Mysterious Baltic Sea Object analyzed so far – Sept 23, 2012

Jonesing for the latest Baltic Anomaly update?  Me too!  The Truth Behind The Scenes:

Swedish seafaring treasure hunters Ocean X Team made headlines last year with the accidental discovery of a mysterious circular object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.


Now, thanks to more exploration and a laboratory analysis of stones on and around the object, they’re a step closer to lifting the veil on the mystery.

The stones that lay on the object turned out to be red granite which came with the ice age. Dennis Åsberg’s theory is when the ice melted, the stones landed on the object.That would mean it should have been there more than 140 000 years.

Recent examination of the object has revealed a hole about two meters in diameter and that the object is not anchored to the ground.

Dennis Åsberg: ”We have discovered that the object is separated from the ocean floor it’s laying on a ridge, we’ve investigated the object with the ROV robot and looked at the object from below. One can see that the bottom and the object is separated. ”

The material of the object is too hard, so it has not been possible to remove anything from it yet, says Dennis.

But they have managed to bring up some stones that have been on and around the anomaly for analysis.

The team have also found many black magma-like stones at the site.

The theory is that the object must have been at a very high temperature at some point. This caused stones in its vicinity to become charred.

Dennis Åsberg: ”As I see it, when we’ve been and looked at it, it looks really strange to me, it looks like something is designed, in that we have these angles, 90 degree angles, the aisles of the object.”

Dennis hopes that their next expedition will be in spring when the frigid Nordic weather has improved.

Next Spring?  I can't wait that long!  Here's the video:

Baltic Anomaly: New Expedition After Astonishing Images

Baltic X is back, baby!  After a botched attempt in July(Short answer:  Bad weather/Equipment malfunctions), the Ocean X team is currently on-site (As of Sept. 7 or 8), and hopes to have a much more comprehensive expedition this time around.  Truthfall.  Excerpts(With Sonar images and "artist interpretation" goodness at the link):

Veteran Swedish treasure hunters, the Ocean Explorer Team will at last embark on a long anticipated return trip to the massive and mysterious object lying some 85 metres under the Baltic Sea – known simply as the “Baltic Anomaly”.

New Multi-Beam Sonar Images Released Contradict Mainstream “Explanations”

Voyage Begins Next Saturday 8th September and Will Last 8-9 days
Team Will Look At Other Shipwrecks Also To Finance This Project
Excitement As Team Will Investigate Second Anomaly For The First Time
New Expedition Should Provide More Answers To Object’s Origin
New Images Show 2-3 Metre Long Square With Perfectly Round Hole Inside
Depressions With Perfectly Straight Edges Many Metres Long

The team, led by OceanX founders Dennis Aasberg and Peter Lindberg will leave Norrtälje harbour, Sweden on the 8th September after a second trip in July ended in disappointment due to multiple equipment failures. Despite this previous setback, the team are determined to get answers and when you see the latest sonar images you will understand why.
Out of place

This unnatural looking mushroom shaped structure protrudes vertically upwards out of the normally featureless seabed by an incredible 12 metres (40 feet) with the dome on top spanning an impressive 60 metres (180 feet) – equivalent to the wingspan of a commercial airliner. This is no small find!

Not only is the massive scale of the object utterly impressive, but the other thing that hits you between the eyes is also how ridiculously out of place it seems. The Baltic Sea is what’s known as a “dead-zone” with massive expanses of flat and featureless seabed. Yet in the middle of it all we find a 12 metre high champagne cork shaped object literally – “sticking up like a sore thumb”. Then there is the tantalizing prospect of the as yet uninvestigated second and third anomalies lying close by and begging closer inspection.

When news first broke of the finding back in June 2011, a sensationalist world media jumped on the images comparing the sidescan sonar images to Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon. In truth, there was a very real visual similarity when the top-down views were compared but not much in the way of substance beyond that. The OceanX team, like the rest of us, were eager to solve the mystery and so here we are on the verge of another return trip and another voyage into the unknown, or perhaps a voyage into our own distant human origins.   I still believe in you , Baltic Anomaly.  Nessie, Bigfoot, and I will be awaiting your findings with bated breath!  And by "findings," I mean PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES!

