The Baltic Sea Anomaly: The ‘Crashed UFO’ on the Seabed

Satellite view of the Gulf of Bothnia between snow-covered Sweden and Finland — the waters where the Baltic Sea Anomaly was found on sonar in 2011; the image shows the sea, not the anomaly itself

About 4 min readIn June 2011 a Swedish treasure-hunting team found a 60-metre circle on the floor of the Baltic Sea, at the end of what looked like a skid track. Tabloids called it a crashed flying saucer. Geologists who examined the rocks said something far more ordinary — and the team has never let anyone else look.