A mysterious pattern spotted in seafloor data has sparked claims that a ‘sunken city’ may be hiding near the Bermuda Triangle.
Self-described UFO researcher Scott C Waring identified the shapes near Cuba and Haiti, arguing they could be the remains of a city constructed by ancient humans.
Waring made the purported discovery using an online map from the Seabed 2030 project, a global initiative seeking to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade.
The seafloor data shows a series of faint, roughly parallel and intersecting lines across the seabed west of the island.
He estimated that the apparent site stretches seven or eight miles in one direction and approximately three miles in the other.
‘This new map is extraordinary,’ Waring said in a YouTube video highlighting the area. ‘In this one location, there is an ancient sunken city.
‘There are a lot of geometric shapes, which indicate there is something down here that was intelligently made,’ he added.
However, no archaeologists or marine scientists have examined the site or confirmed that the patterns represent physical, human-made structures.
Self-described UFO researcher Scott C Waring identified the shapes near Cuba and Haiti (left of the island), arguing they could be the remains of a city constructed by ancient humans
Waring said the scale and regularity of the shapes convinced him that they were unlikely to have formed naturally.
He considered whether the supposed builders were humans or visitors from another world.
‘Now, is it ancient alien or is it ancient humans?’ Waring asked on his site, UFO Sightings Daily. ‘That’s the big question.’
He ultimately favored a lost human civilization, arguing: ‘I would probably go with ancient humans because the geometric design looks more primitive and less futuristic to me.’
Waring suggested the shapes could mark the remains of a settlement resembling Atlantis, the legendary civilization said to have disappeared beneath the sea.
‘This could be a long-lost city, long ago like Atlantis or something, built on the coral reef of an island area,’ he said.
He speculated that a powerful earthquake may have destabilized the island, causing the reef and everything constructed upon it to collapse into the ocean.
‘An earthquake just could have rattled it so much that coral could have just collapsed on itself and the whole island could have sunk,’ Waring explained.
The ‘sunken city’ is described as lying near the Bermuda Triangle, the loosely defined region of the Atlantic associated with decades of stories about vanishing ships, missing aircraft and unexplained compass behavior
Waring made the purported discovery using an online map from the Seabed 2030 project, a global initiative seeking to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade
However, he acknowledged that the scenario was only his own theory and presented no geological or archaeological evidence showing that an island once existed at the site.
‘This is just my hypothesis, my guess,’ he said.
Waring placed the anomaly in the waters near Cuba and Haiti, close to the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas.
He also described it as lying near the Bermuda Triangle, the loosely defined region of the Atlantic associated with decades of stories about vanishing ships, missing aircraft and unexplained compass behavior.
Waring claimed alleged magnetic anomalies in the area could cause vessels to lose their bearings or even suffer engine failures.
However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says there is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently within the Bermuda Triangle than in any other heavily traveled section of ocean.
The researcher noted that the patterns were not visible in the area when using Google Earth
The agency notes that severe storms, rapid weather changes caused by the Gulf Stream, shallow waters and human error can explain many of the incidents attributed to the supposed phenomenon.
Waring also questioned why the same patterns were not visible on Google Earth, alleging that the platform had concealed the area beneath a layer of smoothed blue imagery.
‘Google Earth shows nothing there at all,’ he said. ‘They use a smoothing program, cover it in blue and you get to see nothing.’
There is no evidence that Google deliberately concealed anything at the location.
Maps of the ocean floor are assembled from information of varying quality and resolution, including direct sonar measurements, satellite observations and computer-generated estimates used to fill enormous gaps between surveys.
Combining those sources can produce straight lines, grids and other apparently geometric patterns that do not necessarily represent genuine objects on the seabed.
Confirming a lost settlement would require detailed sonar surveys, underwater photographs and physical evidence such as worked stone, pottery, tools or other artifacts.
Until such an investigation is conducted, the ‘city’ remains an interpretation of patterns within mapping data rather than a verified archaeological discovery.
