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The divers exploring a 'UFO-shaped' object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say their equipment stops working when they approach within
200 metersof the object.
Professional diver Stefan Hogerborn, part of the
Ocean Xteam which is exploring the anomaly, said some of the teams' cameras and satellite phones would refuse to work when directly above the object, and would only work once they had sailed away. He is quoted as saying:
"Anything electric out there, and the satellite phone as well, stopped working when we were above the object. And then when we got away about
200 meters,it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didn't work."
Hefty trajectory: The Swedish diving team noted a
985-footflattened out 'runway' leading up to the object, implying that it skidded along the path before stopping but no true answers to this are clear.
"I was kind of prepared just to find a stone or cliff or outcrop or pile of mud but it was nothing like that, so for me it has been a missing experience I must say."
Member Dennis Asberg said: "I am one hundred percent convinced and confident that we have found something that is very, very, very unique."
"Is it a meteorite or an asteroid? Or a volcano? Or a base from say, a
U-boatfrom the Cold War which has manufactured and placed there? Or if it is a UFO? Well, honestly, it has to be something."
The article published by Earth We Are One in December of 2014 was a repurposed version of a story published by the UK newspaper
Rumors about the Baltic Sea UFO began circulating after
"I confirm that we have found two anomalies. We did find the other anomaly approximately
200 meters(about 219 yards)from the circular find at the same sonar run." Lindberg explained why his team had not released the sonar image of the second object: "We decided not to expose that anomaly so much because there is a lot of disturbance on the sonar image when we passed it, so it's very blurry. We can see it's something but to an untrained eye it might just look like 'pea soup.'"
Neither of these sonar images, however, provided a reliable look at the Baltic Sea anomaly. First, the
If you look carefully, you can see a reflection of the circular formation on the right side of the image. Since side-scan sonar is taken with two instruments that bounce acoustic waves in opposite directions from the boat, a feature on one side shouldn't affect the image on the other side. "This means you've got 'cross-talk,' in which one channel is electrically contaminating the other," Singh says. In other words, the sonar instruments aren't wired properly. Strike one, he says.
Strike two: The black horizontal lines going through the image show that sonar signals are dropping out (that is, the instruments aren't detecting them), further calling the measurements into question, Singh says. Finally, he says, the edges of the image, just beyond the circular formation, are gray, meaning the sonar couldn't tell what was there. That shows the sonar isn't calibrated well enough to trust, Singh says. "That's strike three."
With only a single blurry image and little information, many people speculated the object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea could be a UFO, a portal into another world, or an underwater Stonehenge. These theories received more attention when artist Hauke Vagt created a 3D interpretation of the mysterious object:
Scientists, however, have less fantastical theories about what lies at the bottom of the Baltic. Charles Paull, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, said the anomaly is probably just a rock outcropping or the result of gas venting from the seafloor. Other experts argue it is merely a glacial depost. Even Peter Lindberg, the man behind the discovery, expressed skepticism about the object's supposed otherworldly origins: "It's not obviously an alien spacecraft. It's not made of metal."
Team Ocean X's discovery created a stir due to the fact that they could not identify the object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, not because any evidence supported the idea it was a UFO.
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