February 12, 2016 - MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES - Several people living near Howard City reported that they felt and heard a loud boom Thursday morning.
WZZM 13 received several messages on our Facebook page from people
saying they felt a rumble similar to an earthquake or sonic boom.
"The whole ground was shaking, the house was shaking,"said
Sue Eastman of Coral. It was just before 10 a.m. Thursday when she
heard the loud boom. As she was trying to figure out what was going on,
so were several others.
Christine Rizor of Howard City thought it was an earthquake. "I was
sitting in a chair and all the sudden, it was like a big shake. I was
like, 'Whoa!'"
Kasey Field, also in Howard City, posted about it on social media. "I had people from all over the lake area. They felt it in Morley and Evart. In Sears, they heard it up there."According to the National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, it was not an earthquake.
Some suspect the source is a supersonic jet capable of producing a sonic
boom. Such a sound is caused by a jet traveling more quickly than the
speed of sound. The change in pressure causes the loud noise.
WATCH: Loud boom heard in West Michigan still a mystery.
Several people posted on the WZZM Facebook page that they saw military planes passing through the area.
So far, no military bases in Michigan seem to know where the
alleged sonic boom came from. According to the Michigan National Guard,
there are no planes fast enough and based in Michigan that can create a
sonic boom.
It is possible that a supersonic jet from another state is conducting military exercises in this area. - Detroit Free Press.
February 6, 2016 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - Portions of Sullivan County were rocked by noise that to some have compared to a sonic boom.
It occurred shortly before midnight on Saturday. Numerous residents
grabbed their phones to report the disturbance directly to police
agencies as well as 911. At the Monticello Police Department, officers
seated in their patrol cars not only heard the boom, but they said it
also rattled both their cars and the building for a second or two.
On the Times Herald-Record Facebook page, recordonline.com,
about 100 readers commented on a post which raised the question, "What
was that boom?" The post was also "shared" more than 100 times.
Readers
from Liberty to Cuddebackville, which are more than 30 miles apart,
claimed to hear the very loud sound. "Loud enough to shake my floor and
then a gusty wind for minute. Sure made the cat jump!" posted Izabella
Urban of Varnell Road in Monticello. Lance Gibson in Grahamsville posted
that he heard it and felt the shake, as did his friends in Rock Hill.
One reader wondered if it could have been the aftermath of meteor shower. Others went on Facebook to joke that the noise was the work of aliens.
Several questioned whether it was a sonic boom much like those felt
along the coasts of New Jersey, New York City and Long Island last week.
Those booms may have been caused by fighter jet flight tests at the
Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland. "Turns out the US Navy
was testing new fighter planes that can go 1200 mph. Maybe the same
thing," posted Rich Dean. Calls to the Stewart Air National Guard Base
went unreturned.
When contacted by phone, Sullivan County Commissioner of Public Safety
Dick Martinkovic said he doesn't have the answer yet. "We have no idea,"
said Martinkovic. "There's been no confirmation by the government, the
military or the scientific community."
Some readers on Facebook said they even heard a couple of
similar disturbances earlier in the day. According to Sullivan County
Undersheriff Eric Chaboty, the Sheriff's Office also received a call on
Sunday morning about a booming noise that was heard near the Swinging
Bridge Reservoir, more than seven miles west of Monticello.
Deputies went to check out the complaint, but didn't find
anything. "If anyone in the area can identify the source, contact the
Sheriff's Office and we'll investigate," said Chaboty.
The mystery of what caused the loud boom that shook Sullivan County remained on Monday.
Military officials as well as county officials returned to their offices
with few clues to offer on what was responsible for the sonic boom-like
disturbance that rocked portions of Sullivan County late Saturday
night?
"No new information," according to Dick Martinkovic, Sullivan County's
commissioner of public safety. "We haven't received any phone calls and
we haven't received any information about what the cause was," said
Heather Brown, a county research analyst who conveyed a message from
County Manager Joshua Potosek.
Whatever the noise was, it was powerful enough to shake the
Monticello police station. It was even felt by officers seated in their
patrol cars. People reported hearing the boom from Liberty to
Cuddebackville, which are more than 30 miles apart.
Calls and emails to the Federal Aviation Administration resulted in this
response. "A sonic boom would only come from a military aircraft. You
need to contact the military; we don't regulate their operations," said
Ian Gregor, FAA spokesman.
Was the Air National Guard conducting flight tests out of Stewart Airport? Their response: It wasn't them.
