Bloop

The ocean already contains large unidentified animals, and a giant squid is the parsimonious answer.

The Bloop 1997.

NOAA hydrophones in the Equatorial Pacific record an extraordinarily loud ultra-low frequency sound, detected across thousands of kilometres.

For years it was seriously discussed as possibly biological, which would have required an animal larger than a blue whale.

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This would explain high levels of radiation found on some of the clothing and the concussive internal injuries without external marks.

Now, there's a lot of unsettling discrepancies in the whole case.

Even with modern science, several details remain stubbornly defiant of logic.

The missing tongue.

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So the second one is called the Bloop.

The Bloop.

Created in 1960s, the U.S. Navy's Equatorial Pacific Ocean Autonomous Hydrophone Array is a system of underwater microphones capable of detecting sounds as soft as a burp at ranges of several hundred miles.

Think of that.

The noise was so loud it was picked up on Navy undersea microphones more than 3,000 miles away.

Wow.

It was dubbed the Bloop.

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So the second one is called the Bloop.

The Bloop.

Created in 1960s, the U.S. Navy's Equatorial Pacific Ocean Autonomous Hydrophone Array is a system of underwater microphones capable of detecting sounds as soft as a burp at ranges of several hundred miles.

Look at that.

In 1997, the array recorded something totally unexpected, an extremely powerful underwater sound originating from a remote part of the Pacific off the southern tip of South America.

The noise was so loud it was picked up on Navy undersea microphones more than 3,000 miles away.

It was dubbed the Bloop.

After all, speculation has been running rife since 1997, when an ultra-low frequency, high-amplitude sound was picked up from the deep ocean by the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Nicknamed the Bloop, a firestorm of media coverage in the years that followed likened this signal to the call of a living creature, but one many times larger and more powerful than the blue whale, based on the strength of the signal.

In 2012, however, this notion was all but dismissed by NOAA, who instead found it more likely to be the product of a distant ice quake, not the mystifying call of an undiscovered deep-sea leviathan.

The fact is, at such suffocating depths, there simply isn't enough biomass down there to keep a creature of such size ticking over.

It originated from a remote area in the South Pacific, far from any major shipping lanes.

Now, the Bloop, as it came to be known, wasn't just a loud noise.

It had a specific signature.

The sound lasted for about one minute.

It was an ultra-low frequency sound that frequency shifted upward over the course of the minute.

Now, the magnitude is the part that defies logic.

The Bloop was detected by sensors more than five thousand kilometers or three thousand miles apart.

To be picked up at that distance, the source had to be orders of magnitude louder than any noise humans have ever attributed to the natural world.

We were talking shit.

Bloop.

Like, she's just like, and of course, because she's so charming and Giselle is a fan.

She was like, OK,

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