Mysterious Landmass Appears In South Atlantic Ocean
From Kenneth Forrester, CNN
updated 9:04AM EST, Wed November 8, 2017

It was about four hours ago that South African mariners reported seeing a new island near Cape Horn, in what experts are calling the most bizarre geological phenomenon they've ever seen or heard of.

This new landmass is extremely large - about the size of Texas - and almost perfectly circular. Authorities are at a loss to explain where it came from.

"It doesn't make one bit of sense any way you slice it," says Yale geologist Ashley Williams, one of many scientists planning a trip to the island in hopes of learning more about it. "There isn't one thing in current theory that can explain a giant, unnatural-looking island suddenly popping up where there wasn't anything. Whoever figures out what it's doing there's going in the history books."

The island's sudden appearance isn't its strangest property, though. The South African sailors discovered that when they attempted to set foot on the island, they were repelled by what they describe as a "force field."

"The best I can describe it is, it looks like a giant bubble but it acts like an unbreakable wall," says South African sailor Ayotunde Ihejirika, one of the first to see the island. "It lets water through fine, it lets animals through fine, but if it's human or it's made by a human, it won't go through."

Physicists are at a loss to explain how such a barrier could actually exist, but it's gotten the attention of the entire scientific community, who are determined to find out.

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