Eltanin Antenna
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Eltanin Antenna is the name popularly given to an unusual object photographed on the sea floor by the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin in 1964.
Due to its regular antenna-like structure and upright position on the seafloor at a depth of 13,500 feet (4115 metres), some have asserted that it is advanced technology left from a forgotten high-tech civilization, was brought to earth by aliens, or brought from the future by our descendants. However, many identify it as an example of the sponge Cladorhiza concrescens first identified in a dredged-up sample by Alexander Agassiz in 1888.
[edit] References
- Brookesmith, Peter (2004). "The Eltanin Enigma". Fortean Times issue 183. Retrieved April 8, 2005.
- Hatch, Larry (2005). "The Eltanin Antenna Identified!". Retrieved April 8, 2005.
- "The Empty Quarter of the Sea". Map showing where the Eltanin photograph was taken. Retrieved April 8, 2005.
