The unidentified flying objects that increasingly permeate our skies have become so well known that fully sixty percent of all people polled confess to the belief that they are real and that they are piloted by extraterrestrial visitors to our planet. There is a less well known, although no less disturbing, phenomena in which these objects have been witnessed as either rising from the depths of the ocean or plunging into it.

These unidentified submersible objects (USO) have been reported as far back as 1067 A.D. This report from the “Lestoire des Englis” written by Geoffrey Gaimer describes such an object.

“In this year people saw a fire that flamed and burned fiercely in the sky. It came near the earth and for a little time brilliantly lit it up. Afterwards, it revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea.”

This phenomena was not confined to the British Isles. Again in 1580 A.D. the Spanish sea Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa described this sighting while passing through the Straits of Magellan off the coast of Chili. Translated, his report reads thus:

“we saw emerge from the sea a round thing, red like fire, like a shield, that rose up on the air or on the wind. It became longer as it went over a mountain and, in the form of a lance high above the mount, its shape became like a half-moon between red and white in colour.”

This phenomena is not consigned to the distant past. In his book, “Behold a Pale Horse”, ex Naval Intelligence Officer William Cooper describes this sighting while serving aboard the submarine USS Tiru out of Pearl Harbor in the late 1960′s.

“I turned, raising my binoculars to my eyes just in time to see a huge disk rise from beneath the ocean, water streaming from the air around it, tumble lazily on its axis, and disappear into the clouds.”

Cooper then asked a fellow officer to survey the area as well.

“Ensign Ball turned, raising his glasses to eye level. I was just lifting the binoculars off my chest when I saw it. The giant saucer shape plunged out of the clouds, tumbled, and, pushing the water before it, opened up a hole in the ocean and disappeared from view.  Ensign Hall stood in shock.”

Time after time witnesses have stated that these craft seem to be as at home in the water as they are in the air above us. This leads to a question of whether the UFO’s are in fact from another planet or are they the vehicles of an advanced culture and race of beings who, for their own reasons, have their residence hidden from the open view of the humans who live on the surface of the Earth?

As technology increases people’s ability to explore the planet, strange and obviously non-natural formations are being located. The “Google Earth” program has led to many unexplained sightings of anomalous formations on and under the oceans of our planet.

Are the pilots of the UFO’s we see in fact extraterrestrial or could they be the descendants of an advanced race that has chosen to live separate from what we know of as terrestrial life? With the evident damage our civilization is bringing to the environment it could well be that these craft are increasing in number of sightings in order to investigate what is happening on the surface and how it may affect the entire planet, not just the surface dwellers.

It is a fact that one should look not only to the sky for evidence of visitation but to the sea as well when investigating the alien crossing.

Written by Wm. Douglas Mefford