1963 year. The US Naval Force, led by the aircraft carrier Wasp, is conducting another exercise, this time in the southern corner of the infamous Bermuda Triangle, near the island of Puerto Rico. The task is usual - the search and pursuit of submarines of the imaginary enemy.
From the very beginning of the maneuver, the hydroacoustics spotted an unusual underwater target. And then a strange thing was discovered: it was impossible to reach the submarine. She walked at a speed of 150 knots - almost 300 kilometers per hour. And this is under water, where the best modern submarines give no more than one third of this speed.
But the fantastic speed was not limited here. A strange submarine in a matter of minutes managed to dive 6 kilometers and again rise almost to the surface. Only special devices can sink so deeply, but they take hours, not minutes, to descend and ascend.
Maybe these are some large animals that happened to be next to high-speed submarines? Hardly. Even a whale cannot dive to such depths in minutes, much less seconds.
As if realizing its superiority, the mysterious object did not even try to hide and circled around the warships for four days. The maneuverability of the underwater ghost was fantastic, there was practically no inertia. They did not dare to bomb it.
But such an attempt was made three years earlier by the sailors of Argentina. They spotted huge and unusual submarines in their territorial waters. One was lying on the ground, the other was making circles around her. Anti-submarine ships dropped tons of depth charges on the border violators. However, they achieved only one thing. Submarines with huge cuttings surfaced and began to leave with incredible speed.
Artillery fire was opened. The submarines went under water. What they saw on the sonar screens stunned the hydroacoustics. First, the number of submarines doubled, and then there were six. The pursuit gave nothing! The mysterious flotilla, having developed incredible speed, disappeared into the depths of the Atlantic.
The year is 1964. Objects similar to those just described are found in the Mediterranean Sea, and a year later - off the coast of Australia, as well as New Zealand. They were ellipses, similar to metal structures, 30 meters long and 15 meters wide. They have been observed more than once by local fishermen at a shallow depth among the underwater rocks. It was simply impossible for ordinary submarines to get there. Another thing was striking - these objects had neither screws nor hatches.
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Mysterious submarines have been seen in various places. The eyewitnesses were amazed that during their movement there were no whirlpools or accompanying streams.
All this could not but worry the military. Some began to see a connection between them and the death of combat submarines. So, in four months of 1968, four submarines died in the world under mysterious circumstances.
In January 1968, the Israeli Dakar and the French Minerva were in the Mediterranean Sea, in March the Soviet K-129 was in the Pacific Ocean, in May the pride of the American submarine fleet, the Scorpion nuclear-powered ship, disappeared without a trace. And what is characteristic - in three cases, mysterious moving objects were recorded near the submarines.
There was something else. During a naval exercise in the Indonesian region, a US submarine found an unknown submarine next to it. An American submarine commander's mistake led to a collision. There was a violent explosion. Both ships sank. The search team was released from the escort ship. We managed to find and deliver something that looked like a piece of sheathing upstairs.
And here something incomprehensible happened. Acoustics reported that at least 15 unknown submarines appeared in the disaster area. They blocked the place of death of submarines, not only for the rest of the ships, but for all types of locators, creating something like an impenetrable dome.
A few hours later, the signals from the mysterious objects disappeared, and nothing was found at the crash site, not even the remnants of the crashed American submarine.
Analysis of the raised fragments showed that the composition of their metal is not known to scientists, and some of its elements are not found on Earth at all. Any leaks of this information by the Pentagon and the US Congress were nipped in the bud.
1960s. The Cold War is in full swing. The confrontation between the USA and the USSR in the North Atlantic is becoming almost open. In the strictest secrecy, the NATO command is preparing a special operation in the North Atlantic. The task is set rigidly: to stop the penetration of Soviet submarines and aircraft into the territorial waters and airspace of NATO countries.
In the end, it came down to direct hostilities. In the fall of 1972, the Norwegian Naval Forces, together with NATO ships, bombed their tourist pearl - the 200-kilometer Sognefjord. Four dozen ships and aircraft are trying to "squeeze" underwater intruders to the surface.
At times, mysterious objects emerge on their own, and observers have more than once recorded a long black body appearing on the surface.
Soon things take a different turn. Yellow and green unidentified flying objects suddenly appear over the mountains of Scandinavia, and helicopters - black and unmarked - were sometimes seen over the fiords. At the highest speeds, they perform unthinkable maneuvers.
All this is watched with great tension not only by the military, but also by hundreds of local residents. Electronic equipment on anti-submarine ships is out of order. As a result, unknown underwater objects slip out of the bays unnoticed. After this inglorious undertaking, the Norwegian authorities announced that they were probably not submarines.
