Social media users have been enthralled by a so-called ‘Russian spy whale’ that was recently spotted in Norwegian waters. Agent Belugov, your cover is blown!

The beluga whale first approached a fishing boat off the coast of Norway’s Ingoya Island, wearing a harness with a GoPro camera attached. The strange discovery soon prompted speculation that the whale was a trained infiltrator.

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Twitter had a ball with the idea.

You had me at "a Russian spy whale..."https://t.co/7SZ079A57D — Mary Griffin (@Mary_Griffin_) May 2, 2019

Saw that news about Russian whale with gopro and was like "us too" https://t.co/h7sxGZ3DQD — Ahmed Mujović (@mujovic) May 2, 2019

When the whale stuck around, some joked that he was a defector.

Russian spy whale defects ;) https://t.co/bZcDSwemHF — Ken Hanly (@northsunm35) May 2, 2019

Perhaps our aquatic double agent would make for a good pet?

Russian spy whale > all other pets. https://t.co/moR6yyvx40 — Molly “not super smart” Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 2, 2019

Others found the theory to be...interesting.

So this whale is either a trained Russian asset, or it recently escaped from SeaWorld pic.twitter.com/GG8L8wTjps — Joe Adinolfi (@jsadinolfi) May 2, 2019



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