Swedish sea treasure hunters have found something extraordinary: an 18m disc sunk in the bottom of the ocean, with what appears to be 300m long impact tracks leading to it. The team leader never found anything like it.
You see a lot of weird stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round… a circle.
Those are the words of Peter Lindberg, commander of the Ocean Explorer. He and his team found the strange disc on June 19, 2011, at 87m below the surface of the Botnia Gulf, which is located somewhere between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic.
The Ocean Explorer is not a team of crazy UFO hunters, but a company that finds sunken ships and retrieve their contents for profit. In 1997 they found the ship Jönköping , which was loaded by 2500 bottles of an amazing champagne: Heidsieck&Co Monopole 1907 “Gout Americain” dedicated to the Russian Imperial Fleet. They sold those bottles for $US13,000 a pop.
So what could this be?
Linberg is not claiming this is a UFO but the appearance of the sonar image is leading some people to believe it’s a crashed object either made by humans or — dun dun DUN — aliens. I look at the images and all I can think about is “someone get Chewie and Han’s bodies out of there.”
While the shape may remind you of the Millennium Falcon, a Cylon Raider or a bloody Nazi spaceship from the dark side of the moon, and the tracks suggest the object destroyed part of seabed on its way to its final position, this could be anything, including a geological formation, or, as Lindberg says, some archeological find, some “new Stonehenge”.
How a new Stonehenge could be found at 87m below the surface, I don’t know. And it certainly can’t be a manmade object because I’d would assume that any aircraft woud have been retrieved by now by the US or Russian navies.
In any case, I’m sure we will find out. Lindberg doesn’t want to spend any money on it “since it might be nothing” but I’m sure James Cameron is on his way armed with his Titanic underwater robots and he will find out.
Assuming the Men In Black don’t get there first, of course. [Ocean Explorer via News.com , MSNBC, ABC (In Spanish) — Gracias Estudiante!]
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The Joker
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7:49 AMNah, it’s not an alien space craft, it’s just the access hatch to an alien spacecraft which remains hidden under the seabed…..Independence Day was a documentary wasn’t it.
randy
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:14 AMits clearly an asterioid, or something of that matter.
Sunny
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 6:18 AMDude you serious? Really an asteriod? I’m pretty sure an asteriod would be more like a sphere then a disc which is what they call it, and what it looks like in the picture, also an asteroid would not skip across the sea bed, it would instead plow into the sea bed and make a crater (btw no crater in the video just a ‘skid mark’) and the sea bed would be more broken up. So no definitly not an asteroid.
Daryn
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 10:58 AMDefinitely not an asteroid or it would be a sphere. You aren’t really thinking carefully about this. Firstly, most asteroids are not spherical but, let’s assume they are. Think about what the top of a spherical object looks like from above when it is mostly buried…that’s right: a circle. The “skid mark” is not a skid mark; it is a shape left in the ocean floor due to the currents that are blocked by this object protruding from the ocean floor. Actually, it’s just a geological feature but it’s fun to imagine.
Hi
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:15 AMOh so that’s where my CD went
Matt L
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:10 PMUmm… Nah, videodisc maybe?
EckyThump
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:23 AMI love it when people start speculating about this kind of thing, look what happened to the face on Mars!! This thing is probably a rain water tank that fell of a transport ship,.. or something to that effect!! #]
RMW
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:25 AMits a 60 foot incomplete circle odds are it is volcanic.
kibbs
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:58 AMthere´s no volcanic activity in scandinavia
James Ditto
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:24 AMDid you seriously just say that? Cause if you did, you need to research volcanic activity more.
monkeyboy
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 6:06 PMnorwegians, swedes, danes, etc refer to scandinavia as sweden/norway only..Iceland, faroes, greenland and denmark are not part of scandinavia..perhaps that was his viewpoint.
Danish dude
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:13 PMThats not true. Scandinavia refers to Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden only. But in some other countries they think its Norway/Sweden or Denmark, Norway Finland, Iceland, Sweden etc.
