TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Navy said Monday the unidentified object spotted under water near its top base last week was not a Chinese submarine or a sea mammal. A newspaper reported Sunday that an anti-submarine helicopter found a submarine within Taiwanese territorial waters near the naval base of Tsoying during military maneuvers on January 27. As soon as the Navy called on the submarine to identify itself, it fled out of the area without responding, leading to suspicions it came from China, the reports said.
The Navy denied the report, saying sonar showed up an unidentified object which could not have been a submarine.
On Monday, 168th Fleet Commander Lee Tung-fang said the object did not dive rapidly to escape detection, but continued on its course at a speed of 2 nautical miles an hour. The data told the Navy that there were no submarines, whales or dolphins involved, Lee said.
The 168th fleet had originally been patrolling off Taiwan’s east coast, but was called to the area off Kaohsiung’s Tsoying base to participate in anti-submarine drills, he said.
The area in the Taiwan Straits was difficult terrain for finding submarines, the senior officer told reporters. His unit had previous experience with locating underwater objects inside Taiwanese territorial waters which later turned up not to be submarines, according to Lee.
Over the past few years, Chinese spy ships have often appeared around Taiwanese waters. Taipei has requested to buy diesel-electric submarines from the United States, but they were not included in a US$6.4 billion weapons package for Taiwan announced by the Obama Administration last Friday.” |
Sarah
April 9, 2011 at 3:31 am
WORST OF ALL, IT IS PROBABLY FROM THE ALIEN DRAGON TRIANGLE UNDERWATER BASE!!!!! THAT UNDERWATER BASE IS HUGE AND HAS MANY THINGS GOING ON DOWN THERE. AND, WHERE DOES THEIR WORMHOLE LEAD INTO, THE SERPENT’S GALAXY? DRACO? SATURN PLANET? THERE ARE 6 UNHOLY PLANETS IN OUR KNOWN UNIVERSE. THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS, DRAGON’S ARE UNHOLY AND ARE A 666 TYPE OF DEAL GOING ON. AND, EARTH IS THE LEARNING PLANET FOR EVERY LIVING BEING ON IT AND WHEN YOU ALL DIE, YOUR SOUL WILL MIGRATE TO EITHER TO GOD OR SATAN. THE RAPTURE IS NEAR TIME.