Baltic Sea UFO May Be Secret Nazi Weapon

Even if this isn't a UFO, this might just be the next best(?) answer.  The Truth Behind The Scenes:


Divers exploring a ‘UFO-shaped’ object in the Baltic sea say that the strange, curved object may possibly be a secret Nazi device lost beneath the waves since the end of the Second Planet War.



Sonar scans have shown that the device, raised 10ft above the seabed and measuring 200ft by 25ft, could be the base of an anti-submarine weapon.


The weapon was built with wire mesh which could have baffled submarine radar, leading enemy craft to crash – a lot in the exact same way as turning out a lighthouse could be utilized as a weapon against shipping.


But now former Swedish naval officer and WWII expert Anders Autellus has revealed that the structure – measuring 200ft by 25ft – could be the base of a device developed to block British and Russian submarine movements in the area.


The large steel-and-concrete structure could be one of the most essential historical finds in years.


Autellus claims it would have been built of double-skinned concrete and reinforced with wire mesh to baffle radar – which could clarify why the dive team’s equipment repeatedly failed near the mystery object.


‘The location was important to the German war machine simply because most of the ball bearings for its tanks and trucks came from right here. Without having them the German army would have ground to a halt,’ explained one professional.


‘This device dwarfs anything ever located ahead of and is an essential weapons discovery,’ they added.


Explorer Stefan Hogeborn – who is studying the images for the Ocean X diving team – agreed: ‘It is a good candidate for the answer to this mystery. The object lies directly underneath a shipping route.’




'It would be of enormous weight in steel and concrete. Other Nazi anti-sub anchoring devices had been nowhere near as huge,’ he added.


Whilst the Ocean Explorer team is understandably excited about their potentially earth-shattering find, other individuals are slightly far more sceptical and are questioning the accuracy of the sonar technologies.

 The 9th of July, Ocean X Team left on their second expedition to solve the mystery about the Baltic Sea anomaly. The crew will return to shore 21th of July


To be continued!


This does not, also, exclude those "crazy theories" about the Nazis and UFO's or "alien technology," either..  This is still my favorite non-doom story of 2012.  Me want more Baltic Anomaly!

Baltic Sea UFO: Ocean X Team Shows Amazing 3D Sonar Picture – Update June 28, 2012

Are you kidding me?  There's a second anomaly?  The suspense is killing me here!  Rather than finding one or two unknown entities, what if explorers have happened upon an unknown/unexplained area?  One of the coolest stories of 2012.  The Truth Behind The Scenes.  Excerpts:

Baltic Sea UFO Update June 28, 2012.



This is turning into one of the most amazing and perplexing discoveries in history. If you thought all of the questions surrounding the Baltic anomaly would be answered by the return trip, then you’d be wrong. The OceanX team have discovered right angles, walls with absolutely smooth surfaces and cavities-like corridors inside the object as well as something resembling a staircase – the weird just got weirder.
And:
In a recent Swedish radio interview, Aasberg described some amazing features which seem to indicate that the object is man made, or perhaps a natural formation that has been altered or engineered. In various radio and TV interviews the team have described the surfaces of the dome to be similar to concrete both in texture and appearance. The massive pillar on which the dome rests may be made of a different material indicating that the entire anomaly may not be one complete piece but rather two separate objects with the dome resting on top of the main pillar, and if so, who or what placed the dome on top? Also, when we say pillar – this is a pillar that is approx 180-190 feet thick.



“We arrived there twice, and the question mark has become so much bigger now, “says Dennis Åsberg.The area is a completely circular plate with 180 metres in circumference, and therefore believed that it was the first traces of a meteor.”


