This is exactly what occurred when a peculiar "bloop" sound was detected in the Pacific Ocean in 1997. After years of speculation and debate, scientists eventually unraveled the mystery behind it.

Bloop baffled scientists and inspired conspiracy theories, fiction, and cryptid speculation for years. Initially too powerful ...

The sound, which lasted for about one minute, was one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded. Below, you can listen to the bloop sped up 16 times: Paola Alexandra Rosa · Bloop, a ...

Let’s move on to Slow Down, which was first recorded on May 19, 1997. Like Upsweep, the sound can still be heard several times each year. The sound was detected about 2,000 miles west of Peru ...

Back in 1997, hydrophones in the Pacific Ocean detected a very unusual sound. It came to be known as the Bloop, and though you'd think that blooping would hardly be an unusual thing to hear in an ...

In 1997, the Bloop was heard on hydrophones across the Pacific. It was a loud, ultra-low frequency sound that was heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, and one of many ...

When the Bloop was first reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the media began to speculate that it was caused by a giant undersea creature. Key Facts: In 1997, the Bloop… ...

In 1997, Bloop was detected by U.S. Navy "spy" sensors 3,000 miles apart that had been put there to detect the movement of Soviet submarines, the magazine reports. The frequency of the sound meant ...

Like the Bloop, Julia is most likely the sound of ice. In this case, NOAA researchers suspect the hydrophones picked up the sound of a large Antarctic iceberg running into the seafloor. 3.

But according to new audio from NASA, it turns out that when it comes to a meteoroid hitting Mars, it's more of a "bloop" than a "boom." NASA has been working on getting the sound for years.

NASA shared the sound of a meteor falling to Mars, with photos of the impact craters, on Monday. The dwindling InSight lander has captured the acoustic and seismic noise of four meteor impacts.