wired | Great catch by Phil Ewing at Navy Times' Scoop Deck blog: the Russian navy has just declassified its records of Cold War UFO sightings. Turns out “50 percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen [percent] more -- with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” one Russian officer explained.
"On
several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects
moving at incredible speed," a sub commander recalled. "Calculations
showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a
challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It
was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one
explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in
development."
Insert jab about superior U.S. Navy submarine technology, here.
All
joking aside, in one alleged incident in 1982, three navy diver
trainees reportedly died pursuing what survivors described as "a group
of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits" in Baikal, the world's
deepest lake.
