There is an anomalous zone in the Pacific Ocean, which is located at the intersection of 15th south longitude and 98th west latitude. Sailors have repeatedly heard strange sounds coming from the ocean depths here. The sounds resembled a rumbling, a plaintive moan, or a roar that turns into a deafening gurgle. Some of the sounds can only be heard for a few minutes, and some have been heard for many years.
The American Oceanographic Authority created an acoustic research project led by Christopher Fox. An expedition was sent to the anomalous zone of the Pacific Ocean to study the mysterious sounds coming from the world's oceans.
After researching several types of sounds, Christopher Fox created their own classification. So, the most melodic sound was named Julia, he called the measured tapping "train", and the sharpest of the signals was described by scientists as a "whistle". But it was never figured out what could be their source.
Researchers from different countries put forward different hypotheses about the origin of mysterious sounds. It is believed that they can be generated by icebergs, volcanic eruptions or unknown marine animals. Fox himself does not reject any of the hypotheses, and even the thought of a sea giant creating sounds does not seem strange and unlikely to him.
For over a decade, Fox has continued to research anomalous sounds from the ocean. The most modern equipment is used, which is able to catch sounds from the depths of the waters. Underwater, a sound control system was installed, which was used by the US Navy during the Cold War to track the movement of Soviet submarines. Since 1991, civil organizations engaged in the study of the World Ocean have begun to use this system.
The ocean waters are filled with many strange sounds that merge into a real cacophony. Special microphones are installed under the water, which at infrasonic frequencies below 16 hertz pick up various sound vibrations of the ocean.
In addition to mysterious sounds, it is possible to hear quite natural sounds in the ocean. An earthquake under water is like thunder, the talk of humpback whales is like bird trills. According to the characteristics inherent in certain sounds, it is possible to establish that they belong to a ship, a blue whale or precede volcanic activity. But for almost two decades of research, the group of K. Fox has repeatedly encountered sounds, the source of which is impossible to determine.
For example, in different parts of the Atlantic, underwater acoustic devices recorded sounds similar to grumbling. It is believed that such a sound could have appeared as a result of volcanic activity observed along the ridges between Chile and New Zealand.
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There are also sounds similar to whale singing, but they sound much louder. Perhaps this can be considered indirect evidence of the existence of marine animals unknown to science. Indeed, over several centuries of navigation, there have been so many stories about sea monsters, striking in their size and unusual appearance. To this day, the remains of huge octopuses are thrown onto the shores of New Zealand and Australia.
According to another version, strange noises may appear due to the friction of the Arctic ice. Several of the studies support this theory. For example, in May 1997, near the equator, it was possible to catch sounds, as if born of huge surfaces rubbing against each other. The sounds continued for 7 minutes. It was found that their source is located approximately hundreds of kilometers from the place of their discovery, somewhere in the Antarctic region.
The researchers concluded that the friction of the huge ice sheets could have generated this kind of sound. And this was not the only case when mysterious sounds came from the shores of Antarctica. Fox hopes that new research will help establish whether the sounds are born from a huge glacier sliding into the ocean, or they are generated by unprecedented sea monsters.
In the middle of the 20th century, sailors encountered a strange phenomenon that cannot be explained using traditional science. In the beginning, stories about encounters in the depths of the ocean with mysterious humanoid creatures were passed from mouth to mouth. They were not given much importance until the stories became more and more and it became impossible to close our eyes to them.
In some places in the oceans, submarines of many countries have observed unidentified objects. These meetings were preceded by mysterious sounds recorded by hydroacoustics. The signals strongly resembled the croaking of frogs, so the unidentified objects that emit them began to be called Quakers. At first, this name was found only in oral stories, but over time it also passed into official documents containing information about encounters with strange objects.
But they soon found out that they had met with the mysterious Quakers before. It turned out that the Americans and the British had already dealt with them during World War II. At that time, the Allied army had more advanced hydroacoustic equipment than the German army. During the battles in the Atlantic, the equipment recorded mysterious sounds from the depths of the water. The Americans and the British decided that the Germans had new weapons, which caused genuine panic. As a result, the information about this event was classified, and the problem was not returned until the end of the war.
