British ships spent several days tracking down a suspected Russian stealth submarine before concluding the suspicious sonar signature may have actually belonged to a farting whale, a Royal Navy source has told The Sun.
Two mystery sounds were picked up off the northwestern coast of Scotland, between Applecross and the Isle of Raasay, according to the UK tabloid. Convinced they were man-made, the Royal Navy went on a deep-sea hunt.
“We have been analyzing the sounds and now believe it was a marine mammal. A whale,” an anonymous naval official told The Sun, adding that the whale may have been passing gas at the time.
“We are taking it very seriously,” another Royal Navy source said. “We have to assume the worst.”