"The Air National Guard doesn't operate high-performance aircraft, so I
can't speak to that," said Col. Richard Goldenberg, an Air National
Guard spokesman.
The Navy conducted flight tests on the F-35 fighter jet last week, which
were heard by much of the eastern seaboard, but the Navy said it didn't
fly over Sullivan County. "We were not flying at all on Saturday night," said Shawn Graham, Navy public affairs specialist based in Patuxent, Md., which is the closest naval air station to New York. - Times Herald-Record.
February 4, 2016 - FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - A man living in Saint James City on Pine Island is wondering what's causing his house to violently shake.
Dwayne Dyer is one of many to contact Fox 4 regarding a booming explosion sound and shaking in Southwest Florida.
Sonic booms have been felt frequently in the area for the last few weeks, but Dyer said Monday, the shaking to his home was worse than ever. "Every time it happens, it's been the exact same time. I've been keeping track of it," Dyer said.
He said it's around 10:55 AM.
Dyer's house sits up on stilts, and he said it's been shaking like an earthquake. "You can feel it more or less start downstairs and work it's way up. It was pretty violent this time. It really shook the house," he said.
He's lived in his home for 12 years and went through Hurricane Charley, but said the shaking he experienced Monday was even worse.
Dyer said he's heard about the sonic booms caused by naval training in the last couple weeks, but said what he felt this morning was different. "I really don't think it's a sonic boom. I think it's something else. I don't know what it is, I think it's more in the ground," he said.
He used to be a commercial pilot and said he's never heard a sonic boom like this one.
WATCH: Mysterious booming damaging Saint James City man's home.
Four in Your Corner's Lisa Greenberg reached out to a Navy spokesperson to see what could be going on and was told there weren't any jets operating in the area.
The twisting and shaking has been causing damage to Dyer's home. "The tiles throughout the house are actually starting to pop loose. Every time this happens, it seems like one or two more tiles are getting loose," he said.
The tile is also cracked in places.
Dyer said as much as he'd like a fix for his floor, he's searching more for answers. "What's causing this is what I want to know, he said.
Fox 4 reached out to the MacDill Air Force base in Tampa to see if the booms are coming from there, but we haven't heard back yet.
The Lee County spokesperson said she's not aware of anything going on locally that could be causing the shaking. - FOX4NOW.
January 29, 2016 - NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES - The U.S. Navy said one of its aircraft likely created sonic booms in
southern New Jersey Thursday that caused people to feel ground-shaking
tremors across the state and as far away as Long Island.
At 2:24
p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a sonic boom 3 kilometers
north-northeast of Hammonton, New Jersey. It said there was no seismic
activity, ruling out the possibility of an earthquake.
SOURCE OF SONIC BOOM
The
U.S. Navy issued a statement late Thursday, saying aircraft were
"conducting flight testing in the Atlantic Test Ranges this afternoon
that included activities which may have resulted in sonic booms."
Sources said the aircraft was an F-35 being tested out of the Navy's Patuxent River facility in eastern Maryland.
WATCH: Sonic boom shakes New Jersey.
"The
test wing is critical to the safe test and evaluation of all types of
Navy and Marine Corps aircraft in service and in development and is
primarily based out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md," said the
Navy in a statement.
USGS - Sonic boom. At least 9 sonic booms were recorded in the following hour
and a half. Reported from
southern New Jersey along the Eastern Seaboard
to Long Island, New York.
USGS EXPLANATION
The USGS provided this explanation as to why people felt the ground shaking at different times:
Since
many have asked: A sonic boom travels through the air with the airplane
so it arrives at different ground locations at different times.
WATCH: CBS Report - Sonic Boom in New Jersey.
The
USGS said the booms are caused when an aircraft travels faster than the
speed of sound. The group said nine booms occurred and were recorded
over the span of 90 minutes.
Here's a map from the USGS that shows where reports of ground shaking have come in:
USGS shakemap intensity.
SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTS
The
reports of ground shaking on social media were immediate. These maps
show where people posted on Twitter using the words sonic boom,
earthquake or #earthquake Thursday afternoon.
This one is specific to the Tri-State region:
This shows the same information for the United States:
Reports of the apparent tremors in New Jersey were immediately posted social media:
7 earthquakes in a row in Jersey?? What is going on, they're getting stronger and stronger! The whole house is shaking
Tell
us about any shaking you felt in the comment section below, or tweet us
at @abc7NY. The USGS is also asking people who felt the ground shaking
to report it to them. Click here to access the submission form.
