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‘Mystery booms’

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 18:45 MJA Uncategorized 38

American Thinker: You’re sitting in your living room with your family, watching TV.  Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a loud explosion.  The house shakes.  You run to the window, expecting to see your neighbor’s house reduced to a ruinous heap – but thankfully, everything’s fine.  You then meet your neighbors coming to see if your house is in a ruinous heap.  After a brief discussion of what could have possibly happened, you call 911.  They take your information and say they’ll send someone out to investigate.  The next morning, your local news reports that a “boom” was heard in your area, people’s houses shook, multiple residents called 911, and local authorities investigated but found no logical explanation.

This scenario is playing out across the United States, even around the world, at a regular if not increasing rate.  The first spate of unexplained Alabama noises seems to have begun in 2011.  By 2012, the science website EarthSky.org featured the headline “Mysterious, unexplained ‘booms’ in Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin.”

These events, dubbed “mystery booms,” are being reported by local news outlets via TV, radio, and internet.  On the surface, they might sound like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but that’s far from the truth.  These are real events reported by real journalists who consult the USGS, local military bases, and scholarly astronomers before reporting back to their stupefied public.

(Wikipedia refers to them as “Skyquakes” and regularly updates its entry to reflect all possibilities.)  read more

 

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38 Comments on ‘Mystery booms’

  3. The distance sound travels depends to a certain extent on the density of the air, moisture content. Colder temps have drier air therefore sound will travel farther. I don’t think these booms are exploding tanerite but I really don’t know either Interesting mystery.

  9. These are space vehicles entering the atmosphere from our invaders that are here to replace the ones they brought earlier when they implanted THEIR KIND to eliminate the Democratic party ON THIS DATE IN 1963!!! And since their plants haven’t succeeded in taking over the planet. They are sending in replacements for the CLINTONS! 🙂

  11. Lots of strange sky-noises here in the Phoenix area. Clear skies, no clouds, humidity at 10% and a flat landscape makes a good setting for sound that travels from who-knows- where.
    I scanned the sky one afternoon, looking for the jet? or the helo that kept the sound going for 2 min, 35 sec. Nothing was there. Nothing but sound. Creepy.

  13. When I lived in Yermo, CA, I often heard sonic booms of the latest aircraft being tested. I’d see two contrails of follower planes, but not the sonic one. Sometimes it would make what I called stomping sounds, sometimes just a few booms in succession. Sometimes it cause about 3.5 earthquakeing on the ground.

    I suspect the govt is testing it’s around the world speeds, now. Unless it is a foreign govt testing EMP feasibility.

    Whatever, the govt knows a lot more than they’ll tell us deplorables.

  22. There was one in So.Cal recently. I know what sonic booms are like and earthquakes. Sonic booms do not make the ground move like an earthquake would. With the recent one the ground had a grinding vibration feel and sound. News reports said it could not be explained.

  26. The other day I thought I heard something.

    I am twenty miles away and on the other side of the Hudson River from there so I don’t know if this might have been it or not but I’m sure it was loud.

    There was a huge chemical explosion at a cosmetics factory. One man was killed and 125 people were injured, which according to the paper, is half the workforce in the building.
    Firemen got hurt in a second explosion.
    The place has a LOT of OSHA violations. People living nearby were told to shelter in place inside their homes before it could be determined that it was safe to breathe outside.

    Story:

    http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/11/21/newburgh-man-killed-cosmetic-factory-explosion-total-injured-increases/884906001/

  27. Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown makes thunder!!

    Kidding aside, I’ve seen some vids on YT from around the world, including here in the U.S., of strange harmonic sounds that last for a long time with no apparent reason. Personally, I’ve been waiting for the sheet of fire in the sky.

    Revelations 14:2 says this: And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. — NIV

    Born the year I was, I was always felt a little left out that I’d missed some of the Baby Boomer events like Woodstock, The Summer of Love, the Civil Rights movement, and so on. But, who knows, is it possible the 2C could be my reward?!

  30. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50’s, periodically Rocketdyne over in Simi (about 10 miles away) would test rocket engines. A lot like an earthquake and sonic boom combined. Lasted about 30 seconds and rattled the dishes on the shelves. Good times!

  35. If you’ve ever lived in the landing flight path of B-1s, B-2s, or F-22s you’d understand.

    In the 70’s we lived less than a hunnert miles from Omaha SAC, you’d swear the sky was falling.

    I’ll call it the sound of freedom. 🇺🇸

  37. Tony R, I grew up in Simi Valley 1969-2003 and fondly remember the Rocketdyne tests up in the Santa Susana pass throughout my entire child hood. They would cook off what sounded like a Saturn 5 engine every few months of so. By 1980 or 1982 the testing had all but stopped.
    In Cub Scouts we even got to go to the facility for one of the tests (1975ish) and it was great. One of my fondest childhood memories. Too bad that was also the sight of three catastrophic, but classified, nuclear accidents, that officially only irradiated the local area, where we Cub Scouts were.
    I equate Simi to Derry Maine in the book “IT!”. We had no killer clowns or supernatural forces, we had environmental dangers that we did not know about. My pediatrician was an old U-boat doctor in the Kreigsmarine. Nice guy but rough and abrupt and hated giving males anesthetic.
    Simi Valley was beautiful safe town of 98% college educated middle class whites where all dads were aerospace engineers, and the moms stayed home to raise the kids. But the whole town had a dark side. Every year at least one of out classmate would die of leukemia, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, brain tumors, or just weird stuff and another would just die from accidents of all sorts, childhood death was everywhere but we accepted. All of my four sisters have breast cancer and I had testicular cancer, but we all survived.

    One weird custom was us kids visiting the parents of the dead schoolmate a few week after the death and tell them what a great and funny and good kid their son was. Sometimes we would bring back all the borrowed toys of their kids that they has.
    It was an off death ritual I have never heard of before. If their son mowed the lawn, on of us would take turns mowing the lawn for a few weeks.
    Sometimes the parents would give us their sons old toys and we would treat them with reverence.
    We had a lot of great times, but way to much exposure to childhood death at way too early of an age.

  38. Anonymous: That’s a sad story. haven’t lived their since ’74, but I understand some of that area is a superfund site due to all the weird stuff dumped in the ground. SF Valley was a great place to live back in the day. Not so much anymore.

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