Canada Pinging Sound Keeps Military Awake

In Canada, a mysterious pinging sound in the Fury and Hecla Strait near Igloolik was recently checked out by the military.

The pinging sound, which has been also described as a "hum" or "beep," was heard by people throughout the summer, the CBC News reported. A Canadian CP-140 Aurora airplane was dispatched to the area in attempt to find the unusual sound.

"The air crew performed various multi-sensor searches in the area, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies," a statement from the Canadian Department of National Defense said, per the CBC News. "The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts. The crew did observe two pods of whales and six walruses in the area of interest."

The government of Nunavut, a sparsely populated area in northern Canada, asked the Canadian government recently to investigate the sound, the Ottawa Citizen reported. Some hunters in the area were concerned that the sound was scaring off animals.

Paul Quassa, a member of Nunavut territory legislative assembly, told lawmakers in October that the sounds were coming from the sea floor, wrote the Ottawa Citizen.

"The sound that has been heard in the area seems to be emitted from the seabed and underwater," Quassa said in an Oct. 25 statement, noted the Citizen. "Our constituents as well as hunters and boaters have reported that the area in question is almost devoid of sea mammals and that hunting has been poor in the area for quite some time."

The newspaper stated that there have been past reports of mysterious objects in Canada's Arctic waters over the years. The Citizen stated that witnesses posted at least a dozen sightings of unusual objects moving along or just below the surface of the water, mostly around Baffin Island in the late 1990s and 2000s, according to Canadian Forces records.

Many of the sightings that happened around Pond Inlet on Baffin Island were believed to be foreign submarines examining the country's Arctic territories, wrote the Ottawa Citizen.

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