Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen is a coastal city in northeastern Scotland, United Kingdom, situated at the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don on the North Sea coast. It is Scotland's third-largest city and a major center for the North Sea oil industry. In UAP research, Aberdeen serves as the geographic reference point for the alleged 1991 North Atlantic USO retrieval described by witness Mark on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM on 19 April 2002.
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Role in the 1991 Retrieval Case
The alleged 1991 USO retrieval took place approximately 250 nautical miles (roughly 288 standard miles) west of Aberdeen, in waters consistent with the Rockall Trough — a deep-water feature east of the Rockall Plateau where ocean depths exceed 8,000 feet. A DSRV crew dispatched from Virginia dove to just under 1.5 miles of depth and recovered a triangular, charcoal-gray craft approximately 68–70 feet long with no visible windows, rivets, seams, or mechanical features on its underside. The craft bore repeating geometric markings along its hull and had been estimated by a marine archaeologist to have rested on the seafloor for 30 to 40 years prior to recovery.
UAP Gerb used Aberdeen as a fixed reference point to estimate the approximate recovery location. Factoring in a plus-or-minus 20% error radius, the estimated recovery area extends to a maximum radius of approximately 345 standard miles west of Aberdeen — an area that includes the deep waters of the Rockall Trough.