January 27, 2016 - ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES - The source of a mysterious sound heard Sunday afternoon in many parts of the Ozarks is still primarily that — a mystery.
Harrison Police began getting calls about the sound just before 4:45 p.m. Sunday.
The first caller was on West Park Avenue. The woman reported she heard
an explosion and felt vibrations, although the explosion sounded a long
way off.
An officer on patrol checked in the immediate area, but didn't locate
anything that might have been the source. A report said he spoke to
people at the Soccer Complex who also heard it and thought it might have
come from the Highway 7 South area.
A few minutes later, a caller on Highland reported hearing it and an officer checked that area,speaking to people on Windsor Drive who said it shook their house.
A caller in Batavia also reported hearing the explosion, but
Boone County Sheriff's Office officials said they didn't locate a
possible source either.
Some people thought it might have been an earthquake. However, the U.S.
Geological Survey website shows the nearest earthquake in that time
frame was about eight miles southwest of Cherokee, Oklahoma. It was
measured at a magnitude of 3.1.
A USGS seismologist said it's not uncommon for people to hear what sounds like an explosion during an earthquake.
However, she said a 3.1 magnitude quake usually won't be heard or felt more than 200 kilometers away, or about 125 miles.
Cherokee, Oklahoma, is almost 500 kilometers from Harrison.
Other people thought it might have been a sonic boom, the sound
generated when an aircraft breaks the critical speed of Mach 1, which is
roughly 760 mph.
But aviation experts say aircraft are usually limited to where
they can break the sound barrier and aren't allowed to over populated
areas.
"It's possible there was a sonic boom from a military aircraft,"
Lunsford said in a statement. "If so, it would have made a loud sound
like thunder. Depending on altitude, it's possible that people might
have been able to feel it on the ground, or see signs such as dishes or
windows rattling."
Still, he reiterated that the only aircraft capable of going supersonic these days belong to the military. - Harrison Daily News.
January 23, 2016 - CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES - A loud boom heard across Tracy rattled windows and nerves Wednesday evening.
Social media reports began appearing shortly after 8 p.m., describing a muffled boom that reportedly shook local homes.
Residents from Linne to Grant Line roads, as well as in Mountain House and Lathrop, reported the sound.
Tracy Police Department dispatch records include three reports
from residents who heard a bang.
One caller on Finale Way said it
sounded as if someone had come up and hit their living room window.
Tracy police Sgt. Dean Hicks said the department did not receive any calls explaining the sound heard across town. He said nothing had been reported from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Site 300 test site southwest of Tracy.
According to monitoring data from the California Integrated
Seismic Network, through the U.S. Department of Geological Survey, the
most recent earthquake in Northern California was on Friday.
A magnitude
3.5 quake struck near The Geysers, the world's largest geothermic
field, roughly 72 miles north of San Francisco.
No damage was attributed to Wednesday's unexplained boom. - Tracy Press.
January 22, 2016 - PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - It's a mystery not only in this area, but in communities across the country.
They sound like loud explosions, except there's never any damage. So, what is really going on?
Imagine you're sitting on your front porch when out of nowhere a cataclysmic explosion goes off. You see a bright light, you feel the force, and then, it goes away. Then, when emergency responders go to investigate, they can't find a thing.
Well, it happened in Fayette County recently and it's happening around the United States.
WATCH: Fayette Co. Residents Baffled By Mysterious Explosion.
For Michelle Wiltrout, what happened around 7:45 p.m. Monday is something she'll never forget.
"All I heard was a large explosion," said Wiltrout. "I thought something blew up or a bad car wreck."
Whatever it was, numerous resident around Connellsville heard and felt
it, too. For some, it was so intense it rattled the foundations of their
homes and knocked pictures off their walls.
Mysterious massive explosions are not exclusive to Fayette County. The phenomena are worldwide and nothing new.
"Back in the 1960s we used to call them 'sky quakes,'" says Stan Gordon,
who is a researcher in the field of the unexplained phenomena."In more recent years, there seems to be an increase in these type of reports."
Explanations abound - sonic booms, meteorites, kids blowing things up
- but not all of these earth-shaking, window-rattling events are
resolved.
"In March of last year, I received and I know other sources received
numerous reports of a very loud shaking and a boom that covered many
communities in Fayette County," Gordon said. "Around the same time as
the big boom were some unusual lights in the sky and then later a lot of
people reporting a lot of helicopter activity in the area. I've never
heard an explanation for that one."
Those who have experienced these enormous, mystery explosions say they're unnerving, whatever they are.
