First off, the likelihood of this
been a natural object seems pretty low.
The natural explanations are all troublesome. An asteroid creates a mess and we do not have
a mess down there. Ancient sink holes
also normally lack nice obvious symmetry and do not rise above the surrounding
mud. Volcanoes do a lot more that form a
nice flat topped plug. And it is
certainly not modern human manufacture because someone would surely recognize it
or know of a report. In short it is
confounding and we are going to have a close look at it to see what it really
is.
One possibility that I want to
throw out there is that it could be an ancient cut stone structure built when
the sea level was three hundred feet lower before the end of the Ice Age. We already have such a stone structure near Japan
If I have the scales right, then
it is simply too big to be an ocean going vessel and appropriate for a stone
platform. It obviously has sharp edges
which occur rarely in nature. It really
looks too ordered to be natural.
We are now going to find out in
the next few days and it will be fun to see if it is anything or more
questions.
The truth is out there about UFO in Baltic Sea ,
Swedish scientists say
Published May 29, 2012
FoxNews.com
Swedish scientists plan to explore a mystery ripped straight from the
“The X-Files.”
Rather than Mulder and Scully, this adventure features Swedish
researchers Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg. They too know the truth is out
there -- and in mere days plan to visit what they call the “Baltic Anomaly.”
Last summer, while on a treasure hunt between Sweden and Finland ,
the pair and their research associates made headlines worldwide with the
discovery of a 200-foot wide unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea . Now a team of oceanographers, engineers and
deep sea divers will return to the site Friday, June 1, for a 6 to 10 day trip.
They want to find out once and for all what it really is.
“We don’t know whether it is a natural phenomenon, or an object,”
Lindberg, captain of the Ocean Explorer, told FoxNews.com. “We saw it on sonar
when we were searching for a wreck from World War I. This circular object just
turned up on the monitor.”
The discovery was a worldwide news event, covered in the popular press,
the scientific press and in the blogosphere. Many speculated that the discovery
was of a long-lost unidentified flying object (UFO), that crashed into the sea
-- evoking Duchovny’s alien-hunting character on the TV show.
Lindberg is clearly aware of the connection: The logo for his “OceanX
Team” is clearly meant to evoke the X-Files logo. But is the truth out there
this time? He aims to find out.
“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.”
At this point, Lindberg said, he and his colleagues “don’t know more
than anyone else what it is” down there for certain.
But he’s willing to speculate as to the possibilities. The crash
debris could be from a meteor, he told FoxNews.com. It could a naturally
occurring gas well discovery -- located interestingly enough in international
waters, he added. Or, he muses, it could be the remains of a Russian warship
from the late 19th century.
“I don’t think it’s an ordinary stone formation, or cargo dropped from
a ship,” Lindberg said. “But it can be a lot of things. If it’s not manmade,
and was made by another form of intelligent life, it would be very lucky. I’ve
never won the lottery before!”
His colleague, Dennis Asberg, agreed. “If this were a UFO, that would
indeed be a strange thing.” He too speculates that it could be a gas well
finding, or the remains of a meteor. “I’m just not sure,” he said. “But we’ll
see soon.”
Others claim that the object, located 300 feet beneath the surface
of the Baltic Sea , may be a natural formation,
or even
an emerging volcano.
Earlier this year, Lindberg told the media he thought this discovery
might be a “new Stonehenge .”
The Ocean Explorer crew includes 13 researchers, including a sonar
expert, and a camera crew from Swedish TV that will document the event.
Lindberg said he is in negotiations with Microsoft to see if the event can be
carried live on the Internet, from the remote location in international waters
via video streaming.
“We’re working with Microsoft on that, but nothing is final yet. Tell
them we want to do a deal,” he joked.
The exploration is funded by private investors and bank notes that
Ocean Explorer has secured, said Lindberg. The initial discovery of the
unidentified sea object was made during a trek to find Swedish commercial ships
sunk by the German Navy during World War I last summer.
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