“But there are 1,500-metre track in bed until the subject matter-and they have also discovered right angles, walls with absolutely smooth surfaces and cavities-like corridors inside the object.– When we went out and saw the walls which were straight and smooth, it was frightening, as in a science-fiction film, “says Dennis Åsberg on Ocean x-team as soon exploring the unknown object again.“


During the dive, the team swam slowly over the top of the object looking down where they encountered the first of many strange sights. Stone circles, like “fireplaces”, of hard black “almost petrified” burnt looking stone each a few inches in diameter, like 4 or 5 pearls in a necklace in various arrangements on top of the dome some 12 metres high off the seabed. The stones appear to be arranged in definite circular shapes, so there is no possibility of this being done through any natural process of weathering or even glaciation.
And:
Some 200 metres away lies the second strange anomaly which is amazingly yet to be explored! The initial sidescan sonar images show something described by the team as shaped like a “gothic church window”. Similar to the main anomaly this object also has an area leading up to it of disturbed seafloor or what could be a ridge. The divers were so amazed by the main anomaly that they simply didn’t have time to dive on the second one. The return trip in two weeks time should present an opportunity for this to finally be explored.

There is the real possibility that the second anomaly may help give clues to the origin and nature of the main object.

Lindberg concludes: “The 3D Multibeam sonar data take a while to process. It will not be until end of next week we will be able to see the first 3D images from the area. I have seen the raw data though and if what I have seen will be confirmed by the finished result we will get some quite amazing facts to think about.”

So tantalizing..  I can't wait!  Provided this isn't a hoax, this could be a huge discovery..  But where?  Again:  What is this?  Alien technology?  Ancient settlement?  UFO?  Rooftop?  Outskirts of something larger? 

Somebody somewhere needs to fasttrack and enlarge this project yesterday already!  This discovery could be big clue for us, about us.  It has that potential.  I hope it's made a priority.

Baltic Sea UFO Continues To Confound; A Closer Look Yields Even More Questions

Mysterious Baltic Sea Object Raises More Questions.  NDT Televison/China.  Excerpts, plus video at link:

Ocean X team returns from their first expedition investigating the mysterious object they discovered in the Baltic Sea.

The expedition was supposed to provide answers, but instead yielded yet more questions.
It has also broadened the minds of those involved!


[Peter Lindberg, Treasure Hunter]:
“We have experienced things that I really couldn’t imagine and I have been the team's biggest skeptic regarding these different kind of theories. I was kind of prepared just to find a stone or cliff or outcrop or pile of mud but it was nothing like that, so for me it has been a missing experience I must say.” (Chinese translation, maybe?  I don't know what a "missing experience" is..)


The team were completely dwarfed by the mysterious object, which is about 60 meters in diameter and lying almost 80 meters down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
There are visible formations on top of the object, which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase.The divers also found a hole about 25 centimeters in diameter, though it is not yet known where it leads.
In addition, they found circular forms of small rocks that appear to have been placed like a pearl necklace.
Geologists who follow their work haven´t been able to explain what it is yet.
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Also, some strange phenomenon occurred…

A main objective of the dive was to film the object, and yet the camera stopped working when they approached the object.


[Stefan Hogerborn, Professional Diver]:
“Why isn’t anything working, anything electric out there and the satellite phone as well stopped working when we were above the object and then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again and when we got back over the object it didn’t work so that’s kind of strange as well.”


Mr Hogerborn says he has never experienced anything like this during his 20 years as a professional diver.


Dennis Åsberg of the Ocean X team is one hundred percent sure after the first expedition that they have found something quite unusual.
[Dennis Åsberg, Treasure Hunter]:
"I am one hundred percent convinced and confident that we have found something that is very, very, very unique. Then if it is a meteorite or an asteroid or a volcano or a base from, say, a U-boat from the Cold War which has manufactured and placed there, yes, or if it's a UFO, well honestly it has to be something."


Lab results will be forthcoming, and a second expedition is already planned to depart in two weeks.