"I don't know, but it's scary because it's too close to home," said Wiltrout. - CBS.
January 20, 2016 - BRISTOL, CANADA - The noise has been blamed on various causes, such as submarines, phone masts, wind farms and gas pipes
Residents of Bristol are reporting the return of a mysterious hum which has been heard for more than three decades.
The "Bristol hum" made the news in the late 1970s, when residents complained to the council about a strange noise.
For the past fortnight, several Bristol residents have reported the low-pitched humming noise on social media.
In a YouTube video uploaded on 4 January, a man claims to have recorded a noise matching the description of the hum.
WATCH: Mysterious hum heard again in Bristol.
The noise has been blamed on various causes, such as low-frequency
submarine communications, phone masts, wind farms and leaking gas pipes.
"For the first few years I lost sleep, couldn't concentrate and was
unable to do anything. I was constantly in tears, which put a great
strain on my husband. It has changed me from an active, creative person
to a stifled, angry pessimist," a woman told The Independent in 1994.
Scientists now think the noise is caused by the pressure of waves vibrating on the ocean floor.
Researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France
said the pressure of the waves on the seafloor generates seismic waves
which cause the Earth to oscillate, producing the droning sound. - The Independent.
January 19, 2016 - UNITED STATES - The following video is a compilation of news reports about the mysterious loud sounds heard across the United States.
WATCH: Mysterious loud booms heard across the United States.
January 18, 2016 - VERMONT, UNITED STATES - This year's unseasonably warm winter weather mixed with waves of
bitterly cold air has brought a rare and often frightening natural
phenomenon back to Vermont—Cryoseisms. A cryoseism, or frost quake,
occurs after a sudden deep freezing of the ground, when the pressure
created from water expanding into ice abruptly causes stress fractures
in underground soil and rocks. The result of these fractures can produce
localized ground shaking and noises similar to an earthquake. While
usually alarming, frost quakes typically pose little physical harm
beyond occasionally causing a small crack in the ground where the frost
quake occurred.
On the night of January 8, 2016 and morning of January 12, 2016, several
Shelburne residents in the vicinity of the La Platte River near Falls
Road reported hearing mysterious sounds that many equated to an
earthquake. One resident, despite not living near a highway,
described the event as similar to the rumblings caused by a large
semi-truck driving nearby, while another on Front Porch Forum likened
her experience to a large boulder rolling towards her house. In each case, the startled residents described the sound as very loud and different from thunder, but no one at the time could explain exactly what caused the earthquake-like tremors.
After speaking with state geologist, Marjorie Gale, and confirming that there was no seismic activity on either of those days,
she explained that in 1955, geologists mistakenly reported frost quakes
in Burlington as minor earthquakes in the state's earthquake catalog,
and that local frost quakes could have caused the mysterious rumblings in Shelburne.
However, given their relative infrequency and generally minor effects,
the Vermont Geological Survey does not track frost quakes. As a result,
there is little historical scientific data regarding the geographic
locations, cause, or frequency of frost quakes in the state.
According to Weatherwise magazine, for a frost quake event to
occur, the ground must be saturated with water, have minimal snow
accumulation, and experience a large temperature drop from around
freezing to near zero degrees Fahrenheit over the course of 16 to 48
hours. The last reported frost quakes to happen in our area occurred
following an ice storm in December 2013. After a high temperature of
42°F and rain on December 29, 2013, the temperatures plummeted to a low
of 3°F on December 30, 2013, resulting in several reported frost quakes
throughout southern Canada, Vermont, and upstate New York.
Similarly, during both of the suspected frost quake events this year,
the high temperature measured 39°F before dropping into the low teens at
night. Furthermore, on January 10, 2016, the high temperature reached
53°F and we experienced over a half inch of rain that saturated the
ground and removed any potentially insulating snow cover. Therefore,
within a 48 hour period, temperatures dropped over 36°F exposing bare,
saturated soil to an arctic blast of cold air; near perfect conditions
for a frost quake. The same winter system that brought frost quakes to
Shelburne also reportedly caused frost quakes in Dodge County,
Wisconsin.
So, if the wild temperature swings of this winter continue, and you find
yourself startled by mysterious rumblings or booms in the middle of the
night, you may be in the epicenter of a frightening but benign frost
quake. - Shelburne News.
January 17, 2016 - KANSAS, UNITED STATES - Sedgwick County emergency dispatchers report receiving numerous reports
of explosions from various locations around Wichita Saturday.
