Explorers find bizarre, spaceship-like object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

[The Straight Story]

Explorers find bizarre, spaceship-like object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Annalee Newitz — Several days ago, we reported that a Swedish team of shipwreck hunters discovered a strange, circular object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that looks sort of like the Millennium Falcon. The group was using sonar to plumb the depths of the waters, hoping to find shipwrecks that might contain treasures they could sell. The Ocean Explorer team isn't sure what to make of this strange discovery that some are calling a crashed UFO, but they've released more information about it.

Here you can see Peter Lindberg, from the Swedish Ocean Explorer team that discovered the object, explaining what they found. Earlier, he told reporters:

At 87 meters down, between Sweden and Finland, they saw a large circle, about 60 feet in diameter. You see a lot of wierd stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completly round…a circle.

Apparently there are tracks about 300 meters long leading up to the object, leading Lindberg to speculate that the object has moved. So far nobody has explored the object yet, so hopefully we'll be learning more about this as the story develops.

http://io9.com/5822917/treasure-hunters-find-bizarre-spaceship+like-object-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea

(pic at link)

[Duer 157099]

1. I love stories like these, but seldom see follow-up

Seems like it should be relatively simple to just get down there and see what it is. Surely somebody has the right equipment.

Thanks for posting

[Zywiec]

2. Cool stuff!

[MineralMan]

3. Pretty hard to tell anything from those fuzzy images.

I notice that the main thing the guy in the video is about is getting some investors to pay for further exploration. I think I'd pass, frankly, at this stage. There's just not enough information. I expect we'll never hear about this again.

[TomClash]

10. I see Jesus eating an ice cream cone! nt

[Throckmorton]

35. I saw a Naked PaK-Ma-Ra once.

Weird.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. If this turns out to be real

That will be confirmation.

Will have to scrap time line.. That said who is going down there to raise it.

I HATE that IPAD keyboard at times.

And to those making fun from the spell police

PFFFFFF!!!!!!!

Oh and no boys we are not alone. To think this is the height of hubris. Of course in the US that is quite common... after all we are exceptional... ROLF... by the way have I developed a new set of fans among the IGNORED crowd? I think so...

[MineralMan]

13. If it turns out to be "reak"

the government will cover it up and it will provide endless fodder for the conspiracy theorists, right? Why won't they tell us the truth? :rofl:

[undeterred]

22. What exactly is reak, anyway?

[MineralMan]

29. I haven't the vaguest idea. But a "reak" spaceship on the

ocean floor sounds pretty scary to me. :rofl:

[undeterred]

45. Being near Sweden and Finland, I thought it might be like teak.

A scandinavian wooden spacecraft that never made it to spaqce, but had nice style.

[MineralMan]

46. A wooden spacecraft from IKEA, no doubt. Trouble is,

whoever put it together didn't understand the instructions and didn't install the cam-lock fasteners correctly, so it crashed on its first flight. IKEA then dropped the Vønüz SpaceShip from its catalog and abandoned the SKU.

See - there's a simple explanation for everything.

[undeterred]

51. I would just love to see the interior.

I wonder if they made more than one...

[MineralMan]

53. It's lined with wood-grain paper with a nice semi-gloss finish.

Looks just like birch.

[LanternWaste]

34. And I imagine regardless of what it turns out to be

And I imagine regardless of what it turns out to be, it will most certainly allow the petulant who enjoy laughing at and mocking other people the opportunity to do so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. They do that regularly

and if this tuns out to be a mundane thing, sooner or later we will find evidence we are not alone. I highly doubt it will be a smoking gun. I think Spitzer will do that most likely. And people here on Earth will still refuse to believe this, on religious grounds.

[MineralMan]

37. Not so. Some of us just don't draw conclusions about things

until there's some real information to consider. At this point, it's nothing more than a round, fuzzy image. Until it is further inspected or raised, we don't know what the heck it is. Speculations about it being some sort of space ship or flying saucer are simply ridiculous.

As I said in another post, though, we'll probably never hear about this again. If we do, then I'll see what new information has emerged.

[cbdo2007]

27. If it turns out to be reak then we're all screwek!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Corrected the mispel, just in time I think

Still if this turns to be real, we are talking of REAL evidence that we are not alone... a smoking gun.

And yes, whoever, assuming they crossed the stellar ocean for a second, did that... if they have agressive intentions yes we are screwed.

[damntexdem]

5. Lord Vader, we've found the rebel camp.

And it's not even on an ice planet -- instead, it's on a disastrously warming one.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. It's a rock. n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

9. No, no - It's a trap! n/t

[Broderick]

7. turret

my guess


More interested in the unicorn to the left.... Look closely.

