‘UFO’ at the bottom of the Baltic Sea ‘cuts off electrical equipment when divers get within 200m’
– Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom
– Hole is surrounded by an strange rock formation that expedition team can not explain
– Stones are covered in something ‘resembling soot’ which has baffled experts
– Divers say phones and some cameras switch off when close to the object
By EDDIE WRENN
UPDATED: 01:26 EST, 27 June 2012
The divers exploring a ‘UFO-shaped’ object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say their equipment stops working when they approach within 200m.
Professional diver Stefan Hogerborn, part of the Ocean X team which is exploring the anomaly, said some of the team’s cameras and the team’s satellite phone would refuse to work when directly above the object, and would only work once they had sailed away.
He is quoted as saying: ‘Anything electric out there – and the satellite phone as well – stopped working when we were above the object.
‘And then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didn’t work.’
Hefty trajectory: The Swedish diving team noted a 985-foot flattened out ‘runway’ leading up to the object, implying that it skidded along the path before stopping but no true answers are clear
Diver Peter Lindberg said: ‘We have experienced things that I really couldn’t imagine and I have been the team’s biggest skeptic regarding these different kind of theories.
‘I was kind of prepared just to find a stone or cliff or outcrop or pile of mud but it was nothing like that, so for me it has been a missing experience I must say.’
Member Dennis Åsberg said: ‘I am one hundred percent convinced and confident that we have found something that is very, very, very unique. Continue reading