USO Case Book: Unidentified Submerged Objects Throughout History

the United States most well-known UFO investigation panels projects sign Grudge and Blue Book ran from 1949 to 1969 and collected data on more than 13,000 UFO sightings of this massive body of sightings 258 cases reported UFO sightings by ships and a small percentage of these highlight unidentified submerged objects or trans medium objects of course as I highlighted in my last Uso video go check that out 1950 2's opnav directive 3820 restricted Navy UFO sightings to only be shared with Air Force technical Intelligence Center USAF intelligence and director of Naval intelligence so it is no wonder we are left wanting for officially reported Uso but what about the cases we do have and what other cases that don't appear in Blue Book that span our history are worth our time hey guys it's UAP gerb and join me as we take a closer look at Uso sightings throughout history from Blue Book to the modern day to pre-World War I let's analyze reported cases of unidentified submerged objects and guys today we will not just be sticking with the us but analyzing Global cases I find worth studying as mentioned in the intro only 2% of Blue Book cases AKA 258 reports involved Seas sightings of UFOs and 13 of these reports can be class classified as good meeting Merit standards for UFO Reporting and a handful of these cases with relevant data describe Uso and trans medium object found in the annals of Blue Book indexing is a sighting that occurred in the North Atlantic from the ship marala on August 4th 1950 shockingly this case is listed by Bluebook as unidentified and May in fact be my favorite case I will discuss today at 10 p.m. EDT the ship Master Chief mate and third mate of the MV marala saw an unidentified elliptical object approach their vessel from the southwest heading Northeast passing within 1,000 ft of the ship the object hovered no more than 100 ft above sea level with speeds ranging from 25 to 500 mph this object was described as ovular cylindrically shaped and elliptical like half an egg cut lengthwise the object's appearance varied in testimony from shiny aluminum to metallic white all three Witnesses describ the object as having a rotary and wobbling motion as it passed closely over the ocean this event lasted roughly a minute we can also hop on board the SS city of alako heading from Yokohama to La just north of the Hawaiian Islands on November 7th 1959 three Witnesses on board the craft observed a bright object streaking across the water from 4 mil north of the ship The Light emitted three flashes before submerging under the surface and remember those three flashes as they'll come up later the alako changed its course to investigate but nothing was discovered Blue Book labeled this case as a meteor but while such a prosaic explanation might be possible the idea of a meteor taking a low persuit angle and streaking across the water for an extended time period warrants more investigation and if that case is not anomalous enough for you let's investigate near the vicinity of Ascension Island in the Atlantic on the 25th of June 1960 at 2334 local time an operation range vessel co-named whiskey was retrieving the data cassette from a missile test labeled 1802 the small boat was launched to recover the floating cassette illuminated by strobes and monitored from the whiskey and aircraft above as the smaller boat got within 3 to 500 yard of the strobe the crew observed a steady white or yellowish light appear 100 yd from the cassette from under the surface and roughly 25° from their boat this light appeared to be on or very close to the surface and no waves appeared to break over the light the event lasted for 10 seconds and was spotted by the RCA photographer test Observer divers of the recovery crew as well as the pilot and co-pilot of the recovery plane Blue Book claimed this sighting was a flare however it was established none of the planes or vessels released a flare over this site and this story reminds me very closely of the encounter I relayed from Lou alzando in my last video where a diving team sent to retrieve missile data observed a massive Uso emerg from the depths and intercept the missile and speaking of rushed Blue Book conclusions we can look at the SS Morgantown Victory on the 11th of January 1966 near 1,000 Mi southeast of Tokyo the third mate helmsmen and bow Lookout observed a cigar-shaped object approached their ship the cigar object glowed with an orange yellow color with a bright glow on its front and a body with a doar glow the body had two lights on top and the entire craft was estimated to be 200 to 250 ft long and 35 to 40 ft in length the object neared the starboard side of the ship from The Horizon and then turned 180° to avoid going over the vessel it approached the ship within 1 mile at an elevation of far less than 400 ft after hovering for 30 seconds the object crossed in front of the ship and once again changed directions this incident occurred for 3 minutes until the object entered the sea the ship Master believed a plane had crashed and ordered the ship to conduct a search Blue Book identified this case as the cosmos 33 satellite Decay however this explanation does not account for the object hovering and speed and directional changes if you would like to read more on ship-based UAP sightings I highly recommend this PDF on Maritime UFO and Uso Research In Blue Book this statr report highlights some exceptional data such as the split between Blue Book sightings between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans of the 258 ship visual cases 104 occurred in the Atlantic and 155 in the Pacific this data highlights while there is an increase in Pacific sightings and possibly a Hotpot UFO and Uso sightings are not an isolated incident on water historically the Soviet has