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| James_H2 Great Old One Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Total posts: 709 Location: Hackney! Gender: Male |
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| The Swedish article that EnolaGaia has posted seems much more detailed. Is there any chance that a Swedish-speaking poster could give us a précis? |
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| stuneville Administrator
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 13:50 Post subject: |
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By the miracle of Google translate:
| Quote: | Mysterious circles in the Baltic Sea
Dragged forward? Next to the circle is a 300 meter long slide track - as if the circle has traveled across the seabed before it has settled. Dragged forward? Next to the circle is a 300 meter long slide track - as if the circle has traveled across the seabed before it has settled. Photo: Peter Lindberg Peter Lindberg Peter Lindberg Photo: PRIVATE Dennis Dennis Asberg Asberg Photo: Private
An algal bloom? A mine? A UFO?
No one knows.
But it is clear that Swedish treasure hunters found a giant circle on the Baltic seabed.
The bay was a mirror in the morning on June 19. Six of the nine crew members aboard the fishing vessel lake was still asleep in their bunks. Barely awake sat remaining three, staring at the screen that shows what is hidden on the seabed.
The group called Ocean Explorers and call themselves treasure hunters. Their mission is to comb the Baltic Sea wrecks containing alcohol which can then be sold at auction. 1997 found leader Peter Lindberg wreck Jonkoping in the Åland archipelago. On board were champagne that has subsequently been sold for millions of dollars.
But this morning they found something quite different.
"Something solid down there"
At 87 meters, between Sweden and Finland, they saw a large circle, about 60 feet in diameter.
- You see a lot of weird stuff in this profession, but during my 17-18 years as a professional vrakletare I have never seen anything like this. Shape, completely round the circle, makes this unique, said Peter Lindberg.
Next to the circle is a 300 meter long slide track - as if the circle has traveled across the seabed before it has settled.
- Germans have been there, the Russians have been there, dumped a huge, yes, it is not inconceivable, said Dennis Åsberg one involved in the expedition.
What would it have been?
- I have no idea. All I know is that I've seen anything down there that is solid - stone, concrete or steel - and that is completely round.
Too early to determine
They rule out theories that there is a depth bomb or mine from the First World War - or a symmetrical blooms.
- It does me completely. This is not soft, says Peter Lindberg.
Andreas Olsson, marine archaeologist at the National Maritime Museums, will see pictures of the circle and say it is too early to determine what it is:
- The most likely scenario is still that there is a natural ground formation. |
Though the bot may have missed some subtleties, so a native translation would be helpful too  .
Especially in light of Peter Lindberg's statement above..
"It does me completely. This is not soft.." indeed. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-07-2011 14:44 Post subject: |
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| I bet it will turn out to be something disappoiningly mundane. |
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| Waylander28 Booga Boo!!!
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 14:53 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | I bet it will turn out to be something disappoiningly mundane. |
Something like a large round rock, would that be mundane enough. |
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| Bigfoot73 Great Old One Joined: 19 May 2009 Total posts: 1079 Location: Leeds Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-07-2011 15:14 Post subject: |
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There is a large chunk of it missing - if it was ever there in the first place - and no 'missing' pieces in the slide track.
It has fissures which run all the way through it, and from top to bottom - hence it is solid. Rock solid. |
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| eburacum Papo-Furado
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 19:39 Post subject: |
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| Or a viral internet meme of some kind. Many of the most interesting Fortean stories these days have some viral aspect to them: that is to say, they are deliberately fabricated for one reason or another, often by person or persons who remain unknown. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-07-2011 20:42 Post subject: |
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The drag track does not seem very clear to me.
More obvious is another partial circle, left of and below the main one.
Possibly a double meteor strike when this part of the Baltic was dry land in the last(?) Ice Age? If it was soon covered by rising sea levels, it would not have suffered the erosion it would have on land.
As the Baltic is non-tidal, there'd be little to erode it once it was underwater, and as the post Ice Age sea level rises occured in (IIRC) three, fast, separate phases, it may not have been at the shore line long enough to be eroded. And in a few thousand years it's unlikely to have been obliterated by silt.
But on second thoughts, they're flying saucers!  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 20:43 Post subject: |
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It may be the remains of an ancient caldera, or an ancient asteroid strike.
Or an experimental WWII aircraft...
Or... |
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| Timble2 Imaginary person Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total posts: 7114 Location: Practically in Narnia Age: 58 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 25-07-2011 20:51 Post subject: |
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| ..,part of an oil drilling platform... |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 20:56 Post subject: |
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| Secret HQ of the Rotarians? |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 21:09 Post subject: |
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It's the Round Table! You hit the nail on the head...
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| Moooksta Muppet
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| Posted: 25-07-2011 23:02 Post subject: |
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CYLONS !!!!  |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-07-2011 23:18 Post subject: |
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| Mysterons! |
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