September 21, 2025 • 12 mins
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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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calaruga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is Paranormal Aliens, Episode eight. I just heard from
my friend in the Navy.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You can call me James, and I just got off
a secure call with my friend, let's call him Simon,
who's a sonar operator on a nuclear submarine. We've been
friends since college and he's never once called me about
anything work related, never complete compartmentalization, total operational security. Until
(00:57):
last night. Called me at two am using a civilian
phone from a bar in Norfolk. Said he needed to
talk to someone outside the Navy, someone who would understand
what he was telling me, someone who wouldn't think he
was losing his mind. He's been under water for the
past six weeks on a routine patrol mission in the
(01:21):
North Atlantic, routine until three days ago when his sonar
started picking up signatures that shouldn't exist. First, the whales
went silent, completely silent. He's been tracking marine life acoustically
for twelve years and he's never heard the ocean go
dead quiet like that. No whale songs, no dolphin clicks,
(01:48):
no biological noise at all, just nothing. Then the reading started.
At zero three four seven hours, his passive sonar detected
multiple large objects moving under water at impossible speeds. Not submarines.
He knows every submarine signature in the NATO database, every
(02:11):
Russian boat, every Chinese vessel. These were something else, entirely
cylindrical objects, roughly three hundred feet long, moving it over
two hundred knots under water. For context, the fastest submarine
in the world max is out at about forty five
knots submerged. These things were moving four times faster than
(02:34):
anything we've ever built. But that wasn't the weird part.
The weird part was they were completely silent. No propulsion, noise,
no cavitation, no acoustic signature at all except for the
water displacement. It's like they were gliding through the ocean
without any means of propulsion that his equipment could detect.
(02:57):
And there were dozens of them, moving in perfect formation,
maintaining precise spacing, following coordinated flight paths, except they were
under water. His commanding officer was called to the sonar room.
The XO came down within an hour. They had three
senior officers crowded around his station, all staring at readings
(03:21):
that shouldn't be possible. Then came the order he'd never
heard before in twelve years of service. Classify all sonar
data from the past four hours, no logs, no records,
no discussion. But here's what really freaked him out. When
he went back to review the data the next morning,
(03:43):
it was gone, not just classified, completely erased, like those
four hours of sonar readings had never existed, except he remembered,
and so did the other sonar operators who'd been on duty.
They all saw the same impossible signatures. So he started
(04:05):
paying closer attention, started watching patterns his superiors thought he
couldn't detect. For the next two days, the objects appeared again,
same time, zero three, four seven hours, same formation patterns,
same impossible speeds. But now he was ready. He used
(04:27):
his personal phone, against every regulation in the book, to
photograph the sonar displays, low resolution, but enough to prove
what he was seeing. And that's when he noticed something
that made his blood run cold. The objects weren't just
moving randomly. They were following his submarine. Every course change,
(04:52):
every depth adjustment, every tactical maneuver. The objects adjusted their
formation to maintain the same relative position, like they were
shadowing his boat, learning its capabilities. On the third night,
something even stranger happened. His submarine received an acoustic ping,
(05:15):
not from another submarine, not from any known source, a
ping that seemed to come from directly below them, from
depths where nothing should be able to survive. The ping
was answered by something above them, then something to port,
then starboard. They were surrounded. His commanding officer immediately ordered
(05:39):
battle stations full emergency protocols, but then, just as suddenly,
he rescinded the order, told everyone to stand down, resume
normal operations, and forget what they'd heard. But my friend
couldn't forget because he'd recognized something in that acoustic exchange.
(06:02):
It wasn't random noise or equipment malfunction. It was communication, structured,
purposeful communication between multiple underwater objects using acoustic protocols he'd
never heard before. We'll be right back. When I asked
(06:31):
him why he was telling me this, why he was
risking his career and possibly his freedom to share classified information,
his answer chilled me to the bone. Because they're not
hiding anymore, James, whatever those things are, they're done staying invisible,
and I think they want us to know they're there.
(06:54):
He told me that over the past six months, similar
encounters have been reported by submarine crews throughout the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets. Not officially, there are no official reports,
but through back channel communications, informal conversations between sonar operators
who've been sworn to secrecy. Objects that move impossibly fast underwater,
(07:21):
objects that seem to monitor submarine operations, Objects that communicate
with each other using acoustic technologies we don't understand. And
here's the pattern that's emerging. These encounters are happening more frequently,
lasting longer, and becoming more overt, like whatever intelligence is
(07:44):
operating these craft is gradually revealing itself. But here's what
really scared him. Three days ago, after the latest encounter,
his submarine received new orders, not through normal commands, but
through a direct encrypted communication that bypassed his commanding officer entirely.
