Deep-Sea Explorers Still Baffled by Unidentified Object on Sea Floor — Can You Name It?
- Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:14am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Professional diver Peter Lindberg has pulled up a lot of things off the sea floor in his career. For example, the Swede once recovered a 100-year-old champagne collection from a shipwreck. But even with all his experience, he’s never seen anything like this. He’s baffled. What is “this?” Think of it as a U.F.O — an unidentified floating object of sorts (it’s really a sunken one).
“I have been doing this for nearly 20 years so I have a seen a few objects on the bottom, but nothing like this,” Lindberg told CNN.
While doing a routine dive at a “secret location” (that’s what CNN calls it) between Sweden and Finland, the deep-sea salvage company Ocean Explorer noticed something incredible located more than 80 meters down.
“We had been out for nine days and we were quite tired and we were on our way home, but we made a final run with a sonar fish and suddenly this thing turned up,” he added. He even used the term “U.F.O” to help describe it.
Here’s how CNN describes it:
Using side-scan sonar, the team found a 60-meter diameter cylinder-shaped object, with a rigid tail 400 meters long.
The imaging technique involves pulling a sonar “towfish” — that essentially looks sideways underwater – behind a boat, where it creates sound echoes to map the sea floor below.
On another pass over the object, the sonar showed a second disc-like shape 200 meters away.
Lindberg’s team believe they are too big to have fallen off a ship or be part of a wreck, but it‘s anyone’s guess what could be down there.
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The Head of Archaeology at Sweden’s Maritime Museums, Andreas Olsson, admits he’s intrigued by the picture, but remains sceptical about what it could be.
The reliability of one-side scan sonar images is one of his main concerns, making it difficult to determine if the object is a natural geological formation or something different altogether.
So what theories are circulating?
“We’ve heard lots of different kinds of explanations, from George Lucas’s spaceship — the Millennium Falcon — to ‘it’s some kind of plug to the inner world,’ like it should be hell down there or something,” Lindberg said. Others have speculated it’s some sort of early Russian explorer vessel.
“But we won’t know until we have been down there.”
The discovery first made news this past summer but is resurfacing now because the team still hasn’t figured out what it is.
For now, Lindberg and his crew are leaving the site alone until they can return in spring when the waters are calmer. They’ll try to figure out what it is then. But even if they don’t, the site could still prove valuable.
“The object itself is maybe not valuable in the sense of money it can be very interesting whatever it is, historical or a natural anomaly,” said Lindberg.
And you can be sure people will flock to see it.
Do you have any theories?
This story has been updated for clarity.
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Comments (376)
grannyrecipe
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:20amWhat would be funny is if it does turn out to be an alien spacecraft. The aliens would be so embarrassed that they finally got caught…sitting there all red-faced.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:31amJudging by the shape and the fact that there are two…I‘m thinking it’s some lunch lady’s bra. Those things can be HUGE!
Report Post »ron2win
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:38amIt’s the oceans drain plug,Good God man , Don’t pull on it !
Report Post »mrpenguine
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:46amclearly the Millennium Falcon
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:02amRon2Win beat me to it… I vote for the ocean drain plug.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:07amIts feasible, the US Military has a 600ft wide triangular spacecraft called a TR3B that runs on a Mercury Vapor Magnetic Monopole Generator (Toroidally-Confined Mercury Vortex that generates an isolated North Pole).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpqpBVOa1U
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:43amIt’s the bottle cap off of a giant brewski.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:51amTo Ron2Win: good one.
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:54amwhat ever it is ..it will be a very expensive recovery …but like others here..would love to know what it is…
Report Post »Darkskies
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:12amSee my post below…“Darkskies”
Report Post »markchristopher
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:25amIt very well could be an extra-terrestrial base, hidden below the surface. Where spacecraft come and go. When they go back in the Spring, it could be gone….