kept a tight lid on UAP reports in fact Russian UFO stigma has been as oppressive if not more than our own here in the United States one day I would like to cover the USSR UFO stigma and files at length but that is not the topic of our video today because fortunately the former Soviet Union has a trove of Uso reports that are indeed worth investigating I will primarily be pulling from the case log of Russia's Uso Secrets by Paul Stonehill and Philip manle however I will only be discussing cases that I find especially worthy of note and can track down additional reporting on many of these cases are just stories and we don't have direct access to Soviet Declassified files like we do with blue book so I will be doing my best to vet these cases let's dive into a handful of the most interesting on October 7th 1977 the Soviet submarine repair ship vulga was piloting the barren sea its radar detected an unknown object approaching at a distance of roughly 60 Mi the vulas captain tanton approached the bridge to see nine bright discs moving in from the Northeast the discs arrived and circled The Vessel for a span of 18 minutes during the encounter ship commlinks malfunctioned similar to the major Jafari in the 1976 tyon UFO incident after the discs depart the ship Cals and operations return to normal raising concern in the Soviet navy Fleet Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich smirnov no not the liquor issued a directive on mandatory reporting of UFO sightings by Soviet hydrographic scientific research and reconnaissance ships similar to janap 146c and opap directive 3820 the directive was authorized by naval officer and ethologist Vladimir G aaza and signed by Naval Deputy Chief of Staff P noitv this case was not only discussed in Russia's Uso Secrets but also in jacqu Val's book UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union a cosmic samis do on pages 29 to 30 the link to the book free of course will be in the video description so check that out for yourself Kamchatka Peninsula is a fascinating region of Russia the almost 500 square kilometer area separates the Sea of akat from the Pacific Ocean according to Russia's Uso secrets and an article written by Soviet scientist Valentin salom shikov on a bright day in August of 1970 we follow a group of a hydrologists conducting research within a motorboat on Kim chatka Lake suddenly around a kilometer away from the boat a massive Dome of water shot out of the lake in which rose a grayc colored oval object estimated to be 40 to 60 m in length the object Rose to an altitude of nearly 100 m and hovered motionlessly as it did the motorboat engine stalled horrified the team gazed at the object until it accelerated away rapidly restoring functions to their engine what fascinates me about this case is the disruption to the boat engine something we see Kevin kth discuss at the soul foundation and an aspect of many UFO encounters from vehicles in the same year of our Soviet submarine case of 77 is one of the strangest encounters I have heard this information is relayed from the manuscripts and books of Felix ziggle one of Russia's most well-respected ethologists on June 1577 the Soviet ship nooget navigated the Gulf of Gil Ecuador a radiogram sent by the ship relay at night straight ahead of the vehicle a white luminescent sphere Rose from the water it flew around the ship hovered 20 M over the vessel flew higher zigzagged and Dove back into the water and with the Russians my friends this is just the tip of the iceberg I'd like to leave you with this clip from this Russian documentary on Usos from 2006 six where we see a Russian submarine Captain discuss the phenomenon I highly recommend checking out this whole documentary and of course the link will be in the video description Music Music but one country that has an abundance of Declassified UFO Uso government documentation is Australia the Australian UFO files consist of a multitude of reports papers and files on anomalous sightings in fact the Royal Australian Air Force's first official unknown reported uas unusual aerial sighting occurred on January 23rd 1964 and describes quote scene at Sea by crew of a vessel Northeast point of Groot Island Western Australia large lights in water made Compass go Haywire shadow in center of Lights rotated clockwise causing lights to pulsate end quote the tampering of instrumentation is something we see again and again pop up in UFO Uso encounters and certainly not missed by Australia our report was drafted on magnetic disturbance and local Compass activity from the sighting around this time in the ' 50s and 60s the Australian authorities began to take Uso and UFO sightings seriously see these newspaper clippings of Civilian UAP encounters near water clipped and included alongside government and Military encounters such as this 1963 clipping about a fisherman observing a light shoot up from the water hover and disappear Australian intelligence agencies actually track report report s of Australian encounters very similar to both the fisherman encounter and our 1977 Soviet encounter this 1967 incident details a sighting in which both staff from the Department of works and local Aussies observed lights pop up from out of the sea rise to a great height curve and return to the oceans many of these sightings were accompanied by three distinct flashes once returned to Sea remember back to our SS city of alako case Project Blue Book it is worthy to note that lieutenant commander of Australian intelligence AF Perry hypothesized these could possibly be experiments conducted by several oil search teams however this does not seem consistent as this sort of sighting has been seen by Australia the Soviets and Americans outside of the Australian government the citizens of the land on under have some fascinating stories of Usos especially