Soviet sailors began observing Quakers around the beginning of the 1950s, when they began using the 611 and 613 series submarines. These submarines had a more advanced acoustic system, so they could pick up sounds that were not available to their predecessors.
Why are these cryptic signals, which are believed to have originated in the mysterious Quakers, remarkable? After all, many other no less strange sounds are heard from the depths of the ocean. The point is that the sounds produced by Quakers are very different from other underwater noises. Eyewitnesses claim that they had the impression that unknown sources of signals were acting quite deliberately. It looked like the Quakers were suddenly showing up and trying to make contact with the sailors.
From the stories it becomes clear that the Quakers sailed around the submarines, and the frequency and tone of their signals changed, as if they were trying to establish a dialogue. Strange creatures especially reacted to sonar signals from submarines. After some time, the Quakers sailed away, but only then to return later. Sailors from Russian submarines said that the Quakers sailed alongside until the submarines left an area, then they gave a farewell signal and disappeared. There was never any aggression on their part, and their appearance on submarines did not have a negative effect on them. Quakers, on the contrary, showed their peacefulness.
But the submarine commanders were still afraid of the appearance of mysterious underwater objects. After all, they appeared suddenly and crossed the course of the submarine, if the submarine changed course, then an unidentified underwater object (NGO) crossed it again. Despite the fact that in all the years of observing the Quakers, they did not attempt an attack, the submarine crews were constantly in suspense when meeting them.
Not only submarines had to deal with strange phenomena. The crews of surface ships can also tell about mysterious cases. For example, the ship "Vladimir Vorobyov" conducted oceanographic research in the Arabian Sea, and once the team noticed a luminous white spot rotating counterclockwise around the ship. Gradually, it fell into 8 equal parts. With the help of an echo sounder, the depth under the ship was measured, which was 170 meters, and under the keel of the ship at a depth of about 20 meters there was a strange mass, from which a light vibrating sound emanated.
To solve the problem with the Quakers in the Northern Fleet, the fleet commander, Admiral G. M. Egorov, created a freelance special group headed by the chief of staff of the fleet. The group also included the head of the analytical department A. G. Smolovsky, who later wrote many serious works on the Quakers.
In the 1960s, a lot of noise was raised around UFOs. There have also been many reports of the sighting of unidentified underwater objects. For the Soviet Navy, this problem was also urgent. The command of the USSR Navy was extremely skeptical about reports of various anomalous phenomena and did not welcome talk about it. But there were more and more messages, and it was simply impossible not to report them.
Defense Minister Marshal A. A. Grechko gave the order to create a special group under the intelligence department, which included several officers. The task of the special group was to study, systematize and analyze all the strange phenomena that occur in ocean waters and can become dangerous for Soviet ships. The group got down to work: they had to travel around the fleets and collect any information that in one way or another related to the NGO. In addition, several expeditions were organized to detect strange signals in the water.
Seamen from other states also met with Quakers. In particular, there is a lot of evidence of American meetings with them.
In the United States, a real hunt for NGOs and Quakers has begun. The US Air Force used the most advanced global sonar tracking system (SOSUS), which they used to search for Soviet nuclear submarines. The system covered part of the Pacific Ocean and the entire Atlantic. In the 1960s, the first parts of the SOSUS were installed, and in 1991 civil scientists were allowed to use the system, as happened with Professor K. Fox.
At a depth of several hundred meters, listening posts were located, they could recognize most of the sounds, for example, the singing of whales, the friction of icebergs on the ocean floor, the rumble of submarine propellers, and underwater earthquakes. In addition to completely natural sounds, SOSUS also picks up unidentified signals. With the help of the sonar system, it was found that the broadcast of unknown sources spreads almost over the entire ocean.
