Is The "Millenium Falcon" Sitting At The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea?

Credit: ABC News

An object that looks eerily similar to the Millenium Falcon from "Star Wars" has been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

By: Randy Key | WJBF-TV
Published: February 06, 2012

UNDATED --

They know they're onto something big. If only they knew what that something was.

A group of treasure hunters based in Stockholm, Sweden has found a strange disc-shaped object on the floor of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland, using sonar.

From above, it looks a bit like the Millennium Falcon of "Star Wars" fame. It's large...197 feet in diameter...and it's in about 275 feet of water. A 1,600 foot churned up track on the sea floor leads to the object.

"We need to know what we've found," said Peter Lindberg of Ocean Explorer, the group that made the sonar sweep while looking for more conventional shipwrecks. "Media has been speculating about everything from UFOs to Russian spaceships."

What are the most realistic possibilities? "Let us put it like this: we have tried a lot of theories," Lindberg wrote in an email to ABC News. "The list is getting shorter and shorter with options, so for now we do not really know. We do not have anything that speaks more for one option or the other."

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