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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 610299" data-attributes="member: 8461">I think that what may possibly the most relevant detail is one that the article didn't reveal.How recently? Six weeks? Or just a few days? If its been a matter of weeks or months, then while this is a baffling mystery, there is no real reason to think there are any extraordinary events happening here. If its shorter though, there is definately something supernatural happening here.Mysteriously traversing hundreds or even thousands of miles and mysteriously missing people are both rather common staples of what's popularly known as "alien abduction" although some people (such as John Keel of Mothman Prophecies fame) feel that that answer reveals nothing except our own ability to blind ourselves to a truth that's even harder to believe, or even conceive of. Either way, it irks me that the article doesn't say.EDIT: I just noticed the map the article is linked to, giving places and dates for the ship. It was in Liuchiu, Taiwan on October 30, then was reported in the Marshall Islands on December 13, and then found by the Australian Navy on January 8, derelict.The question now becomes when the crew disappeared. From the little I know, a manned ship can easily make those distances in the time allotted (I could be wrong here, anyone know for sure?), but I doubt one that was abandoned could make those times just drifting.One thing to note is that the map says "ship reported in Marshall Islands" for the December 13 date. Reported by whom? A member of the crew, giving them some relevant dates to work with? Or reported by someone else seeing a drifting ship, which would heighten the suspicion that something unnatural is going on?Very mysterious...</blockquote>

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