Those calls began coming in at 1 p.m. They came from citizens at:
5400 Block of S. Santa Fe
1100 Block of E. 31st Street S.
5100 block of S. Ash
1900 block of E. Pine Bay
Several viewers sent KSN emails saying they heard a loud boom and felt
their homes shake. One viewer who lives near Hillside and Mt. Vernon in
southeast Wichita said in an email, "At 1:00 p.m. we felt the house
shake violently accompanied by a loud bang. Everything looks fine, but
we wonder what it was."
WATCH: Reports of booms in Wichita.
A person who lives in Haysville also reported the incident. "Shaking
of house loud boom sound around 1 p.m. Forest Ct. in Haysville." A KSN
viewer in Derby reported hearing a loud boom followed by the shaking of
her house at about 1:02 p.m. A Derby viewer said she spoke with a friend
near 47th Street South and Broadway who also heard what sounded like an
explosion. Another viewer who lives in the 3300 block of S. Oak St.
wrote asking if there had been an earthquake at 1:05 p.m.
It appears the boom was not an earthquake since no earthquakes were
recorded in Kansas or Oklahoma by the US Geological Survey at the times
the booms were heard. "I was told that we could contact command post
about what people heard," says McConnell Airman First Class Christopher
Thornbury. "And, they don't have any information on that event. Nobody
at the base has knowledge at this time of what it could have been."
KSN asked a McConnell spokesperson if it could have been a
"sonic boom" from an airplane. He said no one there knows what caused
the booms. While it remains a mystery, what caused the questionable
sound has a lot of people wondering."Just made you wonder what
it could be. I wasn't sure what in the world could make the house shake
like that besides an earthquake, and they were saying it's not, and I'm
like, okay, well then what was that?" said Wichitan, Aimee Brown.
Emergency dispatchers also told KSN News Westar Energy reports the
company has had no power outages. That was confirmed by a visit to the
company's online power outage map. Police and firefighters dispatched to
the various locations reported to dispatchers uncovered no signs of any
explosions or fires. - KSN.
January 16, 2016 - NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES - Friday night was far from the first nervous one for residents of Fair
Lawn, New Jersey, who have been plagued by loud booming sounds for about
a week.
As CBS2's Dave Carlin reported, the source of the nuisance is a mystery.
"We were, like, looking at each other like, 'What was that?'" said Danielle McManus.
It happened twice in the past week to McManus and her family. While
inside their home in a usually very quiet Fair Lawn neighborhood, things
went bump in the night.
"If we didn't know any better, it almost sounds like a cannon," McManus said, "It was so deep and just like, echoey."
Elsewhere in the neighborhood along the Passaic River, residents say
they have heard loud booms as early as 6 p.m. and as late as 2 a.m..
"It was, 'Pssh, pssh, pssh,'" one young boy said.
"I was like, 'Grr! Grr! Brr!' like that," another said.
"I heard the noise, so I came out here," added Susan Kuqi of Fair Lawn.
'Sometimes, you know, people dump garbage. It sounded like a garbage
truck."
Fair Lawn police searched for the source of the noises up and down the Passaic, including along the Paterson side.
Initially, they thought the noise was coming from this a PG&E plant
across the river from the neighborhoods where the noise complaints came
in.
Construction is going on there, but a neighbor closest to the plant said it is not the source of the booms.
"No explosions," said the neighbor, Stan Matthews.
Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove confirmed PG&E had nothing to do with it, and said the noises are a mystery.
"I've had everything from people telling me about fireworks to aliens," Cosgrove said.
So Cosgrove has extra officers deployed — more eyes and ears for when whatever it is disturbs the peace again. - CBS.
"A Singapore resident recently captured footage featuring bizarre
unexplained noises coming from the sky on January 2nd, 2016. According
to him, the sounds were heard for almost 2 hours. Can you explain it?"
WATCH: Strange sounds in Singapore - Part 1.
There is another video uploaded in Youtube, 2 days ago by
Richard Ong and he titles his video, "Strange Sounds Heard in Singapore
Night Sky - 13 Jan 2016". The eerie noise in his video sounds like a
trumpet.
WATCH: Strange sounds in Singapore - Part 2.
But such weird noises have been heard here before.
In January 2012, RobbieJohnson18 uploaded a video which he claims is
shot in the northern part of Singapore, and said, "I woke up to this
strange sound at around 9 in the morning, and then it ended 5 minutes
later. It was like a whirring sound you hear for kettles, but in this
case it's not, because the sound was everywhere, and it's extremely loud
and deafening. *There was no kettle in my kitchen. *This is pure
footage with no edits. *I'm using an iPhone 4S".