Every new discovery adds to the intrigue..  Oh, Baltic anomaly, I love your mysterious ways!  Will you please turn out to be something much larger and cooler than our limited imaginations can fathom?  Also, if you could, please don't be the property of  some race of jerk ass aliens with a taste for human flesh!  Inter-galactic hugs and kisses!
-L-

Baltic Sea 'UFO' still cloaked in secrecy

Some more background, and a better perspective on whatever this anomaly turns out to be..  The Examiner. Excerpts:

The so-called "Baltic Sea UFO" is in the news again this week after a research vessel returned to its co-ordinates and sent a team of divers down to the seabed for a closer look. Despite having a live feed and access to updates on Facebook, so far, only cryptic messages have been released.


What's down there? At this point, it's either the biggest story the world has ever known or a massive publicity stunt engineered to lure in faithful UFO disclosure advocates. Either way, the public (believers and non-believers alike) are waiting for every breathless dispatch.

The story began last summer when treasure hunters Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg were sweeping an area off the Swedish coast when their side-scan SONAR picked up a large, rounded object on the seabed hundreds of feet below the surface.
Initial observation aboard the vessel revealed the object was not like any other sunken vessel ever discovered because of its immense size (200 feet in circumference) and its unusual, circular shape. Not having the means to dive down on the mystery object, its position was recorded and all data saved for later review.


In July, 2011, Lindberg and Asberg studied the data further and released a video of the SONAR images on YouTube, which quickly went viral. Paranormal researchers immediately seized on the video as evidence of ancient alien visitation and the object was nicknamed the "Millennium Falcon" because of its uncanny resemblance to the spaceship made famous by the Star Wars saga.


For his part, Lindberg has left the alien speculation open to debate. In his initial statements he landed on the side of something man-made and floated the possibility of a sunken Stonehenge or a remnant of the fabled Lost City of Atlantis.

Debunkers (mainly scientists) have decried the early speculation, believing rather that the object is merely an anomaly of the equipment used or perhaps a sunken vessel, possibly of Russian origin, lost more than a century ago.

The so-called "Baltic Sea UFO" is in the news again this week after a research vessel returned to its co-ordinates and sent a team of divers down to the seabed for a closer look. Despite having a live feed and access to updates on Facebook, so far, only cryptic messages have been released.


Still, the story was much too juicy to let it go at that, and, over the winter and spring of 2011-2012 donations came pouring in for a revisit to the site.
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Over the past few days, only dribs and drabs of information have been forthcoming, the most tantalizing being the "breaking news" dispatch released on June 7, from the research team's own website, claiming that, "The divers are now down and investigating the circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed – a Mystery Beneath. More information and pictures will be released next week."

Then, on Sunday, Dennis Asberg sent out a Facebook update which only adds to the confusion while deepening the mystery--and the hype. "Everything is top secret now because of the risks, hope you all understand this is no game." posts Asberg. "But the truth will be reported shortly."

Sketchy details are more the province of the treasure hunter rather than the legitimate scientist, so these dispatches have to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. But, if there is a startling, world-changing discovery in the offing, even the dedicated professional would be hard-pressed on just how to release that news.

So, maybe, there is something to this after all. If it turns out to be the prototype gun turret from some old Russian warship, it will still be an important archaeological find.

But, if it ends up being real evidence that ancient aliens have indeed visited Earth, it could be the biggest story of all time.

Either way, stay tuned...

I like this interpretation of events a little better than yesterday's post, as the term "hoax" was thrown out far too quickly to be impartial or realistic.  Events unfolding in real time do not have a schedule, and are not subject to the whims and wishes of the Internet observer or blogger.  This event will play out as it plays out, and I, for one, will be patient for whatever statement Ocean X provides..  When they provide it.  If it is indeed a Russian warship, that will be a cool consolation prize, as any new archaeological find always is..

Having said that, I'd still love to see this "anomaly" rise out of the ocean, live on every news network, and fly off.  If that happens, I will go crazy with glee!  C'mon aliens:  Give us a show!