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Mysterious Object Found In Seabed
iONiUM writes "Scientists have found a strange object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland. While claims are flying around that its a UFO that strangely resembles the Millennium Falcon, it is probably something more benign."
Regurgitated by a giant squid...?
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What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
Which "scientists" did they drag out to say this was a UFO?
Somebody round up Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson!
"While claims are flying around that its a UFO that strangely resembles the Millennium Falcon,"
Everyone knows when you let a Wookie fly your insurance rates go up for a reason.
That ninth parsec is a bitch to navigate!
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An "object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland" could hardly be classified as a flying object, unidentified or otherwise.
To bring us this information?
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Another wonderful piece of speculative garbage from The Daily Mail - how surprising...
In the Daily Mail - it must be true! Also this line was cute: "his team do not have the money or resources to examine the shape further. If it does turn out to be a UFO it will be priceless". All that's needed is an address so I can send the cheque!
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After further study, scientists discovered that the object consisted almost entirely of old discarded IKEA furniture.
Maybe he can examine the skeletal remains of the pilot.
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That's not Millenium Falcon. The galaxy is too far away. But it's clearly a Dralthi, Kilrathi medium fighter.
...Bothnians died to get us this information.
People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
I think it is alive as at the top right of the item it looks like there is a smiley face in the grainy sonar image. It must like having its picture taken.
Time to offend someone
Ia! Ia!
What's the rule on rhetorical questions in news headlines?
The editor thinks it would be a better story if the answer were yes. But it is actually no.
Damn, Tom Cruise was right after all.
It really should be called a USO (Unidentified Swimming Object) instead.. harr!
In all seriousness, intelligent life is not the only force capable of producing circles. Nature does this all the time, in form of craters, bubbles, sinkholes, erosion (like in rivers or currents)... that could be anything. To me it looks like some sort of crater that has been naturally filled in with some sort of substance, like sand.
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
Never heard anything about this in any Swedish media what so ever, not even our crappy papers that posts every new "UFO autopsy in Russia" video they find.
"Scientists " must be the most misused phrase ever.
It's a viral publicity stunt. Either that, or it's where Lucas hid the evidence that HAN SHOT FIRST!
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"The shape was found at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia during a search for a sunken wreck which contained several cases of champagne."
Many Bothnians died to bring us this information...
It is not flying hence it can't be an Unidentified Flying Object...
It might be an USO Unidentified Sunken Object...
It might also be a big rock... But it is not a UFO!!!
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......it obviously IS the Millennium Falcon . Lucas is ready to suit .
FTA: "Researchers have claimed the fuzzy outline is a flying saucer that ended up 300ft down on the ocean floor between Sweden and Finland."
They found this weeks ago, how come they haven't sent a diver down to look at it yet.
What can be more benign than the Millenium Falcon? The MF was used to restore freedom and liberty to the galaxy.
Unless of cou
Slaver in a stasis field. Don't open it. It's a trap.
Apparently they were searching for a wreck that contained 'several cases' of champagne.
Which surprises me. I'd expect they wouldn't put on a full salvage operation for less then a couple of boxes of Vodka.
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Why does /. still listed to this drivel?
Geez didn't you guys see that episode?
ITS THE DRAIN PLUG!
Perhaps they'll find one really wet wookiee.
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1) the "scientists" found the champagne they were looking for or
2) some joker held up a beer can next to the sonar receiver (it might say "please recycle").
By the way, did anyone else notice Nessie swimming by in one of the frames?
Am I the only one that thought of Sphere? Granted, it's in the wrong body of water and shaped wrong (I think the novel described it as something like a B2), but.... you know. Underwater ship that might have previously been used for extraplanetary travel...
Fine, I'll go back to work.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
No. It's UIO - unidentified immersed object.
A couple hours just to LOOK at a few hundred feet and they can't afford it, but are scouring the ocean for a few bottles of champagne? Hey there, Swedish Chef, slap on that silly tinfoil had and get your f-ing priorities in order. It's not like you'll break the bank to send down one automated sub for 20 minutes, or mix up some good gas for a diver to hit 300. Really? No money? You're fucking retarded.
underwater crop circle?
I awlasy knew that we came from a different world, and that we were not here by nature, more like a terraforming experiment of some superior race (ourselves 20 ,000 generations from now)....i guess this could be that terraforming soucoupe...?
See subject.
Also, from the article: Gulf of Bothnia.
