Are unidentified submerged objects a security threat?

(NewsNation) — UFOs person been successful the headlines recently, but immoderate are disquieted astir a antithetic benignant of unidentified phenomenon: Unidentified submerged objects.

There person been hundreds of cases of unidentified submerged objects, oregon USOs. While the thought of mysterious creatures of the seas whitethorn telephone up to caput aged beliefs successful mermaids oregon Kraken oregon modern cryptids similar the Loch Ness monster, these phenomena person been identified arsenic a information risk.

With 80% of the world's oceans unexplored, it's hard to scientifically find what these objects are. Richard Dolan, a UAP historian, has researched much than 600 cases of USOs. It comes with challenges, helium told NewsNation.

"Most radical are onshore lovers. We unrecorded connected land," Dolan said. "We're not retired successful the mediate of the water. Unless you unrecorded connected the enactment of an water oregon of a ample lake, you're going to beryllium improbable to spot specified water-based phenomenon."

Dolan identified cases done publically disposable databases, including those from the National UFO Center and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), arsenic good arsenic articles and books.

Around 20% of the cases Dolan researched person had to bash with the military. While the Pentagon has not needfully been responsive, helium believes determination is nary mode higher-level officers successful the Navy were unaware.

One lawsuit from 1971 progressive the USS John F. Kennedy craft carrier. There was a elaborate study from a sailor connected that vessel who ran communications.

"(OMGHe) described conscionable aft they had finished a precise intensive play of grooming called bearer qualifications, they were successful the Caribbean and they saw this massive, orange, glowing spherical entity that hovered supra the vessel and, according to what helium said, unopen down their communications for a bully 20 to 25 minutes," Dolan said.

Some cases, similar the 1971 case, impact objects flying successful the aerial earlier dropping beneath the aboveground of the water.

Others, however, were aboriginal explained with the find of caller marine animals. Those see a 1976 incidental involving a torpedo betterment vessel that was dragging a cargo parachute that got snagged connected something. After a fight, the unit pulled a 750-pound, 15-foot-long carnal connected board.

That carnal turned retired to beryllium a megamouth shark, which had ne'er been seen earlier that incidental and has lone been witnessed 100 times since then.

While some whitethorn see USOs arsenic perchance extraterrestrial successful nature, adjacent encounters attributed to earthly creatures tin beryllium terrifying successful their ain right. Take a 1978 case involving the USS Stein, wherever portion of the rubber connected the ship's hull was shredded.

Remnants of claws and teeth were recovered connected the hull, the aforesaid benignant recovered successful the suction cups of a elephantine squid. There was conscionable 1 problem: Previously recovered specimens of the aforesaid benignant were lone a fraction of the size of those recovered connected the Stein.

The size of the claws would bespeak a elephantine squid astir 150 long, ample capable to see that possibly tales of the Kraken mightiness not beryllium truthful fantastic aft all.

The specimen was ne'er recovered. To this day, the largest elephantine squid ever recorded was conscionable shy of 43 feet long.