Sept. 21, 2025
I Just Heard From My Friend in the Navy
A sonar operator on a nuclear sub just broke protocol. What he told James includes fast-moving underwater craft, impossible acoustic pings, and something bioluminescent in the North Atlantic.
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Calaruga Shark Media.
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This is Paranormal Aliens, Episode eight. I just heard from
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my friend in the Navy.
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You can call me James, and I just got off
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a secure call with my friend, let's call him Simon,
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who's a sonar operator on a nuclear submarine. We've been
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friends since college and he's never once called me about
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anything work related, never complete compartmentalization, total operational security. Until
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last night. Called me at two am using a civilian
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phone from a bar in Norfolk. Said he needed to
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talk to someone outside the Navy, someone who would understand
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what he was telling me, someone who wouldn't think he
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was losing his mind. He's been under water for the
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past six weeks on a routine patrol mission in the
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North Atlantic, routine until three days ago when his sonar
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started picking up signatures that shouldn't exist. First, the whales
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went silent, completely silent. He's been tracking marine life acoustically
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for twelve years and he's never heard the ocean go
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dead quiet like that. No whale songs, no dolphin clicks,
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no biological noise at all, just nothing. Then the reading started.
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At zero three four seven hours, his passive sonar detected
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multiple large objects moving under water at impossible speeds. Not submarines.
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He knows every submarine signature in the NATO database, every
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Russian boat, every Chinese vessel. These were something else, entirely
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cylindrical objects, roughly three hundred feet long, moving it over
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two hundred knots under water. For context, the fastest submarine
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in the world max is out at about forty five
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knots submerged. These things were moving four times faster than
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anything we've ever built. But that wasn't the weird part.
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The weird part was they were completely silent. No propulsion, noise,
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no cavitation, no acoustic signature at all except for the
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water displacement. It's like they were gliding through the ocean
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without any means of propulsion that his equipment could detect.
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And there were dozens of them, moving in perfect formation,
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maintaining precise spacing, following coordinated flight paths, except they were
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under water. His commanding officer was called to the sonar room.
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The XO came down within an hour. They had three
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senior officers crowded around his station, all staring at readings
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that shouldn't be possible. Then came the order he'd never
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heard before in twelve years of service. Classify all sonar
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data from the past four hours, no logs, no records,
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no discussion. But here's what really freaked him out. When
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he went back to review the data the next morning,
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it was gone, not just classified, completely erased, like those
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four hours of sonar readings had never existed, except he remembered,
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and so did the other sonar operators who'd been on duty.
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They all saw the same impossible signatures. So he started
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paying closer attention, started watching patterns his superiors thought he
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couldn't detect. For the next two days, the objects appeared again,
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same time, zero three, four seven hours, same formation patterns,
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same impossible speeds. But now he was ready. He used
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his personal phone, against every regulation in the book, to
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photograph the sonar displays, low resolution, but enough to prove
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what he was seeing. And that's when he noticed something
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that made his blood run cold. The objects weren't just
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moving randomly. They were following his submarine. Every course change,
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every depth adjustment, every tactical maneuver. The objects adjusted their
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formation to maintain the same relative position, like they were
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shadowing his boat, learning its capabilities. On the third night,
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something even stranger happened. His submarine received an acoustic ping,
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not from another submarine, not from any known source, a
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ping that seemed to come from directly below them, from
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depths where nothing should be able to survive. The ping
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was answered by something above them, then something to port,
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then starboard. They were surrounded. His commanding officer immediately ordered
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battle stations full emergency protocols, but then, just as suddenly,
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he rescinded the order, told everyone to stand down, resume
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normal operations, and forget what they'd heard. But my friend
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couldn't forget because he'd recognized something in that acoustic exchange.
