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The Abyss (1989)

美國 · James Cameron

James Cameron placed alien intelligence in the deep sea, bringing "unidentified submerged objects" (USOs) and trans-medium craft into the mainstream imagination.

Cameron's *The Abyss* imagines a non-terrestrial intelligence (an "NTI") living in a deep-ocean trench, its craft moving freely between water and air[1]. Where most UFO stories look to the sky, the film moves the focus below the surface, giving the idea of an *unidentified submerged object* (USO) its first large-scale visual treatment. Its glowing, seamless craft that dives at speed and breaks the surface maps neatly onto this archive's description of trans-medium phenomena.

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