Long waves are recorded by sensors located in different parts of the planet. These are mainly low-frequency waves, reminiscent of the sounds made by working equipment. The signals were recorded on a tape recorder and scrolled at an increased speed. It turned out that they are quite distinguishable for human hearing, in addition, there are several different types of signals, each of which has its own characteristics. Researchers divide them into "whistle", "howl", "train" and "braking".
From 1991 to 1994, the system recorded a constant signal called "upward". It sounded like meaningful. Then he suddenly disappeared. A few years later, it was detected again, and the signal became stronger and more diverse. US Navy experts and civilian scientists conduct their research in parallel to each other, but so far neither can understand the strange signal. They are unable to establish where the signal source is located, to whom it may belong and to whom it is addressed. The signal source seems to be specially located far from the hydrophones and at the same time moves all the time. Such sources of sounds are called NZO - unidentified sound objects.
1966, March - Long-range underwater communications were tested in America. A kilometer long antenna was laid along the continental shelf. A ship entered the sea, to the bottom of which the locators lowered down were attached. With the beginning of the experiment, anomalous events began. At first they caught a signal, then something similar to its repetition, as if it were an echo, then strange, as if coded messages began to be heard. The experiment was carried out several more times and all the time they received similar data.
Colonel Alex Sanders noted that it was like "someone in the depths, took our signal, imitated it in order to attract our attention, and then began to transmit his message on the same wavelength." We spotted the source of the signal, which was at a depth of 8,000 meters in an almost unexplored area of the Atlantic Ocean. It was decided to terminate the experiment and declare it unsuccessful.
It was only in 1996 that the records obtained during that experiment were entered into the most modern computers of the Pentagon. The US Navy cryptographers never released the data obtained from the decryption of the records. But military oceanographers began to actively study the bottom in the area of the Atlantic Ocean, from where the sounds came.
NGOs are capable of incredible speed. From the waters of the Gulf of Thailand and the Persian Gulf, from the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea, for over 100 years, there have been reports from merchant and military ships about glowing lights and strange objects under water. In the past few years, mysterious sounds have been increasingly heard from one of the deepest places in the World Ocean - the Mindanao underwater canyon, which is 9,000 meters deep.
In the early 1980s, research on the Quaker problem was suddenly curtailed. The officers were sent to other assignments, the scientists returned to their laboratories. All data obtained on this topic was classified and sent to the archives of the General Staff.
There is still no consensus on who the Quakers are. But all researchers believe that Quakers are really real, and they have a specific goal, which is why they have a sound effect.
Experts from the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of the Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences believe that Quakers may turn out to be some creatures that are still unknown to science and have a high level of development. Most likely, this is a real, but not yet discovered animal, because there is so much evidence of encounters with strange inhabitants of the ocean.
It is believed that giant squids can have senses that work in the sound range. It may be that the Quakers may be a subspecies of the mysterious giant architevris squid, a giant eel, or a plesiosaur. According to some reports, giant sea snakes, encountered by many sailors, had a speed of 65 km / h on the water surface. Perhaps, at the depths of the ocean, they are able to move at great speed and can easily overtake submarines. The habitats of the giant snakes coincide with the places where Quakers were more often found. This is the Gulf of Mexico, the western Pacific Ocean, waters between Iceland and Greenland, the coast of the United States and Scotland.
Experts note that the signals produced by Quakers are different from all known sounds. Some believe that the signal has an animal source, while others hear it clearly of technical origin.
Quakers can be submarine UFOs, as well as the latest developments in America. For example, in some cases, after submarines recorded the appearance of the Quakers, American anti-submarine ships appeared. But the locations of NATO's powerful anti-submarine forces almost completely coincide with the places where giant sea snakes were most often seen. For example, the Faroe-Icelandic border is located in the area between Iceland and Greenland. The places where the submarines met the Quakers are patrolled by American missile submarines. There are also training grounds for the US Navy.
The depths of the oceans are so unknown that even aliens can hide there. The mysterious underwater inhabitants are not yet visible, but it is already well heard …
V. Konev