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:32amMercury vapor stuff wins my vote.. I like all that tech talk….Thanks V man
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:46amWhen they bring it up then we can talk!
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:28amIt appears to look exactly like whatever you want it to be.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:11pmMARKCHRISTOPHER
lol Really? It very well could be an Alien spacecraft port?
I’m with the guy who said Millenium Falcon
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:45pmIts Davey Jones Locker Room.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:00pm…it’s the American dream
Report Post »floridacockleburr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:09pmIt’s obviously a decepticon.
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:18pmIts Warren Buffets off-shore account, nothing to see here.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:30pmThese are rock formations from out welling’s of lava.
Report Post »darkmorrow
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:35pmEspecially by a Swede. Dope smokin’, hippie Socialist. Issue should be whether it has 90 degree angles. Earth momma Gaia doesn’t naturally make 90 degree angles. If it’s a USO port, I wonder if there’s a Starbucks with wi-fi. Or a Sbarro’s, mmmmmmm, I love Sbarro’s.
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:51pmIt is a Stargate!
Report Post »American Cherokee
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:54pmVery good and true. Although wouldn’t space aliens embarassed be green faced. Or some other space color we don’t know yet.
Report Post »little big man
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:25pmIt‘s Obama’s mother ship waiting to take him home after he loses the Nov election.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:01pm.
Report Post »Obama’s college transcripts?
If it is, you’ll never see this story again.
MYHEROISRON
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:06pmIt’s the Aluminum Falcon, sister ship to the Millinium Falcon … I want one!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:46pmAnyone remember the movie “The Abyss”? Maybe it will come up on its own?
Report Post »James Wieck
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:52pm@ MRPENGUINE – I agree. It is clearly the Millenium Falcon
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:57pm“clearly the Millennium Falcon”
I agree .. my son was a little guy when Star Wars came out and I would recognize that anywhere .. even the bottom of the ocean.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:43pmIt’s a monument to Eeyore.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:57pmwhy don’t they go down and find out with an Alvin sub…
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:08pmIt is the falcon! “Chewie take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive…”
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:11pmNo, I can‘t ’name’ it. But, let me try this, just for fun.
It was in the later 1900s that (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast24may_1/) an object on Mars was discovered using similar side scan technology that revealed a FACE on the surface of Mars!
In subsequent years we have learned (absolutely nothing) about the site in question and now know even less than before. But, we do know, for sure, that what we did see originally, was not what we thought we saw after wards. And for the record isn’t what was reported later by those informed as to what they could say in public about what they thought they saw.
And in summary, I‘d like to add that there is nothing that I’d add to that summary.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:40pmIt also looks like the spacecraft from the first “Aliens” movie…..
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:52pmIt’s a USO! Unid Sunken Object! I’ll wait till I die to find the answers to Bigfoot, Nessie, aliens (space aliens)! If it’s a UFO then what?
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 6:13pmMan… you let a wooki take your cargo ship out for one night and he crashes it then leaves the scene of the accident. I hope Hans insurance covers water damage…Like a good neighbor…lol
Report Post »sweetgold
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:28pmIt would be more interesting if they returned and nothing was there!!
Report Post »street883
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:59pmI’m really surprised nobody has guessed the right object yet. It‘s Osama’s party house that holds him and 72 virgins inside.
Report Post »StoneSatellite
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:41pmDamn, Mr. Penguin stole my thunder…..
Report Post »mwilson85
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:51pmor even funnier… a Millenium Falcon… LOL
Report Post »NukeHaze
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:14amCome on people… it’s a Cylon Raider when Battlestar Galactica 1980 got to Earth.
OR it is a Glen Larson prop sank to the bottom of the ocean. Yes, He is Mormon, too. Let the conspiracy continue.
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:47amNo guys it’s the Millenium Falcon! XD
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:37amObviously, it’s the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile …
Report Post »joelack55
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:43amnot red faced……GREEN faced
Report Post »MarkL
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 5:06amNukeHaze is right, it has to be a Cylon Raider from the original Battlestar Galactica.
