OCEANS AND MYSTERY
Strange 'alien' holes discovered on the ocean floor News By Ben Turner | July 29, 2022 NOAA has asked the public for suggestions on what they could be? The holes appear as a closely aligned, regularly repeating pattern. Tiny piles of sediment are piled around them. (Image credit: NOAA) Explorers have discovered a series of mysterious, "perfectly aligned" holes punched into the seafloor roughly 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) beneath the ocean surface, and they have no idea who or what made them. The strange holes were spotted by the crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Okeanos Explorer vessel as they investigated the Mid-Atlantic Ridge — a mostly unexplored region of the seafloor that is part of the world's largest mountain range. The holes form a straight line and appear at regularly repeating distances, and they are surrounded by tiny mounds of sediment. This isn't the first time that holes ha...