Blob
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 4:44 AMlast time i checked volcanoes dont fall from the sky and leave impact craters just sayin :p
Jake
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:34 AMIt looks like the Millennium falcon, and yes, definitely an alien spacecraft
ivan dokov
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:45 AMit is the millennium falcon!!!
cayal
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:37 AMlol that was my first thought.
Andrew
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:21 PMMy thought also! Where’s Han?
Ricardo G.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 4:36 AMIt looks more like the Ebon Hawk . . . maybe this is where the exile ended up when he went to look for Darth Revan.
Mike
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:45 AMHoly shit! It totally does look like the Ebon Hawk :O
bob
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:51 AMawesome dig it up NOAW!
Ohjerry
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:15 AMI cant figure out WHERE they said it is. What ocean?
Mike
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:37 AMThe Baltic sea.
Effluvium Boy
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:01 AM“87m below the surface of the Botnia Gulf, which is located somewhere between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic.”
Dr. Carter
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:20 AMThis is not a UFO. It’s a USO- an unidentified sunken object; it is not flying.
Kids these days…
olearymo
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:21 AMTechnically the Millennium Falcon was constructed by, and owned by, Humans.
Effluvium Boy
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM“In a galaxy far, far away” and thus, to us on Earth, considered alien.
Gid
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:22 PMYou mean Corelians. Im not sure the term human applies in that respect.
olearymo
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 8:46 AMCorellians were the inhabitants of the Corellian sector. While the term technically referred to both native inhabitants and naturalized citizens, in practice it was generally used to refer to the Human natives of the Corellian system, or more specifically the planet Corellia.
– http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Corellian
If something created by Humans but not on Earth is alien, the lunar buggies on the moon are technically alien (put together on the moon), as is astronaut poop.
Shane Kerr
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:35 AMNahhh, It’s the missing Baltic Stargate!
jason
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:39 AM87 meters! 87 fricken meters.. why are we having this conversation, why dont we know already what it is!? its not like it is 1000m below
EckyThump
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:54 AMEasy tiger, eeasy,… Heh heh #]
Jared
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:51 AM87 meters and they didnt go down?! YOU COULD FRIGGIN SCUBA DIVE THAT!!
RJ
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:43 PMAt 287 feet, that’s a pretty big dive. These guys might not have had the equipment or training to dive to such depths. OR the ocean might have just been real nasty. Strong undercurrents, low visibility, etc.
Scott
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:13 AMNo way it’s an Alien spacecraft, they only ever land in America.
Dillon
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 2:01 AMLOL so true
Scott
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:25 AMAs far as “How a new Stonehenge could be found at 87m below the surface, I don’t know”: between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago the ocean level was up to 140m lower than it is currently.
Shane
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:40 AMIt’s a moving rock…
It’s a frizby, hate to see the dog that goes with it…
Why was it missed when the US did there big scan of the ocean beds!??!
Ohh…consipracry…
Niall
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:58 AMC’mon guys, it’s obviously Cthulu’s jacuzzi.
jeff
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:06 AMciav awac radar dish lost in the 1980s due to russiun tacan spoofing.
Nads
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:42 PMIt’s the Earths ocean sink plug! Do not remove it or we are all doomed!
Dave
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:17 PMit’s probably a good think that it’s the plug hole… especially with the rising sea levels we can just let out a few bagilliongiga litres.
Chris
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1:15 PMI think it’s megatron or some other decepticon they dropped. Maybe not as bad a Megatron cause it’s only 250ft down. Megatron was dropped in the Lorencian Abyss wasn’t he? Either way, I think they should go see what it is!
Osiris Fox
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1:26 PMThey’re looking for more funding.
Sky Bolt
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1:51 PMGod skipped a giant rock across the ocean. Obviously.
gort
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1:53 PMa venusian weather balloon?
Matt L
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:14 PMLet’s just speculate for 30 or so years, let the world adjust their mindset to whatever trend of speculation is current at the time, then dig it up to find out it’s nothing. By then the worlds mind set has practiacally been raped by random ideas of what it must be. Dig it up gizmodo, you’re loaded!!!