Unidentified Submerged Objects: the other side of the mystery

We very commonly talk about the UFO phenomenon (Unidentified Flying Objects -UFO), but there is also the USO phenomenon (Unidentified Submerged Objects).

Stories of unexpected encounters with the unknown at sea come from the time when sailors talked about sea monsters, the Kraken, etc. But there is much more beneath the waters than modern sailors found on their voyages.

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One of the best-known incidents of the USO phenomenon is the one recounted by a US Navy fighter pilot during a House of Representatives hearing in 2023. In 2004, flying over the Pacific, he saw something emerge from the waters.

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According to CBS, from an interview with pilot David Fravor on the program '60 Minutes', things went like this: "I said, 'Dude, do you, do you see that thing down there?' And we saw this little white Tic Tac-looking object. And it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area."

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It was, according to the testimony given by pilot David Fravor in the House of Representatives, an object the size of an F18.

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Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet of the US Navy wrote of this incident revealing the existence of unidentified underwater objects: "The whitewater may have indicated a larger UAP below or that the observed UAP had emerged from the sea, suggesting an unidentified submersible object (USO)."

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet also mentions the event of the naval ship USS Omaha, whose crew saw in 2019, off the coast of California, an unidentified object submerging into the waters.

Also in the waters of Puerto Rico, as reported by NBC, an incident occurred perhaps related to the USO phenomenon. A customs patrol captured on video an image that could correspond to a spherical object leaving and entering the water.

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet asks US authorities to increase research into the USO phenomenon. And not only thinking about possible space visitors.

Air monitoring is usually exhaustive. But what about the possibility that nations with interests contrary to the United States are infiltrating ships into North American waters to carry out espionage work? Is there the same surveillance in the depths of the ocean?

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The mystery of the ocean depths has always stimulated the human imagination, who fantasized about civilizations hidden under the waters.

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Human beings need magic and enigmas, and the ocean, so immense, is one of them. And, perhaps, under its waters there are more surprises than we think.

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