A Swedish nautical salvaging team which calls itself, with a stunning lack of originality, The Ocean Explorer Team, may have discovered something amazing.
The Ocean Explorer Crew at Work
In the sea between Sweden and Finland, at a depth of about 100 meters, there is a circular object, about 20 meters across, with some artificial looking markings on it. Circular. So it’s not some ancient Viking craft, or some lost Nazi U-boat from WWII. Also, there’s a fairly long, straight trail right behind it. UFO buffs think it might be a crashed spaceship. The thing is, it really looks like it.
The Ocean Explorer Team is skeptical. So skeptical, at first, that they weren’t even going to bother going down to look. “Eh, it’s probably nothing,” they said, “and that’s a lot of effort for no profit.”
Anyway, they did put a picture of the USO (unidentified submerged object) on their website and enough people donated money that they said “Oh, all right, we’ll go take a look, if you insist.”
It probably is nothing. I expect that, like the face on Mars , it will look a lot less like a flying saucer and a lot more like a natural feature the closer you get to it. I was really excited by the face on Mars when I first heard about it.
Sure, I believe that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy. There are just so many planets, and water is so ubiquitous, that there must be. I’m not convinced that any of them are regular visitors to Earth, though. It’s the old time travel paradox. If it existed, we’d know about it by now. If there were aliens visiting Earth, they’d have no real reason to be secretive about it. The “non-interference” doctrine was just a plot device for Star Trek, and even they ignored it in practically every episode.
If any species has managed to cross dozens of light years, they are so far more advanced than us that they really wouldn’t give a half second’s thought to our opinions or sensibilities. They’d be like human explorers looking at jellyfish. They don’t really care if the jellyfish looks back.
It’s hard to believe, also, that they’d crash a ship. If they can make it across interstellar space in one piece, they’re not likely to run out of fuel and ditch in the ocean. On the other hand, it’s only 20 meters across, so it wouldn’t have been the mother ship. Maybe some drunken low rank alien cosmonaut stole a shuttle craft and went for a joy ride. Maybe some depressed alien, far from home, decided to take his own life. Maybe they just found Earth that depressing.
So, it’s probably nothing, but I’m glad they are going down for a closer look. Because, seriously, if it turns out to be an alien spacecraft, that would be awesome.
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Wrong measures, it’s about 60 m across, not ft.
Thanks. Anyway, still too small to be the mother ship. Also, you should tell AOL.
Right. An entire colony of Green Men from Mars, all ten feet tall and smelling strongly of bad cologne, could descend on Stockholm tomorrow, level all the buildings, snatch the entire population, store them for food, erect a force field around the ruins and then start burrowing in in preparation for the next ice age. And the Swedes who weren’t being used for munchies would just shrug and say, in Swedish, “Oh, it’s probably nothing.”