The Shadow
In Aug. of 2017, a strange, circular-shaped object nearly 10 feet in diameter was discovered in the ocean at Westerly, Rhode Island’s East Beach near Taylor Swift’s oceanfront mansion.
The object made of eight stainless steel arms extending from a concrete-circular center was partially buried in the sand near the shoreline. Swimmers discovered the submerged object, and one pulled a piece of purple fabric from it.
Others tried unsuccessfully to pull it out of the sand, but after that failed, an excavator was brought onto the beach to remove the object.
Once removed from the surf, it resembled an acoustic Doppler profiler used to measure water temperatures and speeds, but the object was twice a Doppler’s diameter.
Peter Brockman, the president of the East Beach Association, noted that the object had not been identified as its stainless steel legs were being reassembled to fit its concrete, circular center.
Speculation by news agencies ranged from the origin of the object being a military device, a piece of oceanographic equipment or an alien apparatus.
Nationwide interest peaked in that the unidentified object was found in the surf near the backyard of Taylor Swift’s oceanfront mansion. Swift, an American singer and songwriter, purchased the mansion in 2013.
Frank Bahr, a research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s department of oceanography surmised that the object could be the base of an Acoustic Doppler current bottom mount profiler for a sensor that is used to bounce signals to researchers who monitor the rapidity of waves.
Bahr quipped that the strange object appeared to be poorly constructed, perhaps one privately made.
The use of concrete for its circular center cast doubt on the early speculation that the strange object could be a UFO.
As for the Holiday House, Swift’s seafront mansion situated on five acres in the Watch Hill neighborhood of Westerly, it still provides a bird’s-eye view of the beach where the strange object was discovered and removed.
