A mysterious pinging noise believed to be emanating from the floor of the Arctic Sea is now being investigated by Canadian military authorities. The sound was first noticed by local residents in the remote village of Iglooik in far Northern Canada. The noise has been described as a pinging sound or a high-pitched hum and has baffled locals as well as scientists and other experts brought into the region to investigate the source of the strange sound.
The noise also seems to be chasing away local wildlife in the region. Open areas of the Arctic Ocean usually teeming with fish and other wildlife are now ominously vacant of living creatures —including endangered whales, seals and polar bears--since the sound began. This has residents who depend on the wildlife for food to survive the incredibly harsh winters of the Canadian Arctic deeply concerned. So concerned, in fact, that they are pleading with local and national authorities to uncover the cause of the noise — be it man-made, an act of nature or a side effect of climate change. One thing is certain: Whatever the cause of the noise, it has to be BIG.
Officials from the Canadian National Department of Defense are monitoring the situation but have yet to determine or reveal the exact source of the sound. Some people have pointed the blame at a local iron mine company while others are blaming the ecological protection group Greenpeace for planting sonar devices beneath the ocean to frighten animals from hunters, but neither claim has been substantiated. One of the more colorful claims is that a UFO spaceship has been located by authorities deep beneath the frigid waters and the sound is a distress signal.
Biologists and scientists continue to look for answers to the vexing mystery, as local residents hope for a positive outcome before the situation grows desperate. With the effects of climate change a daily concern for people in the region, the quicker the answer, the better.