[Scuba]

12. That crossed my mind too, but 60 feet across?

[Broderick]

18. I think that might be about right

[Scuba]

26. OK, thanks.

[Sabriel]

28. I don't see a unicorn, but I do see Lamb Chop

I wondered what happened to her after that show ended.

[dembotoz]

8. bush vidicated--chenney claims weapons of mass distruction found

take our word for it.

we will study it and tell you the results. but it proves advanced weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Poll_Blind]

11. 87 meters is pretty deep but couldn't they get access to a simple thethered camera and....

...drop it like an anchor down there. 300 feet of water is pretty shallow, all-told. For an outfit calling itself the Swedish Ocean Explorer team, you'd imagine this would be something they're familiar with. Don't need an ROV. I realize currents and so forth would push any anchor-weighted camera around but 60 feet is a decent target to play with. I usually chalk shit like this up to "something that got pushed off a ship in WW II".

I mean, I'd love more than anyone if this thing was an alien spacecraft, complete with the militarized biological entities which escaped containment and killed the alien crew- but come one, we never get that lucky.

:evilgrin:

PB

[Baclava]

58. Exactly - 300 ft is nothing - get a camera down there, geeze.

quick - before the Roswell cover-up begins.

[Xithras]

14. I love the fact that they jump right to aliens and spaceships...

...while ignoring the more mundane, but far more probable, terrestrial explanations, such as a structure or tank that washed out to sea at some point and simply sank there. Considering the fact that the Baltic was also a major shipping seaway for the Soviets during the Cold War, it's not all that improbable that something big might have been lost into the sea and never made public.

[The Straight Story]

17. They consulted this guy first actually:

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. A turret for a dreadnought sized vessel, maybe

a tank? That is too big for a tank even a Maus.

[Kaleva]

50. Turrets on dreadnoughts weren't circular and....

I'm unaware of any capital ship that was sunk in that area at any time during the age of the dreadnoughts.

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. Yeah but that is the only thing that size that would fit

that or another capital ship

[FLPanhandle]

56. Can't get lots of money from fools unless you plant a foolish idea

Hell, people fund expeditions to find Noah's Ark without even blurry pictures. There's enough suckers out there who will take this serious, and a many will donate.

[RZM]

15. I saw a crack in the sidewalk the other day that looked just like the former East Germany n/t

[FSogol]

16. C'mon. It is obviously a weather balloon. n/t

[asjr]

19. Could it be an antique Frisbie?

[Baclava]

20. It's just an undersea weather balloon.

Better nuke it anyway - just to be sure.

[Lance_Boyle]

21. It's an enormous, very lazy stingray.

Or possibly they found the Baltic's drain plug.

[Rex]

23. Ruh roh...looks like the found a VUX ship!

Better leave it alone...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Hood ornament on Elvis' ride?

[hifiguy]

25. Is being secret Soviet superweapon

that failed. Upsy-dasium not work out so vell.

[LiberalEsto]

44. Shhh, Boris. nt

[Cannikin]

30. I can tell by the images that it's obviously a Cylon raider

...or...maybe Pac-man?

[neverforget]

38. Logically, it's a Cylon raider.

By your command.

[Taverner]

33. It's Noah's Ark!

I knew that thing had to be a spaceship!

:rofl:

[DearAbby]

39. Great Scott!!!

Did they find the "FLUX CAPACITOR"

[n2doc]

40. Cylon fighter

[LiberalEsto]

41. It's the Arctic Circle

The darned thing keeps shifting around when nobody's looking.

[frogmarch]

47. hahaha!

Good one. :thumbsup:

[Brother Buzz]

42. It's just a Horseshoe Crab of enormous proportions...

and would explain the 300 meters of tracks leading up to it. If one squints, a Millennium Falcon or gun turret can been seen.

[bikebloke]

43. Experimental Soviet Aircraft?...

That crashed once upon a time.

Or a rock formation that coincidentally looks like something off the set of Battlestar Gallactica?

Or a troll's frisbee.

[Baclava]

48. Here's a better pic - it IS the Millennium Falcon!

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!

[Broderick]

52. More like a rock outcrop from that photo with

current anomalies rather than dragging marks from the sediment behind it.

[EC]

49. How about an old Russian experimental ship?

and instead of having been moved, maybe skid marks?

[sfpcjock]

55. I hope we can reverse engineer it

...and stun some Republi-cons :)

[Kaleva]

57. The explorers themselves don't describe the object as being "spaceship-like".

[anamandujano]

59. an oatmeal cookie that will last all weekend

:)