While science is afflicted with fakes, a lot of neat and puzzling artifacts are automatically discounted because they are "inconsistent with our understanding".
Reminds me of the authorities when they find a perp that didn't fit their thinking. "He didn't fit the profile." No, the profile didn't fit him.
Hah! I rather like that.
Ironically, meteors themselves used to be in this category until at least the late 18th Century. The scientific wisdom went, "There are no stones in the sky, therefore no stones can fall from the sky."
For big fun mocking this sort of thinking by throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into the mix, track down the books of Charles Fort.