By
Eddie Wrenn

UPDATED:

11:53 GMT, 1 June 2012

Since June last year, the strange shape at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has caused so much speculation.

Sonar pictures showed a massive, metallic cylinder with a 60 metre diameter and a 400 metre-long tail resting about 300 feet below the Baltic Sea – and no-one knows what it is.

It must be man-made, or a sonar anomaly – the alternative, perhaps, is that it comes from a universe far, far, away, as its startling likeness to the Millennium Falcon ship from the Star Wars saga implies.

Hopefully an answer is forthcoming, with deep sea divers heading to the shape today to get to the bottom of the matter – and surely it will be an eerie descent as they await to discover the secrets of the deep.

Their sonar pictures show that the object is a massive cylinder with a 60 metre diameter and a 400 metre-long tail. A similar disk-shaped object was also found about 200 metres away.

Their sonar pictures show that the object is a massive cylinder with a 60 metre diameter and a 400 metre-long tail. A similar disk-shaped object was also found about 200 metres away.

The Ocean Explorer team’s sonar pictures show that the object is a
massive cylinder with a 60 metre diameter and a 400 metre-long tail deep in the Baltic Sea. A
similar disk-shaped object was also found about 200 metres away

Unidentified treasure: Shipwreck divers are perplexed by the oddly-shaped object that they found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Unidentified treasure: Shipwreck divers are perplexed by the oddly-shaped object that they found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Deep sea divers, using remote-controlled cameras, are now on their way to the side, ready to find out once and for all what is down there.

A Swedish company named Ocean
Explorer discovered the unidentified sunken object using their sonar
technology in a secret location in the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland.

Because of a lack of funding and bad timing, they have were not able to pull a team together to see for themselves – just the strange, metallic outline, and a similar disk-shaped object about 200 metres away.

The sonar picture of the unidentified object resembles the famed Star Wars ship the Millennium Falcon

The sonar picture of the unidentified object resembles the famed Star Wars ship the Millennium Falcon

At this point, the story behind the object is anyone’s guess.

‘We’ve heard lots of different kinds
of explanations, from George Lucas’s spaceship – the Millennium Falcon – to “it’s some kind of plug to the inner world,” like it should be
hell down there or something,’ said Peter Lindberg, a diver on the team.

Speaking to Fox News, he said: ‘We don’t know whether it is a natural phenomenon, or an object. We saw it on sonar when we were searching for a wreck from World War I. This circular object just turned up on the monitor.

‘We’ll be searching the area in a number of ways.

‘We’ll use sonar to make 3D images of the bottom, the clay bottom, of that part of the sea. We’ll send down deep-sea divers too. And a camera robot.

‘We’ll also take samples from the sea bed and measure them for toxicities and radiation.’

But Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of
Skeptical Inquirer magazine, told the Huffington Post: ‘My guess is that they won’t find anything. They may just find a large
roundish rock.

‘”Side-scan sonar is not a photograph and it can create false echoes, so
it’s not crystal clear what exactly it is that you’re recording.

‘The object that we’re talking about is basically flush
with the ocean floor, and side-scan sonar is much less reliable for
things like that.’

While the Ocean Explorer
team is understandably excited about their potentially earth-shattering
find, others are slightly more sceptical and are questioning the
accuracy of the sonar technology.

In the past, such technology has confused foreign objects with unusual- but natural – rock formations.

The
Baltic Sea is a treasure trove for shipwreck hunters, as an estimated
100,000 objects are thought to line the cold sea’s floor.

The
company have created a submarine that they hope will appeal to tourists
and wannabe shipwreck hunters who will pay to take a trip down to the
bottom of the Baltic Sea to see for themselves.

Tourist trips: Diver Peter Lindberg is hoping to take wealthy tourists down in this submarine to see the object

Tourist trips: Diver Peter Lindberg is hoping to take wealthy tourists down in this submarine to see the object

The Baltic Sea is a treasure trove for shipwreck hunters, as an estimated 100,000 objects are thought to line the cold sea's floor.

The Baltic Sea is a treasure trove for shipwreck hunters, as an estimated 100,000 objects are thought to line the cold sea’s floor.

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Waste of time, they are not there any more, the ufo pilots parked them somewhere else soon after.

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looks like a broken biscuit not like star wars ship

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That is the last time Hans lets me park the Falcon when drunk!

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It’s not a UFO, as it has to be flying, The object is submerged on the Ocean Floor. – Gary , Oceanside, CA USA, 01/6/2012 16:09
Unidentified Fallen Object?

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Looks more like a Goa’uld Star Glider than the Millennium Falcon, to me. Probably a rock formation though.

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Such a shame that should it turn out to be something from outside our own planet, we the general public will never find out anyway. I was told – a very long time ago, that Governments keep a tight lid on things they have discovered, and the standard policy is to deny everything, and ridicule any private observations in order to avoid mass panic, this ‘find’ won’t be any different!

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Just like the famous face on Mars , I suspect we will find it is just a lump of rock, in this case one whose image has been distorted by the depth and by the ocean. What is even more strange is that the DM feels able to describe it as “a massive metallic cylinder” when there is quite clearly no evidence in existence whatsoever as to what it is really made from. DM journalism of the quality of the National Enquirer where the true facts are never allowed to get in the way of a sensationalist story.

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I’ll be interested to see what they find – it does seem “too” geometric to be natural, but nature is capable of surprising us every day.

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This will be interesting to see what it is either a rock crystal formation or a ship of some kind or perhaps something a little more sinister like
a dumping ground for nuclear waste from the cold war perhaps. Marks from Notts idea of the russian ship nogorod is sound except mark they scrapped all the ships and they
were cut up.

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No one would think twice about this image if these sci-fi films weren’t made.

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