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FBI investigating mysterious late-night booms reported in Pennsylvania
cbs ^ | May 23, 2018, 10:52 AM

Posted on 05/23/2018 8:36:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A majority of the reported sounds have taken place between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.

"It's like an explosion and of course, you know, it actually shakes your house," said Janice Crompton of Haycock Township.

Local police municipalities have been receiving reports of the sounds since early April, with the most recent one happening shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday, according to Springfield Township police.

"I thought maybe somebody was making a tunnel, or space junk fell out of the sky," said Susan Crompton.

"It's a rumble. It actually, like, rumbles the ground like an earthquake would happen but with a loud like boom," she added.

There has been no shortage of theories, but there are still no answers as to why so many residents have been jolted by the mysterious and near-deafening boom sounds, which CBS Philly says have been reported in Pennsylvania's Upper Bucks and Lehigh counties.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: BenLurkin

Trump derangement syndrome.


21 posted on 05/23/2018 9:22:03 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: JudgemAll

It really makes you wonder what’s going on.


22 posted on 05/23/2018 9:22:21 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: BenLurkin
COOL IT WITH THE BOOM BOOMS OVAH DEY!


23 posted on 05/23/2018 9:24:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Paging Art Bell...


24 posted on 05/23/2018 9:25:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: BenLurkin

I can hear booms in the evening here too, supposedly the cadets and their artillery training at West Point about 20 miles north of me.


25 posted on 05/23/2018 9:25:19 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: a fool in paradise
Paging Art Bell...

Exactly. Who else could it be?

26 posted on 05/23/2018 9:29:09 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: ThunderSleeps

Up there yea,we used to shoot some stuff down the road.Could see it for a long time.


27 posted on 05/23/2018 9:29:14 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: BenLurkin

It is the ghost of John Lee Hooker.


28 posted on 05/23/2018 9:45:51 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

On a mission from God.


29 posted on 05/23/2018 9:53:57 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: BenLurkin

Transitory excretions past the ‘sound barrier’

So-called ‘sprint’ testing of the Delta blimp.


30 posted on 05/23/2018 9:54:58 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Publius
It must have something to do with aliens.
Just has to be aliens from outer space.
That guy on the History Channel says so.
Fox Mulder believes it too.
31 posted on 05/23/2018 9:57:24 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: BenLurkin

https://wifflegif.com/gifs/658641-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-gif


32 posted on 05/23/2018 10:33:10 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: LukeL

1850 short story by James Fenimore Cooper talked about this.

The Lake Gun

by

James Fenimore Cooper

“The “Lake Gun” is a mystery. It is a sound resembling the explosion of a heavy piece of artillery, that can be accounted for by none of the known laws of nature. The report is deep, hollow, distant, and imposing. The lake seems to be speaking to the surrounding hills, which send back the echoes of its voice in accurate reply. No satisfactory theory has ever been broached to explain these noises. Conjectures have been hazarded about chasms, and the escape of compressed air by the sudden admission of water; but all this is talking at random, and has probably no foundation in truth. The most that can be said is, that such sounds are heard, though at long intervals, and that no one as yet has succeeded in ascertaining their cause.”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2328/2328-h/2328-h.htm

I assume these booms in Philly are more ground-based and localized.


33 posted on 05/23/2018 10:34:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: a fool in paradise

The one and only.


34 posted on 05/23/2018 10:46:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Set out some sensors and do some triangulating.


35 posted on 05/23/2018 10:47:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin

As NYPD Detectives use to say “The FBI couldn’t find a Jew in the Bronx”.


36 posted on 05/23/2018 10:48:23 PM PDT by heights
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To: rfp1234

37 posted on 05/23/2018 10:51:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: IncPen

#37


38 posted on 05/23/2018 10:55:26 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: BenLurkin

Another story on strange booms from last month =>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3649665/posts

Youtube from that thread => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmqcBETmPU

Some on the thread thought it was a “hail cannon” or a “geese suppression cannon”.


39 posted on 05/23/2018 11:27:55 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Rebelbase

The Feds have all these triangulation assets, and it’d take just one single evening to get within a mile of the ‘booms’. My guess is that someone is running a ‘wildcat’ mining operation, without any approval process.


40 posted on 05/23/2018 11:29:30 PM PDT by pepsionice
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