regarding objects shooting out of the sea and Performing intelligent ly controlled Maneuvers in 1947 Port Augusta South Australia Frederick Walter and Emma Flav observed five gray oblong objects rise from the sea and move from Northwest to Southeast this sighting was also observed by two railroad workers who described five white or light pink egg-shaped objects rise from the sea but with the added detail of quivering similar to our MV marcala case mentioned earlier in the video gar shapes have been seen in our skies and oceans throughout world and Australian history around the time the Australian government began taking UAP seriously we can find a case that appeared in the July to August issue of flying saucer review 1966 to 67 Private Pilot C Adams and television cameraman Mr Les hendy reported seeing four or five mysterious objects 3 m east of Frasier Island approaching the objects from the sky there appeared to be two dark colored cigars narrow and up to 100 ft long accompanied by three smaller objects the two noticed the object standing still in the water and started to submerge as the aircraft approached within 2 miles initially thought to be whales or submarines the men in independent sightings from nearby CRA Hotel observed that the objects did not disturb the surface when submerging almost like they did not interact with the water this interaction with fluid is extremely similar to to the hmnzs Southland case can describes at the soul Foundation which oddly enough occurred near New Zealand we all know of the famous alleged UFO encounter by Explorer Christopher Columbus where he and his crew saw what they described as a wax candle rising and falling in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night but I don't have enough evidence or resources to talk about this case what I do want to talk about are two cases that occurred around the turn of the 20th century that are documented by the US hydrographic Bureau on November 12th 1887 Captain RF Moore of the English steamer the SS Siberian encountered a Uso 10 nautical miles off Cape race New Foundland the captain observed an enormous Fireball rise from the sea to 50 ft moving towards the craft then speed away into the sky at the time the hydrographic bureau in Washington named it quote one of the most most rare and most difficult to explain electrical phenomena but as far as I know I have not seen any cases of ball lightning exiting the sea and in Africa the Gulf of Guinea 1902 four men aboard the ship the fort Salsbury witnessed an imense object sinking into the ocean the cigar-shaped object measured nearly 200 M long and 300 M wide as the object passed under the ship the men on the vessel described two orange lights lit at the front and two blue green lights shining at the other end this case in my opinion could represent a submarine however seeing as popular submarines at this time such as the early German ubo measured solely 41 M long I still find this case anomalous and now we get to an anomalous and perplexing Uso called The Maritime light wheel throughout the late 19th and early 20th century there was a hot spot of peculiar phenomen observed by Sailors all over the Eastern Hemisphere and it's worthy to note this just wasn't an isolated incident in fact the maritime light wheeel is reported on in that Russian Uso documentary I mentioned Music Music earlier Music Music for Music for Music Music for for Music Music as described in the documentary in many cases the maritime light wheeel is described as a wheel surrounded by spokes of brilliant white light that can appear below the water surface or hovering in the air serving as a possibly transm medium craft I must note also as they talked about in the video some attribute these Uso Wheels to a rare interaction between bioluminescent algae and pressure waves in an otherwise calm water however I do not think this explanation has any sort of consensus or full acceptance but let's review the earliest sightings of these wheels and mind you there are many many many more sightings of the maritime light wheeel that have been observed but I just want to recount a few of the earliest on March 27th 1873 the ship adhy voyaged from Lebon to Singapore Captain lebman noticed a peculiar blinding milky white light appear beneath the waves about two ship lengths from The Vessel emitting waves of light described as flakes of snow when driven over the rocks by a strong wind endot the light followed the ship traveling at four to 5 knots for roughly half an hour before slowly disappearing lebman stated he had not seen anything like this in his 26 years of Maritime life we can find the description of this case in the National Library of Australia mentioned in an 1873 news article in The Argus an almost Uso flap was experienced in the Persian Gul from 1879 to 1901 an initial Uso sighting was reported to the admiralty by Captain Evans a hydrographer for the British Navy on May 15th 1879 je Pringle of the HMS vulture reported quote luminous waves or pulsations in the water moving at great speed end quote passing under the vulture it was at this time Pringle noticed two objects to the east and west what appeared to be quote revolving Wheels with a center on that bearing and whose spokes were alum minated end quot worthy to note these two wheels were rotating in equal and opposite directions and the spokes were about 25 ft in length it is unclear if these wheels were submerged into the water as the language of this 19th century English gets a little tricky here the second instance in the Persian Gulf occurred in May of 1880 from the British India Company steamer Patna Captain a Mr remaining third officer and others observe two enormous luminous Wheels appear on each side of the ship near 11:30 p.m. the wheels were quote whirling around the spokes of which seemed to brush along