In 2018, oceanologists got as close as possible to unraveling the mystery of one of the most mysterious anomalies, but then authorities intervened, declaring the object a “geological formation” and imposing a ban on private individuals and companies studying it.
The Swedish company Ocean X, headed by Dennis Osberg, specializes in exploring the mysteries of the sea floor. It is not only a strong team of enthusiasts, but also a technically equipped company with the 56-meter research vessel OceanX MV Alucia, equipped with cameras and a helipad.
They were the first to capture a giant sea squid, study sinkholes, recover the wreckage of an Airbus A330 that crashed in 2009 from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and test a prototype of the Orpheus deep-sea drone developed by Woods Hole Institute and NASA.
They also, on a tip from a Russian colleague, discovered in 2015 in Swedish territorial waters the wreckage of the Russian submarine Som, which sank a century ago.
In 2010, the Swedes found an unusual object in the Baltic Sea at a depth of 87 meters. It looked like a spaceship, as if it had arrived from the set of Star Wars. The main feature of the ship was a “loading chamber” – a giant platform with a runway against which the divers looked like small fish.
“The Baltic Anomaly,” as the divers nicknamed it, lay on the seabed. Chemical analysis of the material of which the unusual object was made, confirmed the conjecture that the object found at the bottom was not something of natural origin.
The first images from the depths allowed scientists to see something from the bottom of the sea in detail – a round object of correct geometric shape, 60 meters in diameter and without sharp edges.
A 300-meter-wide strip was visible near the found object on the bottom, as if the mysterious ship had landed. The press was full of headlines such as “Alien Ship” and “Millennium Falcon,” alluding to Han Solo’s ship from the same “Star Wars.
Fans of alternative history who have studied Ocean X data have seen a fragment of Atlantis in the giant artifact. Someone talked about the obvious presence of ramps and stairs at the site.
Geologist Steve Weiner of the Ocean X team, after conducting appropriate research, rejected versions of the natural origin of the “Baltic Anomaly”. He noted that it is a metal or metal alloy not found in nature.
Journalists and alternative historians did not subside, and soon a version emerged that a Nazi submarine from the secret designs of the Third Reich lay at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
The assumption was based on the historical fact that the Germans often conducted their secret tests there, and just beyond that was the Rügen test site, which later became a missile base.
Scientists have reacted skeptically to all the assumptions. They noted that the picture of the object was made poorly, and the human imagination in such cases likes to finish drawing what does not and never was.
Archaeologist Göran Ekberg noted that although the find was strange and in appearance did resemble the work of human hands or the intervention of alien intelligence, it is far from the first such object in the world.
Interestingly, however, the results of the Stockholm geologists’ study, as well as Ocean X’s calculations, were quickly removed from public sources.
It was also reported that the case was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Swedish and Norwegian secret services. Divers on the Ocean X team seemed concerned when told of the find.
In particular, Stefan Hogerborn was not convinced by the scientists’ arguments, and he still believes that the guys found something unique.
In favor of this version is the evidence that the originally published documents recorded some kind of “electromagnetic bursts,” similar to the surface sonar of submarines. The data about them disappeared from the public domain along with the vast majority of materials about the underwater anomaly.
In addition, divers claimed that it was impossible to take good quality pictures near the object. Why? There are several versions about it – from the influence of electromagnetic fields to a force unknown to science, which disables the equipment.
The main skeptic, scientist Peter Lindbergh, met with reporters several times and said that this was the strangest find of his life and that he had more questions than answers. And then he suddenly stopped communicating.
Journalists learned from him that all phones and other electrical appliances within 25 meters of the find stopped working. For about a month after the dive, all crew members experienced migraines and fever, as if they had been heated in a giant microwave oven.
There is still no explanation for another oddity – who and why could give the command to terminate this mission and switch to search for other objects. There are, indeed, enough of them at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But it seems that somebody tried to put an end to this story by force. An official ban has already been obtained for ordinary divers to dive at this location on the seafloor.
In 2018, scientists from Stockholm University stated that the “Baltic Anomaly” is a product of geological origin and it is not worth looking for signs of an alien presence where there is none. The researchers refused to answer other questions about electromagnetic radiation and health problems.
At the moment, the official authorities have done everything necessary to prevent ordinary people from studying this object, and private companies are also forbidden to study it. If it were just a “geological object” would it be necessary to shut up unwanted researchers and introduce such bans?
It is likely that the special services are studying this object now and the alien ship lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea continues to send distress signals into deep space. Maybe when it is responded to, we will finally find out whose ship it is?
