UNDERSEA MYSTERY-1
Report #223
September 10, 2012
Joseph P. Skippper

In the above 1st image the red 
    "X" and its highlighted coordinates 
    mark the evidence location as well as the type of Philippine Sea underwater 
    terrain it is located in. Note that this location is basically in the middle 
    of no where well out east of the Philippine islands and Taiwan and northwest 
    of Guam. All are familiar names to those versed in WWII information. 
    
    Note also that it is located on an elevated ridge system that forms the eastern 
    boundary of a deep water basin that goes down west into what appears to be 
    an abyssal plain extending west toward the Philippines. You should know that 
    this whole area is associated with the northern part of the Mariana Trench 
    system. The deepest part of the Mariana Trench known as Challenger Deep is 
    in the dark narrow area immediately south of the island of Guam in the image 
    lower right corner.
    
    Understanding ocean bottom terrain characteristics is important to understanding 
    the evidence site here and its potential. In the open ocean deep there can 
    be sea mounts that are known to fishermen even from ancient times. Sea 
    mounts are nothing more than mountains or mountain ranges on the ocean 
    bottom the tops of which may come close to the ocean surface but not breach 
    it. If the top does break the surface creating exposed land, from a mariner's 
    point of view it is of course known as an "island."
    
    Because of their elevated mass, sea mounts can dramatically effect water currents 
    swirling around them and that can attract concentrations of living creatures 
    such as fish, whales, etc. and thereby of course fishermen who sometimes try 
    to keep their locations secret from their fishing competitors. They may even 
    spread rumors about the dangers of fishing around them to help keep others 
    away. As you can see in the above image, this evidence site is right on and 
    part of a elevated mountain ridge system oriented north and south extending 
    south from Japan. 
    
    It would not be unreasonable to anticipate that any sea mount in these Mariana 
    Trench system depths might be accompanied by others nearby along the same 
    ridge system.

The above 2nd image provides a 
    closer view of the evidence location site. However, as you can see, there 
    is nothing here in this view to really see. The site itself is hidden by concentration 
    of smudge treatments within the yellow circle. Further, The rough textured 
    background you see extending around and further out from this spot where I 
    have put "not real" labels is just 
    that, not real. It is some form of very advanced image tampering covering 
    and hiding what otherwise might have been seen in this area.
    
    What is incredible from my research point of view is that we are suppose to 
    be looking at fixed satellite imaging. Yet this textured background moves 
    and sways back and forth and from side to side as though attempting to mimic 
    a major field of kelp or some other vegetation fixed to the bottom moving 
    in response to constantly shifting water currents. It immediately comes to 
    mind that a constantly shifting and moving false background like this would 
    be very hard to nearly impossible to defeat graphically and is a really powerful 
    obfuscation tool. 
    
    Worse, Google Earth has massive amounts of this type of obfuscation all around 
    its Earth globe and especially in suspect places where someone like me would 
    want to look. In fact, for a researcher like me, its presence suggests that 
    something may be hidden in the areas it appears in and draws research attention 
    for a closer even if often futile look. 

In the above 3rd image just a tiny 
    ever so slight amount of increased zoom and presto what you see above in image 
    #2 literally pops suddenly into view like a hole in a closed door. At first 
    the evidence site appears to be a typical shallow atoll sticking out of the 
    water but closer inspection reveals this is actually all submerged underwater 
    and remember that this site is a part of the Mariana Trench system which also 
    makes it part of one of the deepest areas of the world's oceans.
    
    Before we go in for a closer look at the evidence in the next image, please 
    note the textured background out and around this hole in the tampering. Note 
    that the objects (false vegetation) would be impossibly gigantic relative 
    to the evidence site true size. This demonstrates that one cannot trust the 
    scale data supplied by Google Earth when this kind of manipulation is going 
    on in an image.

In the above 4th image we're still 
    looking at the evidence site through the hole in the tampering but now closer. 
    The white surf on the north (upper) side of the site demonstrates waves moving 
    from the darker really deep water onto the lighter color shallower water above 
    this submerged mountain sea mount. Note that the very narrow band of light 
    color terrain just outside the wave line into the darker water indicates a 
    quick sharp drop into much deeper water. So we are looking at a submerged 
    sea mount here coming fairly close to the surface but not breaching it as 
    an island sticking out of the water.
    
    Note the clouds pointed out by my labeling. Note the dark shadow on the left 
    cast by one of the clouds. This demonstrates just how distant this scene really 
    is and again why Google Earth stated scales often can't be trusted.
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
The above 5th–8th images 
    positions us as close as possible to the evidence before distortion completely 
    takes over. The structures here all appear to be underwater and I'm thinking 
    the rectangular four joined constructs may be related to the resin structures 
    seen in my 2010  on Air Force Dugway land here in the USA and specifically images 
    #3 and #11-14 in that report.
    
    These rectangular structures together may be presented as experimental marine 
    habitats of some kind? Maybe but I suspect that they are considerably more 
    than that located as they are between two round stations that I suspect are 
    for docking of round UFO/USO type craft as well as perhaps submarines. The 
    fact that these facilities are located underwater and thereby hidden but in 
    a shallow location suggests that they may represent Earth technological constructs 
    rather than something like alien technology.
    
    If you will refer back to the context 1st image at the beginning of this report, 
    again note that the evidence here is located on an undersea ridge line. In 
    Google Earth my search does not reveal any other nearby islands or seamount's 
    along this particular north/south oriented ridge line. However, note that 
    there is another north/south ridge line parallel to this one located relatively 
    nearby to the east. That ridge line has some small islands sticking out of 
    the water all along its length where the ridge mountain tops breach the water's 
    surface.
    
