Red Herring
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The Soviet Subs Are Like Super Hita
Magnus told me that the swedish military actually used sonar to investigate this sound. What they saw on the screen in front of them was that sound coming from an object. And then they would watch that object split apart, divided into two, oh, and then divided into four. Then it could go back into one again. Wo and now we can guess that what they were probably seeing was a school of herrings splitting apart, splitting together again. But at the time, this was the soviet sub sor they must have thought this subs are like super hita, exactly.
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