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 ...

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 ...

The sound came to be called “the bloop” and remained a mystery for more than a decade. Like everyone else on the planet, the PMEL researchers wanted to know what was behind the bloop, but so little of ...

Bloop is the big kahuna in unexplained sounds. In 1997 (a big year for auditory ocean mysteries), an extremely powerful, ultra-low-frequency sound was detected at various listening stations ...

Possible locations of The Bloop. Credit: Nojhan / Wikimedia Commons The coordinates for the origin of The Bloop were pinpointed to an indeterminate point within an area located at 50° South-100° West, ...

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.