You see, Star Wars happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. It can’t be the Milenium Falcon, because that ship never made it to Earth.
But the Cylons did make it here in 1980. So it must be a Cylon Raider!!!
Unless it’s a Romulan Warbird. Same shape too… and all they’d need to do is sling shot around the sun and…
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:16amCrashed UFO for sure. And that 8-foot hairy bipedal creature next to it is a sasquatch. For sure.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:19pmTwas not my long lost Lenore, just a rock and nothing more.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:13pm@bhohater
Report Post »That was the 1st love poem I ever memorized….
UrsaMajor
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:10amObviously it’s a deep sea domed FEMA camp built by the Wattaburgers and the Great Owl.
Report Post »bets
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:16amhow long ago would that have been dry ground? Or could it be a meteor that did not totally blast apart?
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:51amIt’s the Baltic Dry Index–or it may be wet.
Report Post »Longslide
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:58pmHad it been a meteor that large making impact the damage would have been catastrophic and the impact crater would be enormous, water or no water.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:48amOh no, it’s a strange shape on the ocean floor so the “logical” explanation is it’s a space ship. There is no other possible explanation. There you have it.
Report Post »Mr Sanders
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:09amComposition: Unknown. Interesting? We can see what type of atmosphere a planet has from lightyears away but this object – 80 meters down… truly facsinating?
195 ft Dia – interesting
Circular craft – Avro Car? not. Too small.
Definately not a weather baloon.
Too big for the German’s IDF experiments during WWII.
If it was a treasure ship from the chinese fleet of 1421, it would have collapsed into a tear-drop shape, similar to the shape near the mountains of Ararat. Besides wood may have descentigrated by now?
Could it be a volcanic remanent?
Could it be a large part of an oil platform, maybe its base?
Round steel-hulled ship would not be efficient – it can’t be that.
Could it be a “dumping” container of questionable materials that was hoped to be “not found”?
I don’t know….. just some thoughts. I’ll keep think on it. Very curious.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:45pm@ Mr Sanders:
Report Post »“Besides wood may have descentigrated by now?” Wood lasts a long time in the Baltic. No toredo worms to eat and the cold helps to further preserve it.
babylonvi
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:41pmYou may be ob to something, I’d bring a geiger counter on a trip down there.
Report Post »CURTWALL
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:04amLooks like a walled city prior to the great flood.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:16amIt‘s not a city if it’s only 195 feet wide.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:11amIt’s a city for very, very small people maybe? :)
Report Post »Darkskies
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:01amOk all I have to say is watch this NASA footage, full screen, then tell if you don’t think there’s any similarity between the underwater object and this space shuttle footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I
Report Post »Nunyunuwi
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:44amGood footage, there are similarities. Just intriguing and plenty of room for speculations of all types.
Report Post »There is something on the sea floor and in time they should find out what it is.
There is somethings moving around in this footage of NASA’s – nothing new, happens a lot. People just don’t see / know about it.
rock no
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:58amToo big for an AWACs disk, unless experimental – wait 400 meters – do they have the designation off, should be inches or feet, but not meters. 400 meters is roughly 1200 feet
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:50amI read that too and went.. HUH??? 60 m diameter cylinder with a 400 m rigid tail… like the tail of a kite??
So this cylinger had the wing span of a 747 jumbo plus a little extra…and the length of an aircraft carrier….and they found a similar length cylinder 200 m away as well ….
and they have known about these since last summer and can’t figure out what they are… these are either the DUMBEST oceanographers in the world or so full of BS they can’t see daylight….
it is probably geological…volcanic vents i bet…given the region…that is not out of the question…. but it is definitely not man-made….this is just a nice way for them to drum up money for a Nat-Geo special…..