(08:08):
Orders to proceed to specific coordinates and maintain position for
special operations, testing coordinates that put them directly above one
of the deepest ocean trenches in the North Atlantic. When
they arrived at the designated position, they were ordered to
shut down all active sonar, all communications, all electronic systems
(08:32):
except life support and navigation, complete electromagnetic silence, and then
they waited for six hours. They sat in total darkness
at eight hundred feet depth, listening to the ocean through
passive sonar only, and what they heard defied every assumption
(08:53):
about what lives in our oceans. Massive acoustic signatures moving
in the deep trend inches, not mechanical sounds, biological sounds,
but biological sounds from creatures that would have to be
larger than blue whales to generate those acoustic patterns. Sounds
that seemed to be coming from multiple creatures moving in
(09:16):
coordinated patterns thousands of feet below the ocean floor, creatures
that apparently live in underwater cavern systems we never knew existed.
And then the really impossible part, some of those biological
signatures started moving upward toward the surface fast. His submarine
(09:37):
was ordered to emergency ascent, full speed to the surface,
no questions asked. They breached in less than ten minutes,
a maneuver that should have taken forty minutes and should
have killed everyone on board from decompression. But they survived
because something was helping them, something managing their ascent, controlling
(10:02):
the pressure changes, making it possible for them to reach
the surface safely in a time frame that violated every
principle of submarine operation. When they finally surfaced, the ocean
around them was glowing bioluminescence, but not from plankton or
(10:22):
any known marine organism. The entire surface of the ocean
was pulsing with structured light patterns that looked almost like communication.
And that's when he saw them. Not under water objects,
this time aerial objects, hovering about one hundred feet above
(10:44):
the water's surface, completely silent, emitting the same structured light
patterns that were appearing in the ocean below. The objects
in the water and the objects in the air were
communicating with each other using light coordinated intelligent communication between
underwater and aerial craft, using technologies that don't exist in
(11:08):
any human military His commanding officer was on the radio
immediately reporting the sighting to fleet command, but instead of
receiving orders or back up, he was told to continue
mission as planned and maintain operational security regarding all recent observations.
(11:30):
No investigation, no debriefing, no acknowledgment that anything unusual had occurred,
just orders to forget what they'd seen and return to
normal patrol operations. But my friend can't forget because he
realized something that night that's been keeping him awake for
the past three days. These objects, under water and aerial,
(11:56):
they're not visitors. They're not invaders. They've been here all along,
living in our oceans, operating from underwater bases, maintaining technologies
and civilizations. We never suspect it existed, and now they're
revealing themselves, gradually, carefully, but unmistakably. The question isn't whether
(12:20):
we're being visited by non human intelligence. The question is
how long non human intelligence has been sharing our planet
without us knowing it, and why they've decided that now
is the time to let us see them. My lawyers,
my safety and my NDA compel me to tell you
(12:40):
this is all parody. None of this is real, Right,
stay paranoid,
Calaruga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is Paranormal Aliens, Episode eight. I just heard from
my friend in the Navy.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You can call me James, and I just got off
a secure call with my friend, let's call him Simon,
who's a sonar operator on a nuclear submarine. We've been
friends since college and he's never once called me about
anything work related, never complete compartmentalization, total operational security. Until
(00:57):
last night. Called me at two am using a civilian
phone from a bar in Norfolk. Said he needed to
talk to someone outside the Navy, someone who would understand
what he was telling me, someone who wouldn't think he
was losing his mind. He's been under water for the
past six weeks on a routine patrol mission in the
(01:21):
North Atlantic, routine until three days ago when his sonar
started picking up signatures that shouldn't exist. First, the whales
went silent, completely silent. He's been tracking marine life acoustically
for twelve years and he's never heard the ocean go
dead quiet like that. No whale songs, no dolphin clicks,
(01:48):
no biological noise at all, just nothing. Then the reading started.
At zero three four seven hours, his passive sonar detected
multiple large objects moving under water at impossible speeds. Not submarines.
He knows every submarine signature in the NATO database, every
(02:11):
Russian boat, every Chinese vessel. These were something else, entirely
cylindrical objects, roughly three hundred feet long, moving it over
two hundred knots under water. For context, the fastest submarine
in the world max is out at about forty five
knots submerged. These things were moving four times faster than
(02:34):
anything we've ever built. But that wasn't the weird part.
The weird part was they were completely silent. No propulsion, noise,
no cavitation, no acoustic signature at all except for the
water displacement. It's like they were gliding through the ocean
without any means of propulsion that his equipment could detect.
(02:57):
And there were dozens of them, moving in perfect formation,
maintaining precise spacing, following coordinated flight paths, except they were
under water. His commanding officer was called to the sonar room.
The XO came down within an hour. They had three
senior officers crowded around his station, all staring at readings
(03:21):
that shouldn't be possible. Then came the order he'd never
heard before in twelve years of service. Classify all sonar
data from the past four hours, no logs, no records,
no discussion. But here's what really freaked him out. When
he went back to review the data the next morning,
(03:43):
it was gone, not just classified, completely erased, like those
four hours of sonar readings had never existed, except he remembered,
and so did the other sonar operators who'd been on duty.