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It wasn't random noise or equipment malfunction. It was communication, structured,
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purposeful communication between multiple underwater objects using acoustic protocols he'd
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never heard before. We'll be right back. When I asked
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him why he was telling me this, why he was
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risking his career and possibly his freedom to share classified information,
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his answer chilled me to the bone. Because they're not
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hiding anymore, James, whatever those things are, they're done staying invisible,
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and I think they want us to know they're there.
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He told me that over the past six months, similar
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encounters have been reported by submarine crews throughout the Atlantic
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and Pacific fleets. Not officially, there are no official reports,
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but through back channel communications, informal conversations between sonar operators
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who've been sworn to secrecy. Objects that move impossibly fast underwater,
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objects that seem to monitor submarine operations, Objects that communicate
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with each other using acoustic technologies we don't understand. And
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here's the pattern that's emerging. These encounters are happening more frequently,
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lasting longer, and becoming more overt, like whatever intelligence is
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operating these craft is gradually revealing itself. But here's what
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really scared him. Three days ago, after the latest encounter,
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his submarine received new orders, not through normal commands, but
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through a direct encrypted communication that bypassed his commanding officer entirely.
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Orders to proceed to specific coordinates and maintain position for
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special operations, testing coordinates that put them directly above one
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of the deepest ocean trenches in the North Atlantic. When
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they arrived at the designated position, they were ordered to
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shut down all active sonar, all communications, all electronic systems
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except life support and navigation, complete electromagnetic silence, and then
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they waited for six hours. They sat in total darkness
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at eight hundred feet depth, listening to the ocean through
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passive sonar only, and what they heard defied every assumption
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about what lives in our oceans. Massive acoustic signatures moving
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in the deep trend inches, not mechanical sounds, biological sounds,
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but biological sounds from creatures that would have to be
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larger than blue whales to generate those acoustic patterns. Sounds
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that seemed to be coming from multiple creatures moving in
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coordinated patterns thousands of feet below the ocean floor, creatures
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that apparently live in underwater cavern systems we never knew existed.
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And then the really impossible part, some of those biological
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signatures started moving upward toward the surface fast. His submarine
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was ordered to emergency ascent, full speed to the surface,
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no questions asked. They breached in less than ten minutes,
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a maneuver that should have taken forty minutes and should
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have killed everyone on board from decompression. But they survived
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because something was helping them, something managing their ascent, controlling
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the pressure changes, making it possible for them to reach
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the surface safely in a time frame that violated every
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principle of submarine operation. When they finally surfaced, the ocean
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around them was glowing bioluminescence, but not from plankton or
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any known marine organism. The entire surface of the ocean
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was pulsing with structured light patterns that looked almost like communication.
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And that's when he saw them. Not under water objects,
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this time aerial objects, hovering about one hundred feet above
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the water's surface, completely silent, emitting the same structured light
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patterns that were appearing in the ocean below. The objects
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in the water and the objects in the air were
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communicating with each other using light coordinated intelligent communication between
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underwater and aerial craft, using technologies that don't exist in
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any human military His commanding officer was on the radio
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immediately reporting the sighting to fleet command, but instead of
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receiving orders or back up, he was told to continue
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mission as planned and maintain operational security regarding all recent observations.
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No investigation, no debriefing, no acknowledgment that anything unusual had occurred,
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just orders to forget what they'd seen and return to
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normal patrol operations. But my friend can't forget because he
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realized something that night that's been keeping him awake for
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the past three days. These objects, under water and aerial,
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they're not visitors. They're not invaders. They've been here all along,
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living in our oceans, operating from underwater bases, maintaining technologies
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and civilizations. We never suspect it existed, and now they're
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revealing themselves, gradually, carefully, but unmistakably. The question isn't whether
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we're being visited by non human intelligence. The question is
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how long non human intelligence has been sharing our planet
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without us knowing it, and why they've decided that now
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is the time to let us see them. My lawyers,
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my safety and my NDA compel me to tell you
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this is all parody. None of this is real, Right,
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stay paranoid,
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