And Now for Something Completely Different..

With all of the political fever as of late, I thought it would be nice to read about something completely different. Something to make you think.. What the [email protected]#@!!

During the heyday of the Cold War, we had an almost paranoid obsession with keeping track of Soviet Submarines at all times. We would position our own submarines near ports where Soviet subs were launched. We would use Satellites to track progress of submarines being built.

Our side had specific tracker subs that follow Soviet subs at all times. Of course, the Soviets did the same thing.

One of the biggest projects that we had was a vast array of hydrophones, basically microphones, that were installed in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Codenamed SOSUS, these were huge arrays that were miles long. Their only purpose was to listen for sounds that a Soviet submarine would make. From those sounds, they were able to triangulate submarine position and even type of sub.

Since the end of the Cold War, these microphone arrays have been taken over and used for research by the NOAA. Recordings have been used for various Oceanographic research such as earthquake activity and migration patterns of whales.

During a monitoring session in the summer of 1997, they recorded a sound. A very strange sound that was determined to be biological in nature.

A very strange sound that happened to be very loud. How loud you may ask?



It was recorded by 2 separate hydrophone sources that were 5000 kilometers apart! That’s 3000 miles! A sound that was magnitudes louder than anything made by the largest creature on earth, the Blue Whale.

Nothing living in the ocean is supposed to be that loud!

It was triangulated to an area around a remote point in the south Pacific Ocean, west of the southern tip of South America.

The sound was so baffling to scientists that they gave it a name…”The Bloop”. The sound continued to be heard randomly moving around the entire summer of 1997.

The only thing that can be said for sure is that it was created by some creature, a very LARGE creature, deep in the ocean depths.

Actual NOAA recording of the Bloop

So what do I think it could possibly be? I think it’s obvious….