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Inside the Soviet submarine, the crew could feel the impact of explosions shaking the walls. They waited for hours, enduring the intense pressure of U.S. depth charges, desperate to receive some kind of signal or call to action. Meanwhile, the air conditioning had malfunctioned, and the men aboard were overheated, exhausted, fevered with worry and anticipation. They knew it was their responsibility was to fire their nuclear-tipped torpedo in the event of an attack on Russia, and in the intense chaos they debated how to act. Had the crisis between John F. Kennedy, the U.S. President, and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, finally boiled over? How close had the world come to witnessing the atomic apocalypse feared by so many over the course of the crisis?

An unidentified fighter jet, a top-secret flight squadron, and a mysterious Russian connection... what just crashed in 2018 near Area 51? A classified black project aircraft? Or something even stranger...? Click to subscribe to Dark Docs: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

At around 6 pm on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017, an undisclosed aircraft fell out of the evening sky and into the Nevada Desert below. The vast tract of empty land it crashed down in is known as the Nevada Test and Training Range, 5,000 square miles of dry wilderness used by the Air Force for bombing, training, and stealth exercises. The crash site was located 100 miles northwest of the Nellis Air Force Base, in the vicinity of both Groom Lake Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range Airport, facilities notorious for housing top-secret aircraft and weapons programs.

The pilot of the downed aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz, was lost in the incident, and photos and documentation of the event have been actively hidden from the public. Given the intense secrecy of many flight activities in the area, rumors have since emerged that Schultz may have been piloting a highly classified aircraft. In the absence of official details, questions loom: What kind of aircraft had Schultz been flying that day? Was it from one of the U.S.’s own black project programs? Or, even more intriguing, was there an unusual Russian connection?

It was the loudest sound ever recorded underwater, and its audio profile seemed to match an animal call. What as the Bloop and could an unidentified creature have made it? Listen here along with 5 more of the most mysterious sounds ever recorded in the ocean. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

The ocean, so dark and inhospitable to humans, is the great unexplored terrain of our planet. In its depths exists lifeforms that have yet to be discovered, and perhaps cannot even be imagined. So when, in 1997, a unidentifiable and unimaginably loud sound was detected in the remote South Pacific, people across the world started began speculating about its cause. Named after its unique sonic profile, there was something about the sound that suggested an animal origin. But could it really have been created by a leviathan of the deep? Or was it the rumble of an ice-shelf breaking apart? Maybe even an incident caused by man? Or something much stranger? Let’s take a dive into the midnight zone of mystery surrounding the enigmatic and alluring sound known as The Bloop.