A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden.
"This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters.
Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about the size of a jumbo jet. And it's not alone. Nearby on the sea floor is another, smaller object with a similar shape. Even more fascinating, both objects have "drag marks" behind them on the sea floor, stretching back more than 400 feet.
"Could this be the Star Wars Millenium Falcon, a plug to an inner world or a marine version of Stonehenge?" asks CNN's Brooke Bowman:
Well, it could just be another shipwreck. Or, mud.
But Lindberg says the ship theory doesn't really hold up because of the unusually large size of the objects. "Of course it would be something from another ship but it's quite big," he told CNN. Lindberg notes that some observers have speculated that the objects may be Russian warships built around the end of the 1800's. However, Lindberg points out that not only were those ships much smaller, they were not patrolling the Baltic during that era.
The Baltic Sea is a literal treasure trove for salvage teams and a "shipwreck laboratory" for researchers. The sea's low salinity levels help preserve objects that sink to the bottom. "Right now, we know about 20,000 objects, mostly shipwrecks, in the Baltic Sea. But I think there may be more than 100,000," said sonar expert Ardreas Olsson, "I'm not sure what you will see when you go down. But I'm excited. It's going to be interesting to see what it is."
The Ocean Explorer team first made their find back in August and had no plans to return to the scene. For now, Lindberg is waiting for calmer waters in the Baltic, possibly in May, before taking his salvage team to the bottom for a closer look at the mysterious objects. They originally had no plans to return to the spot, but the spike in interest from the public has led them to begin planning a return trip.
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I remember seeing it.
Just google this! Can people PLEASE google this so you can go crazy like me. All these sites, including sott.net, cnn.com, huffingtonpost.com etc etc, are ALL reporting this as if it something new, and subsuquently just disming it, acting like so called "experts" are saying it is faulty instruments and it is nothing. At the time of me posting this
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is the first link that comes up when you type in "swedish UFO baltic" and it is an article from last August 1st. They getting sick of people being curious? Getting sick of people wanting the truth? Ok cool just go on a shit ton of popular sites, even the ones that claim to be alternative, and dismiss this as being nothing. Even though any person with interest and curiosity can clearly put this together and realzie that those in control do not want this to be taken seriously and in turn researched or exposed by anyone with the so called "credentials" that lets them be seen by millions of people on any popular network. The amount of denial that I am seeing on the part of EVERY SINGLE SITE THAT I HAVE SEEN THAT HAS POSTED ABOUT THIS, is STAGGERING, SERIOUSLY. THEY ARE JUST ACTING LIKE THIS JUST HAPPENED. WHY.