    It is likely that this particular sea mount evidence site was chosen for this 
    facility because of its remoteness. It is after all well hidden underwater 
    here as a ship would have to almost literally run directly across it to detect 
    it. I would be interested to see what nautical charts of this area say about 
    it and if there are any warnings posted for ships to steer clear of the site 
    or if there is a reference to this being a military site and to steer clear 
    of it for that reason?
    
    As for Google Earth not showing any other sea mounts or islands along the 
    evidence ridge line, that is not something that can be trusted to be truth 
    in my opinion. Google is way too "cooperative" with the US military 
    and other countries as to what they desire to be kept secret for you and I 
    to trust them in this regard. Even so, someone obviously wants this particular 
    site to be seen by someone in Google Earth and that's the reason for the tight 
    little "hole" in the obfuscation image tampering treatments in Google 
    Earth revealing this evidence's presence. 
    
    I suspect they just hoped that it wouldn't be you and I. It is after all very 
    difficult to find unless one has the specific coordinates and then have sufficient 
    zoom on the site to reveal it. Any thing less than that will not pop open 
    the revealing hole (window) and then there just isn't anything there to see 
    but featureless smudge as shown in the 2nd image here. It seems that confirming 
    this site's presence at this location in a public program like Google Earth 
    met someone's requirements.
    
    It is the same with how it was brought to my attention. The site's coordinates 
    with sufficient zoom factor were brought to my attention in an apparent casual 
    way by a party who wishes to remain anonymous in Southeast Asia. 
    
    The point is though that someone here on Earth appears to have both the technology 
    and financial commitment (expensive to build underwater) to construct such 
    a fairly extensive and modern hidden undersea facility out in the vastness 
    of international waters whether using borrowed alien technology or not. In 
    this case the evidence has a fair amount of image tampering on it and that 
    combined with the water depth and waves helps make it very difficult to inspect 
    and assess its purpose. The round evidence in the distorted closer views is 
    heavily obfuscated but appears to show some evidence of palisade vertical 
    uprights at the perimeter edge and that is curious.
    
    I note that the ground on the sea mount top surface around the evidence, although 
    visually distorted due to water depth, wave action, and tampering, does not 
    show any marks of construction equipment activity. We can't read too much 
    into that though because storms passing over this site may have erased evidence 
    of that via water turbulence if the site has very much age on it.
    
    One thing that doesn't make much sense though is that lower flying aircraft 
    passing over this site through the years would likely be able to see any round 
    craft or submarine activity at the site if someone was looking. At the very 
    least, the basic structures would be quite visible in good weather. Yet, there 
    it is. It doesn't seem to make much sense to locate such an undersea site 
    where it can be that easily seen. unless its location is strategic to something 
    critical going on nearby that we can't see?
    
    That is unless its location is strategic to something important going on nearby 
    that we can't see and no one wants us to know about? Could this be the case 
    and it is hidden from us in Google Earth? 
ADDENDUM 9/11/2012
Alert viewers 
    have brought new informative information to my attention on this report which 
    I'll share with you here and via this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinotorishima. 
    It appears this site on the Pslau-Kyushu Ridge system 
    was first visited by Spanish mariners in the mid 1500s and named by them "Parece 
    Vela" which translates into "looks like a sail." Geological 
    references apparently still primarily use this designation. It appears the 
    Japanese may have found it in the late 1800s eventually naming it "Okinotorishima" 
    or the "Okinotori Islands" translating to "remote 
    bird islands" and trying to claim it exclusively as the southern most 
    islands of Japan in the early 1900s.
    
    The site is referred to as an atoll because it is suppose to have had just 
    five rocks sticking less than 3 inches out of the water with the bulk of the 
    site submerged even at low tide. The Japanese supposedly started to establish 
    a presence on the atoll likely more to support acquisition claims to it that 
    were interrupted by WWII. The story goes that from 1987 to 1993 the Japanese 
    built round steel and concrete structures as breakwaters to retard wave erosion 
    at the site. In 1988 they built rectangular structures on stilts as a marine 
    investigation facility complete with a helo landing pad.
    
    The above Wikipedia article link contains a distant but fairly clear aerial 
    angled picture of the site showing it mostly submerged except for three 
    elevated round structures and the tight group of rectangular structures. You'll 
    note in the Google Earth imaging posted here that only two round structures 
    are visible in that material. This may be because of the too close encroachment 
    of image tampering on the perimeter of the site in Google Earth on the west 
    end of the shallows.
    
    This information would explain a lot of things associated with this site but 
    not all. For example, after reading the Wikipedia article, why would someone 
    be so persistent and spend so many millions of dollars from limited resources 
    on this place unless it has some sort of strategic value to someone that we 
    can't properly see or appreciate here? Further, why would the satellite images 
    be so hard to come upon in Google Earth without the specific coordinates and 
    then once found be so visually degraded that is often typical of covert facilities 
    making ascertaining details of the evidence so difficult? Surely there should 
    be nothing worth obscuring on old worn constructions likely abandoned for 
    long years.
    
    Someone places a high value on this mostly submerged site in a relationship 
    that isn't readily apparent in any of the sanitized Google Earth visual material 
    available to us. You must decide for yourself but this old dog is still suspicious 
    and asking questions. 
    
    , Investigator