at different angles. There are nine LEDs in total, three per branch, each projecting a different pattern due to the varying pitch and distance. All this structure is constructed out of pure aluminum.

The central axis, and the way it projects light rays, is clearly a reference to the Tree of Life and Axis of the World celebrated in many ancient earthly cultures. This demonstrates a deep understanding of humankind by our benefactors, who are clearly sending us an encrypted message through this gift, to be interpreted only by people with good intentions.

But the most revolutionary aspect of this object, which sets it apart from the Buga sphere and possibly places it in a more advanced technological context, is the rotational device that engages the whole central tree. The rotation is achieved via a high-precision motor that rotates at a slow and steady speed, anchored on the North pole of the shell, and an extremely quiet slip ring inside the South pole, that ensures a continuous supply of electricity to the LEDs while the device is rotating.

The technological advancement in this model is the absence of fiber optic. Since the light sources are rotating, the civilization that built this device had to find a solution to convey the light from the sources to the outside. And they came to a incredibly simple and effective solution: air.

Light travels through air in a straight line, and the combination of rotation and LED colors, positions, and pitch creates a pattern of many galaxies moving into space, colliding, overlapping, and blending with one another. It is possible that this device calculates the events of the Universe. A collaboration with the Harvard / Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is underway. The CFA will provide measurement devices and AI computation tools that will be able to predict the next asteroid collision that will scorch the Earth clean. In the meantime, the Sphere is being used for dance parties at BMLL.