WATCH: Strange sounds in Singapore - Part 3.
Then on Christmas Day 2013, Youtuber Gayzel Yerro captured an unexplained strange sound in Tampines:
WATCH: Strange sounds in Singapore - Part 4.
And in May 2015, Norisham Yahya shared this video:
WATCH: Strange sounds in Singapore - Part 5.
Strange sound from the sky on January 9, 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
WATCH: Strange sounds in Hungary.
Strange noises from the sky in Bakersville, California on January 8, 2016.
WATCH: Strange sounds in California.
From America, to Australia, to Europe, such eerie noises have been heard across the globe for almost ten years but experts cannot exactly say what the noise is.
A British publication, Daily Mail, reporting
the unexplained global phenomenon in 2013 said that, "encounters with
the noise has even caused some people to have vivid nightmares for days
after the event".
These sounds are all different. And this makes me think they are legit.
But of course you decide. And why are they increasing these days along
with loud booms?
Trying to explain such strange noises from the sky, Youtuber 2FriendsPlayMinecraft (commenting on Gayzel Yerro's video) exclaimed ,"THE END IS NEAR , THE END IS NEAR , THE ENNNDD IS NEEEAAARRR"!
January 15, 2016 - EARTH - In the last couple of weeks, Dutch citizens have reported
hearing strange sounds in the sky. Martijn Mastenbroek from Pijnacker, a
town in the Dutch province of South Holland, was at home on the evening
of January 10th when he suddenly heard a peculiar sound.
"It sounded like trumpets," he recalls. "It lasted
about five seconds. No, it wasn't coming from the washer. It really came
from outside. My girlfriend heard it too."
Residents in other towns (Bleiswijk, Moordrecht, Lichtenvoorde and Beek)
and cities (Gouda, Almere and Heerlen) reported on social media that
they also heard these strange trumpet-like sounds. One resident from
Gouda was able to record the sound with a camera (see below). Another video of the sound was posted on Facebook by user 'Jeff Afca', who was in Almere at the time.
WATCH: Strange sounds heard over the Netherlands.
A week earlier, on the evening of January 3rd, residents in Casablanca, Agadir, Tangier and other Moroccan cities also heard similar strange sounds, 'coming from the sky.' Several citizens were able to catch the sound on film and posted recordings on YouTube:
WATCH: Strange sounds heard over Morocco.
The following day, on January 4th, a British man - Youtube user 'Stevie
B' - recorded the same kind of sound in Bristol, southwest England:
WATCH: Strange sounds heard over the UK.
We suspect that these sounds are some kind of transduced extra-low
frequency radio waves. While we wouldn't normally be able to hear them,
due to changes in our near-space and the broader cosmic environment,
they seem to interact with other electromagnetic factors in, on and
around the planet, causing them to be amplified and converted into sound
waves.
Although nobody knows for sure what these sounds are, they are almost
certainly related to each other, and together they constitute a new
natural phenomenon. Well, not exactly. There are ancient and
historical records of such sounds that are described in almost identical
terms - trumpets, moaning, metallic, sky noises. - SOTT.
January 10, 2016 - NETHERLANDS - Here is video presentation of strange sounds heard across the skies of Gouda, a city in the southern regions of the Netherlands.
November 27, 2015 - KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES - Many across central Kentucky heard or felt what was similar to an explosion on Thanksgiving evening around 9pm.
After investigating and gathering information, I believe there
is a high probability that this was a meteor or meteors that broke the
speed of sound, creating a "sonic boom".
A sonic boom is the sound
associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through
the air faster than the speed of sound.
May 23, 2015 - WYOMING, UNITED STATES - The streets of Cheyenne are usually pretty quiet, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing paranormal, until late Saturday night.
"I was called by the dispatch center with a siren like noise about 11:30
at night," said Rob Cleveland, the director of the Laramie County
Emergency Management Agency
A sound rang through the city that can best be described as a siren noise.
"I had them check the siren system that we control that the dispatch
center uses to see if there were any alerts, and they showed no alerts,"
said Cleveland.
So we began an investigation, researching and making calls to the big organizations in town.
We reached out to FE Warren, the Air National Guard, Holly Frontier, and
Emergency Management Services here in Cheyenne and got the same answer
from everyone.
"It was not our system that made the noise," said Cleveland.
