Seeing If This Sub Story Is True?

[mark]

In 1963 the U.S. navy conducted some exercies near Puerto Rico when a sonar operator pick up a unidentified subaqueous object that was going over 150 knots and went down 27,000 feet.
Is this story true?

[tom dougherty]

Only Mulder and Sculley know

Only Mulder and Sculley know for sure....

[bharris]

In 1963 the US Navy's

In 1963 the US Navy's sonar systems did not have the capability to measure 150 knots of doppler nor did the sonar systems have the capabilities to determine a target depth that extreme.
Destroyers did have a rudimentary depth determining system that worked in conjunction with the SQS-4 active system called the SQR-8 but its depression capabilities were extremely limited due too the crude beam forming capabilities of that era. Add to that the fact that it looked good in theory but did not really perform well in the real world.
Been there done that, did not happen.

[tony g.]

Bob are you sure?

Bob are you sure?

[shadowpeo]

Although not an expert on

Although not an expert on any of the systems that are mentioned by bob, I do think that yes, while they may have detected it, it is more likely to be an erroneousness reading than anything else

[redboat219]

A non-terrestrial intelligence. NTIs. Oh

A non-terrestrial intelligence. NTIs. Oh man, that's better than UFOs. Oh, but that works too, huh? "Underwater Flying Objects".
- THE ABYSS

[bharris]

"Beam me up Scotty there

"Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life on this planet"