The Bloop: The Ocean’s Loudest Mystery Sound (1997)
In 1997, NOAA’s underwater microphones picked up an ultra-low-frequency ‘bloop’ loud enough to be heard more than 5,000 km away. People suggested a sea monster. NOAA later said it was ice.
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NASA Tracks a Fireball Over Ontario Seen Across Michigan
At 8:47pm EDT on 13 September 2026, a seven-ounce piece of asteroid lit up the sky from Metro Detroit to northern Michigan. NASA’s camera data tells us exactly where it was, and why it was nothing stranger than space rock.
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A Bright Green Fireball Lights Up New Zealand’s North Island
On the evening of Sunday 30 August 2026, a green fireball crossed the upper North Island for about ten seconds and burned out over the sea north of Tauranga. Meteor cameras tracked it, and no meteorite is expected.
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Daylight Flashes Over the Mojave Near Edwards Air Force Base
A public wildfire camera caught bright bursts of light over the Mojave near Edwards Air Force Base in August 2026. Next to the base sits one of the largest solar arrays in the United States. Here is what the record shows.
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A Farmer Finds New Zealand’s 11th Meteorite After a Fireball
A fireball crossed New Zealand’s lower North Island at 10.26pm on 28 July 2026. Within days, citizen scientists had pulled fragments of it from Wairarapa farmland. Here is the record, including where the reports disagree.
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‘Felt It in My Chest’: Bozeman’s Latest Boom
At least five west Bozeman residents felt a wall-shaking boom between 8 and 8:15pm on 31 July 2026. Police, the utility, the airport and two military units all came up empty. Here is the record, the weather and seismic data, and the likeliest ordinary cause.
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Something Fell Into the Ocean Off Vero Beach. A C-130 Searched 40 Square Miles.
On 23 July 2026, a beachgoer called 911 after seeing a white object drop into the Atlantic off Treasure Shores Beach Park, followed by black smoke. Four agencies searched about 40 square miles and found nothing. Patrick Space Force Base said military aircraft may have dropped flares in the area.
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Mystery ‘Space Balls’ Wash Up in Queensland
Six metal spheres washed up at Forrest Beach, north of Townsville, between Friday 3 and Sunday 5 July 2026. Australia’s space agency says they are almost certainly rocket pressure vessels. The question still open is whose rocket they came from.
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Hundreds of ‘Apocalyptic’ Speakers on Mount Shasta
In June 2026 a horseback rider near Weed, California, followed a screeching noise to a hillside covered in solar-powered speakers. Two weeks later she had tracked down the man who put them there. Here is the full record.
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A Fireball Burns a 300-Mile Path Over the Midwest
At 10:26 pm Central (11:26 pm Eastern) on 14 June 2026, a one-pound piece of asteroid lit up the sky over 14 states. It ran 300 miles from Tupelo, Mississippi, to the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. NASA’s camera data, the witness count and why no meteorites fell.
