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The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 16, 2026
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Baltic Sea anomaly — ATSB / Phoenix International / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

In June 2011, a Swedish treasure-hunting team called OceanX returned from the Gulf of Bothnia with a blurry sonar image of something on the seafloor: a roughly circular, 200-foot feature they said looked man-made. When the Daily Mail ran the image in 2012, it became a globa…

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