It's just the result of a few drunk Swedes and Fins with diving suits goofing off after a hard night of drinking...
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For you UFO researchers who know this is no mere rock formation, you can learn more about the alien civilization whose ship this is by reading up on the legendary Apophenia alien civilization. This will tell you all about who put this clearly recognizable spaceship on the sea floor.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
My guess is that it's lost cargo that fell off of a ship. There are a number of Swedish and Finnish port cities along the Gulf of Bothnia. Luleå, for example, ships 7 million tons of cargo a year - much of it iron ore from mining. The object in question is probably some large piece of mining equipment.
10,000 shipping containers are lost into the sea across the globe each year. It's not unreasonable that some poorly secured piece of cargo slid off the deck of a cargo vessel, known only to the cargo company and their insurance company.
Just a weather balloon. Yep that's it, a weather balloon for collecting weather.
Fell in the ocean.
Nothing to see here, please move along. Just a weather balloon.
No, its obviously a weather ballon, duh.
I've been wondering where that went. I looked all over my apartment for it, even under the couch! And all this time it was sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Thanks for finding it for me, guys. I'll be over to pick it up when I can.
Who can George Sue for likeness rights on this one?
Underwater Flooded Object
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And of course by "scientists", they mean a group of guys with a boat and sonar equipment.
sorry, everybody, I left it there, I'll be removing it shortly.
You can't handle the truth.
"A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens."
Anyone who makes such wild accusations on such little evidence can hardly be called a scientist.
How can they possibly be misinterpreted! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars) The human senses are the least reliable form of identification. They're programmed to see certain things, and to fit an image into their expectations when they're not.
Usually people see faces in almost everything..
now why is everybody here seeing spaceships in this object?
It's clearly an old style Cylon fighter btw!
Google 'Cetan mega weapon' for more info.
Can't we send a diver down there with a specialized mixed-gas diving setup?
it runs linux 3.0 and has Captain America buried in there!
Everyone keeps saying this looks like the Millennium Falcon, but it's clearly a Cylon Raider. Or maybe it's one of the fighter ships Will Smith shot down in Independence Day. Either way, I'm sure we could only wish it were someone as friendly as Han and his wookiee friend.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Have gnu, will travel.
I for one welcome... bah.
I can guarantee you, there were no (real) Scientists involved in this "UFO" hypothesis. No scientist worth his salt is going to jump to a claim like that based on evidence that looks like a sawn-off tree trunk in a flooded marsh. Until physical samples are taken from it, it's all vapor.
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Well if it is aliens, its good to know their ships can crash just like all of ours. Helps to see that they aren't perfect, regardless of any advanced technology or 'magic' they could do.
Or its just some asshole billionaire's life size remote control millenium falcon that he lost control of and it crashed into the sea.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
i dropped a 60ft replica of the Millennium Falcon off the ferry on my way back from the Ikea flagship store.. if anyone sees it....
it's obviously a crater from a anti-submarine depth-charge.
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Looks just like a trawl door
anyone found it on google.maps?
Could it be a crater from a WW-II depth charge? ...It's only 300 feet from the surface.
Silly rabbits, this is just our planets assigned Von Neumann Probe. It's been silently communicating for ages with the glass tower on the dark side of the moon. ;-)
It's covered by 300 ft of water??? We'll NEVER be able to find out what it is for sure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
(Although the mail is much better than the mirror & sun)
Do not think about going inside The Sphere. No just try not to think about that. It's so dangerous the people from the future tried to hide it in the past at the bottom of the ocean.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
http://www.oceanexplorer.se/index.html
They'll send a team of scientists to investigate, spend millions on an underground lab that will be destroyed and in less than a year nobody will remember this thing existed.
It's pinin' for the fjords.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
This is the Remains of a bunker used by the Nazi's in the early 1800's (yeah they had time travel)
The bunkers purpose was to make human-koala hybrids. no real idea why this project failed.
Dude its a rock. probably the same one that killed the dinosaurs and re-wrote the bible.
Just talking out my arse, in all probability it is a scout ship sent out by an alien race hundreds of years ago, it crashed while trying to leave after building the pyramids and discovering what we call alcohol.
The Thing came from a round saucer. The detachable section from ST:TNG was also round.
I hope Picard is inside, but we'd better prepare for the former.
No need to read the sensationalist newspaper, just go straight to the original source instead. In english, ofc...
This is actually a quite interesting find, though far from the story described in the Daily Mail.