the ship the spokes would be 200 to 300 yd long and resembled the Birch rods of the Dame school each wheel contained about 16 Spokes and although the wheels must have been some 5 to 600 yard in diameter the spokes could be distinctly seen all the way around end quote the men described the appearance of the spokes could almost be represented by standing in a boat and flashing ing a bull's eyes Lantern horizontally along the surface of the water round and round the final Persian encounter with this Uso was observed on April 4th 1901 where captain hosan of the steamship Kila encountered quote vast shafts of light suddenly appeared shaft followed shaft upon the surface of the sea but it was only a faint light and in about 15 minutes died out having appeared suddenly and having died out gradually these shafts revolved at a velocity of about 60 mph from earlier the year of 1880 I just mentioned this wheel-like object was possibly seen off the Malibar coast of India on January 5th by commander of the SS shahian Ari Harris describes a clear night over calm Waters stars shining bright and no moon present at roughly 10 p.m. Harris and the shift's third officer noticed a milky white circle in the sky resembling quote the nebula sometimes seen in the heavens approaching the object the sailors stopped the vessel to try and Gain understanding of this anomalous object and its waves of light the last old example here I will cover occurred on the 10th of June 1909 and was actually featured in Scientific American issue 10651 which relays the nautical meteorological annual published by the Danish meteorological Institute a report on a quote singular phenomena while sailing through the streets of Mala Captain Gabe of the SS bintang observed a vast revolving wheel of light under the water quote long arms issuing from a center around which the whole system appeared to rotate end quote surfacing this wheel was so vast only half of it could be seen at a time with the center lane near The Horizon the wheel was able to move forward and vary in speed and rotation disappearing when the center was right under the vessel and like our last 1880 case these Maritime light wheels aren't just seen below the water in the same Danish meteorological Institute there reports another instance in 1910 where Captain Brier of the Dutch steamship Valen chin was sailing in the South China Sea here the captain first and second mate and the first engineer all observed an object hovering above the water quote it looked like a horizontal wheel rapidly turning my friends thank you so much for watching today as we took a deeper dive into Usos throughout history please excuse the rash guard I'm wearing I just got home from training but f if you're watching I'm always open for a sponsor but anyways guys I got such a great reaction to my first video on Uso I had to make a followup and show that it doesn't matter what time period we're in it doesn't matter what country we're in there are stories of unexplained things in the water as far as the maritime light wheel goes I'm pretty torn on that whether that is a craft object or possibly some sort of more anomalous natural phenomena I'll include in the video description a kind of not really debunk but a paper kind of possibly exploring explanations for this phenomena but still the fact these are seen in the Persian golf in Russia uh all around the world is fascinating to me but even more fascinating to me are Australian blue book and Soviet files all depicting very similar experiences Tic Tac shaped craft SL cigars Fireballs exiting the water Fireballs exiting the water that some that are almost curious about the ship egg shapes leaving the water that frightens the Soviet hydrologists but we see multiple cases of these sort of light balls leaving the water dancing around and shooting off into the sky or back into the water as far as the Tic Tacs go we often see these things hovering slightly above water in multiple cases saying they're quivering or gyrating or slowly submerging under the water but not affecting the water's surface similar to the uh case Kevin can talks about so I think we can find a lot of answers to the UFO phenomena by looking in our oceans there's so many more cases so many wanted to talk about but couldn't really find rep reputable sources for such as some uh Chilean incidents that supposedly in the military a fleet of of saucers approached a a craft but until then we'll just keep digging in case files it's a shame that uh there's not a lot of information at Blue Book we can thank opnav 3820 and janap 146c for that but you know we'll work with what we're given if one day I can get in contact with George nap and see if any of those UFO files he smuggled out of Russia pertain to Uso I would very much like to do that but where I stand now Uso is one of the most fascinating aspects of the phenomenon the fact these craft can operate in air or under sea trans medium objects Without Really changing their flight characteristics is insane to me so if you guys haven't yet watched watch that Russian documentary it's actually really darn good I I highly suggest watching it uh it does a great job exploring kind of the Soviet side of Usos and of course you get listen to talk someone talk in a Russian accent for 45 minutes so that's great as always guys thank you so much for watching uh I've seen a lot of added support with the channel lately with the Kingman video and getting retweeted by Ross so that's been great I I love all of you guys thanks so much for being here remember to like and retweet leave a comment on the video let me know what you think let me know what k crashes whatever you want me to tackle next that has to do with the phenomenon of course nothing uh nothing random so just let me know and again thanks for being here guys I'll catch you on the next video