Report Post »ThisisnotMMA
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:58amPacmans origin found
Report Post »VApatriot2
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:57amShe wears undies? No, wait…we, the insignificant, have underwear. She, and the elite have lingerie. Boy, now I’m really pissed!!!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:16amI think you are responding to the wrong article.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:35amNah…he‘s probably on the right article but thinking they bury Michelle’s underwear at sea after she wears them.
Report Post »Tomr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:23amWith an ass the size of her’s, it could be an old pair of Michelle’s panties.
Report Post »Bonnie
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:01pmYour post cracked me up along with the responses to you. The more I think about it, the funnier it gets. I had and still have not read the “expensive undies” article but when your post popped up in this unrelated article, I think you could be the start of something big, maybe something called “mixed comments”. maybe even have prizes involved. Anyway, you made my day.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:54amIt‘s Pandora’s Box.
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:13amFace of Jesus? (kidding)
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:42pmIt‘s the doomsday device the Ruskies built back in the 1950’s you idiots, haven’t you ever watched the movie “Dr. Strangelove?” Back off before you kill us all.
Report Post »loneplunger
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:53amAlmost looks like ruins
Report Post »DD313
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:52amIs this news? Wasn’t it discovered years ago, or is there second one in the Baltic/ Gulf of Bothnia?
Report Post »CURTWALL
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:08amI believe you are right.
Report Post »CaptMickeyd
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:35amYeah, I could swear that this was a repeat of an article that I read last year.
Report Post »Brents Torts
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:07amDid you guys read the story? It clearly states that the story was first reported last summer. Nothing to see here, move along move along.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:51amIt’s a basalt column from an old volcano. It was buried under the sea when the dinosaurs consumed too much fossil fuel. The ‘fossils’, back then, being the remains of an old human species.
Now back to work kiddies.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:34am“It’s a basalt column from an old volcano”
That is what I thought as well
Report Post »cirktbrakr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:50amLooks like a part of the tail of a WW2 Bomber.
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/ww2-aircraft.asp
Though, I don’t know enough to know which one.
Report Post »cirktbrakr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:51amthough the reported size is way to big for a WW@ bomber tail
Report Post »nowwhattimeisit
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:49amThats one big horsescrab!!! 196+Feet!!!
Look that the picture it even has the rib like back mid bottom and they said it had a tail…
It will be neat to know when they come back its not there / can’t relocate…
http://horseshoecrab.org/anat/anat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Limulus_polyphemus.jpg
Report Post »rock no
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:44amWhat is the diameter of a radar that sits on top of an airplaane? 180 feet? Could have been an air accident that we were not told about. Look up Awac
Report Post »Could be space junk, man made.
cripplecreek
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:38amUn-floating object.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:36am.
Report Post »It could be a Whale’s sex toy………
leahasevedo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:49amlol! yes in deed:)
Report Post »imfrzn
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:32amIt looks as if you‘ve stumbled onto Michelle Obama’s missing toilet seat! Have you seen the back side on that woman! Yikes!
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:31amUFO shot down or crashed.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:52amHow mundane.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:30amMillennium Falcon my first guess but it looks like they already facored that one in…..Incredible how Star Wars has been getting huge amounts of PR these past couple weeks……Super Bowl commercials are going to be flooded with them and Phantom Menace in 3D coming soon to a theatre near you???
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:22amIt’s more for the launch of Star Wars the Old Republic online game released Dec. 20th…As for this thing they found…I bet it’s a failed weapon developed by the now executed Russian scientists. Look at that Russian aircraft that was pictured recently….How many of those took a digger before one would fly 16 ft off the ocean. That would be my guess.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:29amWell…it‘s too big to be the marbles I’ve lost over the years.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:29amdoes the signature indicate composition? Metal? Rock? The end circle looks like ancient Chinese coins.
Report Post »jeffro314
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:27amFarahkan’s Mother ship…
Report Post »rbrennec
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:26amIt’s the missing money from MF Global.
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