The incredibly bizarre phenomenon on the seabed of the Baltic Sea is one of the biggest mysteries of the 21st century. The Baltic Sea Anomaly is a peculiar sonar image snapped in the northern Baltic Sea, in the Gulf of Bothnia, in the year 2011. Due to its unusual shape and large measurements, roughly 210ft (70m) across, conspiracy theorists have claimed the anomaly is a downed UFO. Others have proposed the Baltic Sea Anomaly is a submerged World War 2 bunker, a glacier remnant or a perfectly natural geological formation. So, what is it?
What is the Baltic Sea Anomaly?
The Baltic Sea Anomaly was discovered in 2011 by a Swedish team of divers, dubbed Ocean X Team, who were searching the Bothnian Sea for sunken treasure.
The Gulf of Bothnia serves as a waterway bridging Sweden and Finland and flows into the Baltic Sea.
During a treasure-hunting escapade into the landlocked body of water, the divers snapped a bizarre sonar image at a depth of 300ft (100m) beneath the water.
The anomaly appears roughly circular in shape, with two inlets and three prong-like portions.
From a distance, it looks like a chunky E, although some have suggested it looks like the Millennium Falcon spaceship from the Star Wars series of films.
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Baltic Sea Anomaly: The Anomaly is a bizarre structure discovered in the Baltic Sea (Image: OCEAN X TEAM)
Baltic Sea Anomaly: The anomaly was found by Ocean X Team in 2011 (Image: OCEAN X TEAM)
Due to the Anomaly’s bizarre shape, scores of conspiracy theorists have spent years trying to explain its supposed extraterrestrial origin.
There are so many things in our ocean that they do not want us to find
Some have suggested the Anomaly is a 14,000-years-old ancient temple built by a highly advanced civilisation centuries ago.
Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg, who discovered the Anomaly, themselves were baffled by their incredible finding.
In an official Ocean X Team video uploaded to YouTube in December 2018, Mr Lindberg described the Anomaly as he first saw it.
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He said: “One thing I find strange is that we have this hard surface but still we have a darker colour.
“If it is a hard surface it should have this white colour all over it but instead it looks like the bottom, which consists of clay and mud, which is very soft.
“The only hard surfaces we see are these thin lines, which are the corridors and the angular structures we have on the object.
“So this is something I want to find out – why it looks like this.”
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However, as recently as November 2018, a scientist has claimed to have solved the mystery once and for all.
Volker Bruchert, an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University, said: “I was surprised when I researched the material I found a great black stone that could be a volcanic rock.
“My hypothesis is that this object, this structure was formed during the Ice Age many thousands of years ago.
“Because the whole northern Baltic region is so heavily influenced by glacial thawing processes, both the feature and the rock samples are likely to have formed in connection with glacial and postglacial processes.
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“Possibly these rocks were transported there by glaciers.”
Ocean X Team is, however, adamant the Baltic Sea Anomaly is not a natural structure.
On their YouTube channel, the divers suggested the Government is holding back the truth of what the anomaly really is.
Ocean X Team wrote: “Do you think the government wants us to reveal what people do not know?
Baltic Sea Anomaly: The Anomaly sits in the Gulf of Bothnia (Image: GOOGLE MAPS)
Baltic Sea Anomaly: A scientists has claimed the Anomaly is a glacial deposit (Image: OCEAN X TEAM)
“If the object is a risk… type volcano or something else… and we have nuclear power plants nearby. Do you believe they want us to reveal the truth about it?
“There are so many things in our ocean that they do not want us to find … and I know that.
“We have been fooled by our government before, and YES they do everything they can to ruin us.
“It’s no joke that we’ve found an object of sixty meters in diameter… it’s 100 percent true.”