We then turned to Facebook and heard from more than 100 people
who heard the noise. From the east side to the south side, and even
downtown, it was heard throughout the city.
Union Pacific was our last local reach as many people believed it could
have been train emergency breaks, but they responded with no recorded
incidents that night. But the search didn't stop there. People all over
the world have been hearing these noises and posting videos online
Suggesting everything from religious theories to geographical ones, and
yet the head of the geology department a the University of Wyoming had
no answer. So it's up for you to decide, is it just train brakes? Or
could something more paranormal be in the skies above Cheyenne? - CBS5v News Channel.
May 19, 2015 - CENTURION, SOUTH AFRICA - Residents from Centurion are baffled by a mysterious explosion that rocked parts of the area during the early hours of Sunday.
Numerous attempts by Rekord to establish exactly what had caused the
loud blast, which woke residents from their sleep, proved futile.
Residents from Rooihuiskraal, Wierdapark, Amberfield, The Reeds
and other connecting areas all heard the same sound and felt the
rumbling.
Some readers speculated that it was yet another ATM bombing, while
others believed the tremors had been caused by a light earthquake, but
authorities contacted by Rekord could shed no light on the cause or the
origin of what sounded to residents like a loud blast.
Vanessa Jacobs, armed response manager for Orange Fox Security,
said as soon as information came through about the mysterious explosion,
reaction vehicles had immediately been dispatched to various ATM sites
in the affected area.
"The reaction officers visited all the areas where residents said they
had heard the noise. All of the ATMs were however secure. One of our
reaction officers said it might have been what is commonly referred to
as a 'cricket' (CO2 cartridge) bomb. Although still unconfirmed, the
reaction officer saw a red light go up in the area followed by a loud
sound," she said.
Cricket bombs are improvised explosive devices, also known as cartridge
bombs or CO2 bombs. They are made by taking empty CO2 canisters (like
what might be used to power a BB gun), and filling it with gunpowder or
flash powder and attaching a fuse.
The police in Centurion also could shed no light on the blast,and
to date, no reports of damage to property or any injuries had been
received that could be connected to the early morning hour occurrence. - Centurion Rekord.
May 18, 2015 - SKY - A mysterious noise from the sky is continuing to baffle people all over the world - as well as giving those who hear it sleepless nights.
LISTEN: Can YOU work out what the sound coming from the sky is?
Sounding like a trumpet or a collective from a brass section of an orchestra, a selection of videos shot from the Canada to Ukraine, via the U.S., Germany and Belarus show strange goings on above us.
And the eerie sounds have been continuously heard at all different times and locations for almost a decade.
This recording of the trumpet-like sound shot in Germany shows a child in the street frozen with terror
This is the sound wave captured from the noise in Germany, that appeared to leave a child frozen in shock
The first video posted on YouTube recording the unusual, unearthly sounds, was in 2008 when a user recorded the strange sounds in the sky from Homel, in Belarus.
That same year another anonymous user shared the 'ear-deafening' sounds that they insisted 'were not a hoax,' from a quiet neighbourhood believed to be in the U.S.
Kimberly Wookey from Terrace, British Columbia in Canada first captured the alien sound in June 2013, and since then she has managed to capture several recordings of the noise with her most recent being on May 7 this year.
Writing on YouTube, where she posted the videos, Ms Wookey writes: 'On the morning of August 29, 2013 at approximately 7:30am I was awoken by these sounds.
'I shot out of bed realizing it was the same sounds I had heard before and I ran looking for a camera to try to capture them with. I came out into the living room to find my seven-year-old son awake and scared wondering what was going on. He had said the noises woke him up as well and shook his window.
As the wind shook the huge trees in British Columbia, the eerie sounds were recorded by one quick-thinking resident
This wave form shows how the sound was recorded when captured in Canada
'I managed to record three clips showing almost five minutes of these strange sounds. After it was over and I sat down at the computer to upload the video. After checking my Facebook I noticed a lot of locals had heard the same sounds again but this time it was far more widespread.
'I have no idea what these sounds are but it is pretty strange and I am glad that I was able to catch them this time and share what I heard. The sounds were heard again on Sept 8th at 6:30am so far we have confirmed reports of it being heard from town to the lake, 25km away.'
So what does the mother of four think the noises are?
'I personally do not believe this has any religious connection, nor do I believe it is aliens, graders, trains, construction, etc,' she added.
'I do believe it could be a geophysical phenomenon.'
Kimberly Wookey was so intrigued by the noise that she contacted her local construction company, but it wasn't them
Kimberly was so spooked by the sound coming from the sky she contacted her local construction company to try and get an answer.
