"Jag har en dålig känsla om detta !"
Posted on 10/19/2014 9:44:54 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
STOCKHOLM – The Swedish military has presented photographic evidence of a mysterious “foreign vessel” off the coast of Stockholm but rejected reports it was on the “hunt” for a damaged submarine.
Ever since the armed forces received a tip-off about a “man-made object” off the coast of Stockholm on Friday, 200 men, several stealth ships, minesweepers and helicopters have been searching the sea around islands about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the Swedish capital.
“This is not ours, it’s a foreign vessel,” Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad told reporters, pointing to a grainy photo taken on Sunday morning by a “source” — the third such sighting since Friday.
“He saw something that was on the surface and after he took the picture it disappeared again.”
Grenstad said it was not possible to determine the nationality of the vessel due to the poor quality of the photo, which shows a far-off dark object jutting out of the sea surrounded by surf. But he said the sightings followed a pattern built up over several years.
He rejected media speculation that the armed forces were “submarine hunting” and stressed that the mobilization — one of the biggest, barring purely training exercises, since the Cold War — was an intelligence operation.
“This is not a submarine hunt, using weapons to combat an opponent. It’s about collecting intelligence to establish that there is foreign underwater activity,” said Grenstad, adding that an area east of the Swedish capital appeared “to be of interest to a foreign power.”
“Later there can be a situation where it becomes a submarine hunt. We’re not there now.”
He dismissed a report from the respected daily Svenska Dagbladet on Saturday suggesting that a Russian emergency transmission had been intercepted, indicating that a Russian U-boat was in trouble in the area.
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Its a small whale wiggling its tail in the air.
Columbian Cartel drug smugglers
Dagbladet, they got away again.
“Y’know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain’t never seen no phantom Russian submarine.”
"Jag har en dålig känsla om detta !"
Does the vegetation in Puget Sound reach all the way to the salt water’s edge or is there a “beach”? The pic did not show a beach and therefore I thought it was a fresh water body or lake.
The website, the Inquisitor I believe says Russian Jets were intercepted from the area by NATO. I haven’t seen that anywhere else though so I don’t know if that is believable.
Apparently some Russian jets were intercepted over the Baltic Republics: http://news.yahoo.com/nato-intercepts-russian-jets-over-baltic-sea-151513381.html
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