In the 1980s, reports in Scandinavian newspapers were reminiscent of war reports. In the four months of 1986, unknown submarines invaded Swedish territorial waters 15 times.
Admiral of the Fleet Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin recalls, since 1981 - Chief of the Main Staff of the Navy, in 1985-1992 - Commander-in-Chief of the Navy:
“They did the following. They find an unknown submarine in the bay, block this bay with nets, lay mines, even bomb or fire rockets.
The planted mines were blown up by someone, the rockets did not give any result. Their very latest torpedo was also launched to destroy an underwater target. The torpedo missed and sank. An entire operation was organized to find and return this top-secret torpedo.
A very serious international conflict was brewing. The result of this excitement was the presentation to the public of recordings of some sounds similar to the noises of a submarine. Then there was an action to prove that these noises had nothing to do with submarines.
America, like Argentina, eventually realized that Russia had nothing to do with the underwater incidents described above, and even officially announced this. The fact is that her intelligence more than once reported on seemingly completely impossible things.
For example, that these objects combined the qualities of an aircraft and a submarine. More than once they flew out from under the water literally under the noses of anti-submarine cruisers and flew into the sky at supersonic speed.
However, the Western press continues to play the Soviet card, stubbornly repeating about the underwater "hand of Moscow".
In 1981, the submarine of the Baltic Fleet S-137, due to a breakdown of the radio direction finder, went off course and ran aground off the coast of Sweden. The authorities and the press said that this submarine could not accidentally come there. And after that we proved that she came there by chance.
After this incident, Soviet submarines were forbidden to approach foreign territorial waters closer than 50 kilometers. They strictly followed the order. And the underwater ghosts continued to annoy the Scandinavians.
They believe that this Russia - cold, unshaven, hairy, wants to swallow such a well-groomed, well-fed, little Sweden. The press publishes pictures of the strange footprints found at the bottom off the coast of Sweden. They are believed to be abandoned by some ultra-small Soviet tank submarines that run on tracks.
And in the end they got me, these journalists, with their assertions that we were scurrying around and running along the bottom and even penetrating some highways with a diameter of about one and a half meters, leading to some specific toilet bowl.
All attempts by Soviet sailors to prove their innocence in what was happening ran into a wall of misunderstanding and suspicion. The press continued its line: these are Russians, and no one else. And somehow I gathered journalists, answer their questions, and at the end I say:
“Here I am, as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, I appeal to you and through you to your governments, so that you catch our submarine, destroy it there, and I will thank you for doing this and showing us some then the remains of our submarine, and I will express my gratitude to you for destroying us."
After the collapse of the USSR, Sweden expressed confidence that the new Soviet leaders would remove the secrecy label from the relevant files. However, no information about any such operations by Soviet submarines was found in the dossier. Russia has once again stated that it has no interests in the territorial waters of the Scandinavian countries. At the same time, Boris Yeltsin hinted that someone else was to blame. But who?
In 1995, the Swedish parliament created a special commission with the task of dealing with underwater phantoms. And then it turned out that the statistics on this case are extensive - about 2000 cases have been documented!
According to the Swedes, the strangeness of the manifestation and the highest maneuverability of unknown objects exclude their belonging to the ordinary submarine fleet, and the reasons must be sought in a different origin of these objects.
“With the current development of technology, no one has this and cannot have it today. But this does not mean that this cannot be in principle."
Vladimir Azhazha, from the book "Underwater UFOs"
PS. Western hysteria with Russia's elusive and invisible submarines echoed in 2014 and 2015. On October 19, 2014, Swedish Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad announced "foreign submarine activity" in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, photographs of the alleged submarine (on the surface) near the fjords of Sweden appeared in the press.
Although the photograph was not convincing to many, the hunt for the ghost sub in Sweden continued for a week. The country's authorities have carried out the largest deployment of military personnel since the Cold War to find out who and what is behind the alleged foreign submarine activity in the Stockholm archipelago. The Swedish military has been diligently searching for a whole week, and the media, meanwhile, have staged a real hysteria around the fact that an alleged Russian submarine is hiding in Swedish territorial waters.
On October 24, 2014, the search for a foreign submarine in Swedish waters was completed. The operation cost Stockholm $ 3 million, but has not yielded results.
In January 2015, the British media covered a search operation off the coast of Scotland for a Russian submarine allegedly tracking a Vanguard-class nuclear missile carrier. Then the British Department of Defense turned to American colleagues for help. Found nothing.
In November 2015, the same elusive Russian submarine was again searched off the coast of Scotland. Britain even asked for help from the French and Canadian Air Force in finding the Russian submarine. The result was again zero.
