Message #264628

[Terran Kess]

Lindberg’s claim that the object “is perfectly round” may or may not be accurate; while it looks round from the information so far, the resolution of the sonar image was not high enough to verify that it is indeed round. And while the lines that appear to be leading to (or from) the feature may suggest some sort of movement, it’s also possible they have nothing to do with the object.

Lindberg himself did not suggest that it was of extraterrestrial origin, though he did speculate that it might be a “new Stonehenge.”

This is not the first time a sunken object has been presented as the solution to a mystery. Take, for example, the famous underwater mystery of the “Bimini Road,” a rock formation in the Caribbean near the Bahamas that resembles a road or wall. Many New Agers and conspiracy theorists claimed that the rocks were too perfectly shaped to be natural, and that they were either made by an unknown civilization or left behind by the lost city of Atlantis. In fact, geologists have identified the blocks as unusually shaped but perfectly natural weathered beach rock.

Lindberg said his team has neither the interest nor the resources for further investigation of the anomaly. Deep ocean research is time-consuming and expensive. If the object were indeed a flying saucer, recovering it could be worth millions or billions of dollars. If it’s a natural formation, on the other hand, it would probably be a waste of time and money.

Benjamin Radford