Swedes lose contact with alien submarine

Press, 11 October 1982, Page 6

Swedes lose contact with alien submarine

NZPA Berga Naval Base. Sweden For the first night since a suspected alien submarine was spotted in waters off Sweden's main naval base on October 1. no contact was established with the vessel yesterday. Navy spokesman said, however, that nothing had happened overnight to change the indications that an alien submarine was trapped in the Hors Bay Deep, inside the Stockholm Archipelago. LieutuanantColonel Evert Aulen said that Mysinge Bay immediately outside the barred Hors Bay "still is interesting."

The Swedish Minister of Defence. Mr Borje Anderson, stronglv denied Italian press reports that the nationality of the submarine was established and that Swedish Government officials were negotiating an end to the incident in a third country with an unspecified "foreign superpower." The intruding submarine was widely believed to be Russian but Swedish Defence spokesmen have refused comment on its ityinformed sources said a Soviet Union Intelligence plane, an Ilyushin-38, displayed “unusual interest" in

the area where the intruder is believed trapped. The Swedish national dailynewspaper. “Dagen’s Nyheter." reported that a naval search team said the submarine “made an attempt to sneak up its snorkel to get fresh air or raise the periscope to assess surveillance." But apparently no depth charges were dropped on Friday and Saturday. During the 16-day hunt, the Swedish Navy has dropped some 40 depth charges over the "probable submarine." Three powerful mines were detonated on Thursday in Mysinge Bay. a Navyspokesman said.