They all saw the same impossible signatures. So he started
(04:05):
paying closer attention, started watching patterns his superiors thought he
couldn't detect. For the next two days, the objects appeared again,
same time, zero three, four seven hours, same formation patterns,
same impossible speeds. But now he was ready. He used
(04:27):
his personal phone, against every regulation in the book, to
photograph the sonar displays, low resolution, but enough to prove
what he was seeing. And that's when he noticed something
that made his blood run cold. The objects weren't just
moving randomly. They were following his submarine. Every course change,
(04:52):
every depth adjustment, every tactical maneuver. The objects adjusted their
formation to maintain the same relative position, like they were
shadowing his boat, learning its capabilities. On the third night,
something even stranger happened. His submarine received an acoustic ping,
(05:15):
not from another submarine, not from any known source, a
ping that seemed to come from directly below them, from
depths where nothing should be able to survive. The ping
was answered by something above them, then something to port,
then starboard. They were surrounded. His commanding officer immediately ordered
(05:39):
battle stations full emergency protocols, but then, just as suddenly,
he rescinded the order, told everyone to stand down, resume
normal operations, and forget what they'd heard. But my friend
couldn't forget because he'd recognized something in that acoustic exchange.
(06:02):
It wasn't random noise or equipment malfunction. It was communication, structured,
purposeful communication between multiple underwater objects using acoustic protocols he'd
never heard before. We'll be right back. When I asked
(06:31):
him why he was telling me this, why he was
risking his career and possibly his freedom to share classified information,
his answer chilled me to the bone. Because they're not
hiding anymore, James, whatever those things are, they're done staying invisible,
and I think they want us to know they're there.
(06:54):
He told me that over the past six months, similar
encounters have been reported by submarine crews throughout the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets. Not officially, there are no official reports,
but through back channel communications, informal conversations between sonar operators
who've been sworn to secrecy. Objects that move impossibly fast underwater,
(07:21):
objects that seem to monitor submarine operations, Objects that communicate
with each other using acoustic technologies we don't understand. And
here's the pattern that's emerging. These encounters are happening more frequently,
lasting longer, and becoming more overt, like whatever intelligence is
(07:44):
operating these craft is gradually revealing itself. But here's what
really scared him. Three days ago, after the latest encounter,
his submarine received new orders, not through normal commands, but
through a direct encrypted communication that bypassed his commanding officer entirely.
(08:08):
Orders to proceed to specific coordinates and maintain position for
special operations, testing coordinates that put them directly above one
of the deepest ocean trenches in the North Atlantic. When
they arrived at the designated position, they were ordered to
shut down all active sonar, all communications, all electronic systems
(08:32):
except life support and navigation, complete electromagnetic silence, and then
they waited for six hours. They sat in total darkness
at eight hundred feet depth, listening to the ocean through
passive sonar only, and what they heard defied every assumption
(08:53):
about what lives in our oceans. Massive acoustic signatures moving
in the deep trend inches, not mechanical sounds, biological sounds,
but biological sounds from creatures that would have to be
larger than blue whales to generate those acoustic patterns. Sounds
that seemed to be coming from multiple creatures moving in
(09:16):
coordinated patterns thousands of feet below the ocean floor, creatures
that apparently live in underwater cavern systems we never knew existed.
And then the really impossible part, some of those biological
signatures started moving upward toward the surface fast. His submarine
(09:37):
was ordered to emergency ascent, full speed to the surface,
no questions asked. They breached in less than ten minutes,
a maneuver that should have taken forty minutes and should
have killed everyone on board from decompression. But they survived
because something was helping them, something managing their ascent, controlling
(10:02):
the pressure changes, making it possible for them to reach
the surface safely in a time frame that violated every
principle of submarine operation. When they finally surfaced, the ocean
around them was glowing bioluminescence, but not from plankton or
(10:22):
any known marine organism. The entire surface of the ocean
was pulsing with structured light patterns that looked almost like communication.
And that's when he saw them. Not under water objects,
this time aerial objects, hovering about one hundred feet above
(10:44):
the water's surface, completely silent, emitting the same structured light
patterns that were appearing in the ocean below. The objects
in the water and the objects in the air were
communicating with each other using light coordinated intelligent communication between
underwater and aerial craft, using technologies that don't exist in
(11:08):
any human military His commanding officer was on the radio
immediately reporting the sighting to fleet command, but instead of
receiving orders or back up, he was told to continue
mission as planned and maintain operational security regarding all recent observations.
(11:30):
No investigation, no debriefing, no acknowledgment that anything unusual had occurred,
just orders to forget what they'd seen and return to
normal patrol operations. But my friend can't forget because he
realized something that night that's been keeping him awake for
the past three days. These objects, under water and aerial,
(11:56):
they're not visitors. They're not invaders. They've been here all along,
living in our oceans, operating from underwater bases, maintaining technologies
and civilizations. We never suspect it existed, and now they're
revealing themselves, gradually, carefully, but unmistakably. The question isn't whether
(12:20):
we're being visited by non human intelligence. The question is
how long non human intelligence has been sharing our planet
without us knowing it, and why they've decided that now
is the time to let us see them. My lawyers,
my safety and my NDA compel me to tell you
(12:40):
this is all parody. None of this is real, Right,
stay paranoid,
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