[Flick Lives]

a UFO that went ‘transmedium’ and disappeared underwater. Carlson pointed out how the craft would then be traveling at “hundreds of knots” (100 knots is 115 mph)

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CAPTAIN
What the hell is it?

EXEC
I’ll tell you what it’s not, it’s not one of
ours.

BARNES
Sir! Contact changing heading to two-one-four,
diving. Speed eighty knots! Eighty knots!

EXEC
Eighty knots...

BARNES
Still diving, depth nine hundred feet. Port
clearance to cliff wall, one hundred fifty feet.

FRANK
(simultaneously)
Still diving, depth nine hundred feet. Port
clearance to cliff wall, one hundred fifty feet.

Tension builds in the attack room as the Montana surges to intercept the
intruder. The exec tensely watches the vector-graphic readout for the side-
scan sonar array. The sub is running uncomfortably close to the cliff walls.

EXEC
(low, to Captain)
It’s getting tight in here.

CAPTAIN
We can still give him a haircut. Helm, come
right to oh six niner, down five degrees.

HELMSMAN
Coming right to oh six niner, sir. Down five
degrees.

NAVIGATOR
Port side clearance one hundred twenty feet
narrowing to seventy-five. Sir, we have a
proximity warning light.

EXEC
That’s too damn close! We’ve gotta back off.

BARNES
Range to contact, two hundred. Contact junked to
bearing two six oh and accelerated to... one
hundred thirty knots, sir!

EXEC
(really freaked now)
Nothing goes one thirty!

Suddenly the control room lights dim almost to blackness.

(The Abyss)

[GOPJ]

“Relevant to this video, an area we will learn more about is the interaction between US Navy submarines – nuclear ballistic submarines and attack submarines – picking up sonar contact of things moving at hundreds of knots under the water. There is an undersea dimension to this, on top of what the pilots are seeing above water.”

Nuclear subs checking in on the issue? That makes it more interesting.,,,