There's nothing to suggest that this couldn't be natural or human-made at this point, so that should be the null hypothesis. This chart helps explain that if a human can recreate a UFO sighting, then that's probably the case.
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They found the sawn off trunk of Yig!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_%28film%29
The boobs on the right side of the article are a bad thing to have on your screen at work.
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It will only empty the shallow seas, though. The big plug is to be found, yet.
I dont know what everyone is on about. Looks more like an Impact crater to me.. and wouldn't this make more sense?
"A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens."
So we've set the bar pretty low to call someone a scientist, eh?
or else!
We better not be violating the second Benthic treaty, that's all I have to say...
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1). It has no geometric uniformity whatsoever. It happens to be 'roundish' on one side...big deal. 2.) The people saying it may be a UFO are citing the 598 ft. 'path' of disturbed seabed trailing behind the object......but......think about it. If supposed UFO came screaming in to the atmosphere and hit the surface of the water, what would it do then (assuming it didn't disintegrate)? It would go subsurface at an angle, and then quickly just start dropping vertically. And IF it were under some sort of propulsion, even after it went under, you'd see a pile up of debris in front of the object....which you don't. So...I say it's just a natural rock formation.
Nope, not April 1.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Russian monitor Novgorod, which is about the right size. Scrapped in 1912, I am not sure where, but a lot of old boats did final duty as targets for weapon testing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ptavvs ..."
"A reflective statue is found at the bottom of one of Earth's oceans, having lain there for 1.5 billion years.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
How on earth has nobody referenced Sphere yet? Star Wars is really the best reference we can come up with when we find what looks like a space ship under the ocean? Pathetic!
The galaxy may not be that far finally.
You keep on using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Except your mom.
That you could be wrong.
...and I can't use any of them to downmod this stupid story.
Somebody tell Kenny, we've found his turtle.
Finaly they found it, this is my spaceship, Ive lost it 2 million years ago, before the Return of Jedi. Damn Wookies, they should never be let alone flying your favorite vehicle.
Bets regards to all
Han Solo.
Clearly it's just a weather balloon.
...from the 1978 movie/television program. Egads!!! Don't tell me Battlestar Galactica 1980 was right?!?
in my toilet!
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It once made Stockholm-Helsinki in under 5 parsecs.
[i]Ocean Explorer [b]off course[/b][/i] (sic)...
[READS TFA] Oh noes! It's in the Daily Fail! We's alls gonnas dies!
OK, got that out of the way. Reading further ... 60ft (about 18m ; trust the Daily Fail to use retard-measures) in diameter ; irregular profile including a more-or-less circular outline and transverse straight lines on an incomplete orthogonal grid. Sure looks "manufactured".
Now what, in the sea between Sweden and Finland, could make an 18m diameter mark on the seabed 86m down? I'd go for a spud can.
("Wossat?" I hear you say.)
They're the structures on the feet of "jackup" style drilling rigs that reduce the penetration of the leg into the seabed. One of the world's major rig building and maintenance yards is in Finland ; there are several similarly equipped yards in Sweden ; and there is an occasional traffic in rigs being moved through the Baltic to get into the Caspian Sea. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a jackup had been stacked or load-tested here after repairs (or new construction).
That's my wild-arsed guess. But what the fuck would I know? I rarely spend more than a couple of hours a month looking at seabed sonar scans.
Can I find comparable images on the net? Nope, not in 5 minutes of searching.
Well, anyway, the probability of me buying a copy of the Daily Fail when I don't have active (and extremely urgent) diarrhoea has not increased. And the urgency of this story is almost exactly zero.
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We dont know what it is......therefore we know its a spaceship from a galaxy far far away.
This is, after all, the Daily Mail.
That's no moon.
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We should be spending money on deep sea exploration as opposed to the stupid space. There is so much that is unexplored in the Earth's oceans, and we're already trying to jump the moon. Yeah, I know, space is more strategically important from a military standpoint, shooting lasers or dropping bombs from the orbit requires no flying it up there shortly before the fact, not mentioning the huge spying and communications potential, but really, Mars?
Maybe a sub base?
Check scan image against under side view of missing gun turrents from heavy warships - much more likely given the area than space alyans.
dolphins are intelligent which means they must not be native to earth so it's just a matter of finding where they parked their spacecraft
FTFA: The shape was found at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia during a search for a sunken wreck which contained several cases of champagne