It wasn't until 2005, when NOAA embarked on an acoustical survey of the Antarctic off of South America, that scientists began to understand the bloop's origins. Robert Dziak, from NOAA's Pacific ...

Almost a decade of research after the Bloop was heard, the NOAA declared in 2005 that the sound appeared to have been an icequake. Specifically, the creation of an iceberg.

When that happens, people's imaginations tend to run wild, sparking all sorts of speculative theories. This is exactly what occurred when a peculiar "bloop" sound was detected in the Pacific Ocean ...

That makes it "extremely unlikely" that the sound is animal in origin, but he also pointed out that the hypothesis that the Bloop was caused by an animal wasn't ever really a serious one. He said ...

The 1997 Bloop baffled scientists and inspired conspiracy theories, fiction, and cryptid speculation for years. Initially too powerful to match any known animal or machine, it was finally traced ...

If the Bloop was made by an animal, then it seemingly must be larger than any other known organism. Even the blue whale, whose record length is about 110 feet, would not be nearly big enough to ...