Han Solo has got to find a better parking spot for the Millenium Falcon. Swedish researchers have discovered an unidentified object that looks strangely like the ship on the floor of the Baltic Sea.
While searching through ship wreckage for cases of rare champagne, the Ocean Explorer team, led by researcher Peter Lindberg, stumbled across a large, round object, 300 feet beneath the ocean. Details are scant; budget limitations prevented Lindberg and his team from taking a closer look at the orb.
"You see a lot of weird stuff in the job, but during my 18 years a s a professional I have never seen anything like this," Lindberg said. "The shape is completely round."
Ocean Explorer released blurry images that show that the circle is about 60 feet in diameter, surrounded by marks that, as CNET notes, "almost look like a skidded landing area." There has been rampant speculation that it could be a UFO. It might be more alluring to postulate that the object came from space, but there is more than likely an explanation that is based more on logic and less on science fiction or cult film lore.
It could be the wreckage from a battleship, a ring from an underwater volcano, or a flooded archeological site, but the images are muddled enough to leave room for imagination.
Lindberg has refrained from hypothesizing on what the object could be, perhaps allowing the tale to grow.
"It's up to the rest of the world to decide what it is," he said of the item he theorizes "might be a new Stonehenge."
But the answers may come eventually. People are so intrigued by the mystery that donations have poured in, and the Ocean Explorer has received enough money to finance a voyage to the depths of the Baltic Sea to investigate, CNET says.
Meanwhile, George Lucas has yet to offer his two cents.
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