Divers claim 'Baltic UFO' shuts down all electronics within 200m
Investigating the mystery object
The Swedish Ocean X treasure-hunting team first discovered a mystery object reminiscent of the Star Wars spaceship Millennium Falcon last year.
But they didn’t have the resources to investigate. Now, they have returned with top-of-the-range 3D seabed scanners and a submersible – all funded by a secret sponsor.
The team studies their map before the next dive (screenshot from NDTV)
“Anything electric out there – and the satellite phone as well – stopped working when we were above the object,” Stefan Hogerborn, the expedition’s lead diver, told Swedish channel NDTV.
“And then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didn’t work.”
The discovery itself is described as a round object resembling a “huge mushroom.” On top of it is an “egg-shaped” portal. The team said that a 300-meter trail that “can be described as a runway” stretches out from the site of the “spaceship.”
The team has not been shy to speculate about what they have seen.
“It's a meteorite or an asteroid or a volcano or a base from, say, a U-boat from the Cold War which has manufactured and placed there – or it is a UFO. Well honestly, it has to be something," says Dennis Asberg, one of the Ocean X team.
The electric interference seems to confirm that the object is by no means ordinary.
A "huge mushroom"
Skepticism grows louder
The original sonar (image from oceanexplorer.se)
Critics have accused Ocean X, who are professional wreck-hunters, not oceanographers, of poor science and incessant attempts to court publicity in order to secure funding.
Hanumant Singh, a researcher with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, told US magazine Popular Mechanics that the original “Millennium Falcon” image that sparked the media firestorm was taken using a cheap and incorrectly-calibrated sonar.
Charles Paull, a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, told the same magazine that bizarre but relatively common formations can be created by gas and fluid leaks from underneath the seabed.
As to the signal interference, it does not appear to have been a consistent phenomenon, since there appears to be extensive footage taken within several feet of the mystery object. And even if it did occur, there are plenty of underwater materials that interact with sensitive electronics.
Ocean X denies charges of publicity-seeking.
“First we thought this was only stone, but this is something else. And since no volcanic activity has ever been reported in the Baltic Sea the find becomes even stranger,” claims Peter Lindberg, the Ocean X team founder.
Ocean X is currently planning commercial trips for tourists to see the “underwater UFO” in its new submersible.
A very strange anomaly was found during a sonar survey of the sea floor.
Swedish researchers have found a giant circle on the bottom of the Baltic Sea when searching for shipwrecks with bottles of champagne.
On the early morning of June 19 three of the nine crew members of the exploration team saw something strange appear on their screen.
Between Sweden and Finland, the team found at 90 meters depth a large shape with a diameter of 60 ft. Peter Lindberg, the initiator of the expeditions: “In this field you are confronted with many strange things, but in all those 18 years that I do I’ve never seen anything like it and it is completely round in shape.”
Lindberg added that the scars on the earth surrounding it could show where the supposed craft landed and skidded along.
Anyhow, Lindberg says his team do not have the money or resources to examine the shape further.
Baltic Sea UFO
The so-called "Baltic Sea UFO" has been relocated by divers on the research vessel Ocean Explorer and reports confirm there is a massive object on the seabed in the exact location found on sonar last year.
The research vessel, aka the OceanX, has returned to the spot off the Swedish coast where a gigantic, sunken object was spotted on video last November.
Images
posted to the web stirred a gigantic debate about its origins, going so
far as to speculate it bore an uncanny resemblance to the "Millennium
Falcon" spaceship at the center of the Star Wars saga.
Others
calmly pointed out that the massive, circular object was either a
natural formation or the remains of Russian warships sunk to the bottom
decades, maybe even a century ago.
“We’ll be searching the area in a number of ways,” Lindberg explained.
“We’ll use sonar to make 3D images of the bottom, the clay bottom, of
that part of the sea. We’ll send down deep-sea divers too. And a camera
robot. We’ll also take samples from the sea bed and measure them for
toxicities and radiation.”
The
vessel is also carrying a team of deep sea divers ready to go down for
the hands-on approach to decide if this mysterious object is indeed a Baltic Sea UFO.
A breaking news dispatch from the ship on Thursday confirms that the object is real and located in the same position.
It
goes on to announce that "The divers are now down and investigating the
circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is
definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed - a Mystery Beneath.
More information and pictures will be released next week."
The
tantalizing dispatch has caused consternation in the many followers of
the mission, and comments on the news site already hint at conspiracy
and coverup.
It remains to be seen
exactly what this immense object really is, but further details which
may solve the mystery are only a week away.
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