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Originally posted by ItsAnOddFuture
I'm sorry, but simply posting a picture of a vessel that is shaped similar to what is in the sonar images proves absolutely nothing. It just raises the possibility of what it could be. Until a team dives down to it or surfaces it, all you can do is speculate.
You don't want believers to insist that it is a spacecraft, so don't insist that it is a sunken sea vessel.
Yet there's another theory: the USO is neither an extraterrestrial craft nor a natural feature but instead a rotating gun turret from a World War II era battleship. It's possible that an explosion on the ship’s deck could have blown it out of the deck ring where it was anchored and it slid into the ocean’s depths, more or less intact. Such an explosion would not necessarily have sunk the ship, so the lack of nearby wreckage may not be a mystery.
The turret-less ship might have made it back to port, or may have continued to another location where it eventually succumbed and sank. The top-heavy turret would likely have sunk with the cannons face down in the ocean floor, and would not necessarily have been seen in the sonar image. In fact, Lindberg and his crew were originally drawn to the area in search of Swedish merchant ships sunk by the German navy in World War I.
So what is it? Until someone actually goes down to search the object more closely (or recover it) -- a potentially time-consuming and expensive proposition -- we may never know. It’s a genuine mystery, and, as is often the case, the most mundane explanation may be the most likely.
Originally posted by remyrange
reply to post by burntoast
The official news release shows that the USO was about 60ft diameter, while the Russian Ship in my link was about 100ft. But there were others built, at various sizes, even one that served as a private yacht for the Tsar. Who knows what the actual diameter of one of these prototype experimental vessels was.
Originally posted by poet1b
From the links provided, the Russians only made 3 of these ships, and all three are accounted for, so unless there is some record of a fourth ship that somehow wound up near Sweden, than this explanation that it is one of these Russian ships is extremely unlikely.
Also, is there any record of a gun turret this large? And lost at Sea? The Bismark was only 36M wide.
Originally posted by Pauligirl
Here’s another theory-didn’t read the other threads so don’t know if this has been posted before
news.discovery.com...=emnws1
Yet there's another theory: the USO is neither an extraterrestrial craft nor a natural feature but instead a rotating gun turret from a World War II era battleship. It's possible that an explosion on the ship’s deck could have blown it out of the deck ring where it was anchored and it slid into the ocean’s depths, more or less intact. Such an explosion would not necessarily have sunk the ship, so the lack of nearby wreckage may not be a mystery.
The turret-less ship might have made it back to port, or may have continued to another location where it eventually succumbed and sank. The top-heavy turret would likely have sunk with the cannons face down in the ocean floor, and would not necessarily have been seen in the sonar image. In fact, Lindberg and his crew were originally drawn to the area in search of Swedish merchant ships sunk by the German navy in World War I.
So what is it? Until someone actually goes down to search the object more closely (or recover it) -- a potentially time-consuming and expensive proposition -- we may never know. It’s a genuine mystery, and, as is often the case, the most mundane explanation may be the most likely.