Her efforts hit a dead end when the company replied informing her that none of their machines could make such a noise (see screenshot above).
Another recording of the sound was captured in Kiev, Ukraine in August 2011. An eyewitness said: 'The sound was extremely loud, with some people 30-40km from the recording also hearing it in other cities
'It was in the news with the investigation with specialists and scientists, but there is still no exact explanation.'
A quiet landscape in Kiev, Ukraine, was shattered when brass section-like sounds reverberated around
Encounters with the noise has even caused some people to have vivid nightmares for days after the event.
Aaron Traylor captured a recording in Montana in the U.S. on February 18, 2012, and said: 'I've had vivid nightmares ever since I posted the very eerie strange sounds that has Missoula talking and looking towards the sky; awful, awful nightmares.
'My wife woke me from a dream last night where she says I was screaming like she's never heard me scream before.
'I was taking my daughter out for her daily exercise along with my dog. I started to hear the sounds early on in our little adventure and the first time it was heard my dog perked her ears up and my daughter stopped in her tracks.
'That sound was identical to the one I had taped later, and lasted just as long. Now since I've been following this worldwide strange sounds phenomenon for some time, the whole 'End of the world' thing popped instantly into my head.
'What if this was one of those sounds? I had my phone ready to capture the next one just in case. Sure enough, five minutes later the sound had returned.'
Aaron doesn't subscribe to the theory that the noise is made by trains or aeroplanes.
'The Missoula rail system is one very loud and unpredictable beast. Trains connecting their loads to another is a sound very familiar to locals. Loud bangs and screeches can be heard from nearly 10 miles away at any given point throughout the day,' he added.
'Still, that doesn't explain the fan-like whirring sound that can be heard at the start of the recording.'
'I've lived in this neighbourhood for nearly four years and have heard all kinds of planes coming and going overhead and on the runway. I've never heard a plane sound like this before.
'My neighbourhood is very quiet and we were about three blocks away from any busy intersection during the incident. Can't say I've ever heard an automobile of any kind with that kind of noise.'
A video from Germany taken from a window pans onto a street and shows a child frozen still as the chilling sounds echo over the landscape. And in Salzburgh in Austria the noise is magnified across the Eastern Alps.
What people are speculating the sounds are online... Possible theories include:
Tectonic plates grinding - Tectonic plates are pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust (sial from silicon and aluminium).
Atmospheric pressure - Atmospheric pressure is defined as the force per unit area exerted against a surface by the weight of the air above that surface.
Trains shunting - Self explanatory - noise comes from trains in reaction to the track and overhead wires.
Construction - Building works, especially if going on at the same time across a specific area, can led to similar sounds.
Aliens - Can this be an alien lifeform in the sky, perhaps scouring out Earth?
HAARP weapon - Rumours persist that the U.S. government uses secret weapons in the sky for defence and weather modifying, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). This wouldn't explain the sounds in other countries however...
The Apocalypse and the Seven Trumpets of Heaven - Seven trumpets are sounded, one at a time, to cue apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision of the Revelation of Christ Jesus, by John of Patmos. Somewhat more worrying as it would signal the end of the world...
In Allen, Texas, U.S. back in 2012, the mysterious noise had a group of people stop what they were doing in a car park and look towards the sky, with one exclaiming: 'It's weird, I've never heard anything like that.'
Geoscientist David Deming from the University of Oklahoma has previously written about a phenomenon called The Hum – ‘a mysterious and untraceable sound that is heard in certain locations around the world by two to ten per cent of the population’.
Writing in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, he said that sources of The Hum could include telephone transmissions and ‘aircraft operated by the U.S Navy for the purpose of submarine communications’.
Aaron Traylor's calm walk out with his daughter and the family dog were interrupted by the chilling sounds
Visitors on Texas, the U.S stopped what they were doing to peer into the sky
A group of people were united in their disbelief at the strange sounds they heard in a Texan car park
According to Nasa, the Earth has ‘natural radio emissions’.
The Agency said: ‘If humans had radio antennas instead of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them "tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics."
'They sound like background music from a flamboyant science fiction film, but this is not science fiction. Earth's natural radio emissions are real and, although we're mostly unaware of them, they are around us all the time.’
For instance lightning can produce eerie-sounding radio emissions, Nasa added.
Earthquakes can also produce sub-audible sounds, according to seismologist Brian W Stump from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. - Daily Mail.
