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The One
18th October 2011, 12:07
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Due to the recent activity of UFO sightings in Chilie at the moment i thought i would post this

In May 2007, a huge lake in Chile literally disappeared overnight. The only things left behind was a giant, 30 meter deep pit, icebergs, and dry soil!

All of the water and its contents were gone. Despite the fact this strange incident took place more than two years ago, word is just now getting out about it. As word is finally starting to spread across the internet, UFO enthusiasts and paranomalists are putting forth theories as to how something like this could have happened.

This wasn’t a small lake or pond, either—-it was approximately five miles long! Located in Patagonia, Chile, the last time geologists saw it was in March 2007 and nothing appeared strange or different about it at all. What could have happened within just two short months? How could a giant lake disappear out of nowhere? In addition to the lake simply vanishing, a river that flowed from the lake was reduced to a very small stream.

When this story first broke, many people thought it was just a hoax, and indeed it does seem too bizarre to be true. It is true, however, despite how baffling it is. Apparently the icebergs were still left behind—-intact, despite the fact that the water was gone. Geologists also report huge cracks at the bottom of the pit. Did the water somehow drain through the cracks? Was there some sort of earthquake? Why then were the icebergs fine?

One glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, explained to a Chilean newspaper that the lake itself did not even exist three decades ago. So, is it possible that the landscape in that part of the world is reforming itself? Geologists and glacier specialists are currently doing tests to see what they can find out about the bizarre landscape in that area.

While some are holding out to see if there could be any scientific explanation about what happened, some media reports are trying to claim that the water was actually drained by UFO’s! Is this just media sensationalism, or something more? Whether there is a scientific explanation for what happened or paranormal, only time will tell.

This isn’t the first time a lake disappeared out of nowhere. There have been a few instances in the past where an earthquake caused water to drain. The only problem with this theory in this case in point is that there had been no reports of any earthquakes in that particular area in spring of 2007.


http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDQQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disclose.tv%2Faction%2Fviewvideo%2F27462%2FBIG_LAKE_DISAPPEARS_OVER_NIGHT_IN_CH ILE%2F&ei=CGudTvjXHoTYsgbTuYCeCQ&usg=AFQjCNHAYeOMWJaB4ro2byizzGJFLixZSQ

ktlight
18th October 2011, 12:14
"One glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, explained to a Chilean newspaper that the lake itself did not even exist three decades ago."

Maybe this is a clue.

Unified Serenity
18th October 2011, 12:18
Yes, it's called gravity. The water flowed through the cracks, which I bet if you could see underground opened up and thus their was an increased suction at some point. We have a lake here in Tallahassee that occaisionally disappears overnight because of sink holes. They don't even have to be that big. It happened a couple of years ago, and the lake remained dry for a couple of years, but it has filled back up now.

Unified Serenity
18th October 2011, 12:22
It took me 2 seconds to locate this explanation:

"Located in Bernardo O'Higgins Park, in the southern Andes mountains, the lake is (was) rarely visited and didn't even have a name."

"It took scientists several weeks before they were able to discover the answer because the site is very remote -- about 4,900 feet above sea level and 1,250 miles south of Chile's capital, Santiago. But in early July 2007, scientists got their answer.

An investigation has revealed that too much water was the problem. The melting Tempano and Bernardo glaciers filled the lake beyond the crater's capacity. The increased pressure broke the lake's moraine through which water flowed out, later ending up in the ocean. The lake is refilling as the chunks of ice on the lake bed melt, though Chilean scientists pointed out that global warming did have a serious effect. Glaciers naturally melt and reform, but warming is causing the Tempano and Bernardo glaciers to melt more than they should.

For some lakes, rapidly appearing or disappearing is part of a natural process. The lake in Chile did not exist 30 years ago, though, again, global warming is likely affecting the process. Some lakes, including many in Alaska and Florida's Lake Jackson, go through a similar process regularly, disappearing and reappearing during certain seasons, or from year-to-year or decade-to-decade."

Full Story (http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/disappearing-lake.htm)