This just in, for some reason: One morning over the summer, a bunch of children and teenage instructors at a sailing camp near Stockholm looked up and saw a giant unidentified submarine surface in the waters not far from where they were practicing their tacks, then disappear about 20 minutes later.



This was on June 28, 2018, off the Boson peninsula on Lidingö island. Inexplicably, it has only been publicly reported just now. According to The Local , the adolescent witnesses observed large air bubbles, then a huge black object rose from the depths, heading east.

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter posted video footage on Twitter.

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DN granskar: Tre ögonvittnen berättar om okänd farkost vid Lidingö • “Jag såg en stor ubåt.”https://t.co/2JtN6Lmavg pic.twitter.com/53FNi9koNS — Dagens Nyheter (@dagensnyheter) October 25, 2018

Dagens Nyheter established that there were no Swedish or foreign submarines operating in the area at the time of the sighting.

The U.K.-based Guardian newspaper, reporting on the incident, says that armed forces investigators were sent to interview the eyewitnesses a week later. A Swedish Armed forces spokesperson said, “The military does not share Dagens Nyheter’s view that this was a foreign submarine,” but refused to say whether the Swedish military had identified the submarine.

Lidingö is deep inside the Stockholm archipelago , very close to the Swedish capital. It’s as if a submarine had been spotted off the coast of Seattle, inside Puget Sound.

The Swedish Navy corvette Visby in 2014 participating in the search for a foreign submarine. Anders Wiklund Getty Images

The incident is only the latest in a series of unidentified submarine sightings in Sweden that go back nearly a century.

The country sits on the busy Baltic Sea and is within sailing distance of a number of countries with submarines, including Germany and Russia. Sightings of unknown foreign submarines date to the 1930s. In 1981, in the famous “Whiskey on the Rocks” incident, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground off Karlskrona, a major Swedish Navy base. Unidentified sightings averaged around 40 a year during the 1980s. The Soviet sub was in the area to observe Swedish naval maneuvers. In 2014, Swedish naval forces investigated multiple reports of foreign submarine activity , and Stockholm confirmed that an unidentified foreign submarine had in fact infiltrated—and left—its waters.

To whom did the submarine at the sailing camp belong? Russia, with naval bases just across the Baltic and a history of sneaking its submarines around Sweden, is the obvious suspect. Submarines that fit the profile are the Russian Navy’s two Project 1851 Paltus- class midget submarines. The nuclear-powered subs are just 180 feet long, displace 720 tons, and have a top speed of six knots. The slow speed would explain why the youngsters were able to watch it for 20 minutes.

Sweden has grown increasingly close to NATO in recent years, and the submarine could have been a European or even American boat. Still, Dagens Nyheter attests it was not a foreign boat, and most NATO countries have plenty of other coastline to train in, where they wouldn’t scare Swedish youths. So, a mystery that, if history holds, won’t be the last of its kind.



Source: The Local, Guardian

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