Posted on 09/16/2021 5:40:35 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A loud explosion-like sound was heard across many neighbourhoods of Helsinki late on Saturday night, but the source of the bang remained a mystery on Monday.
The boom prompted discussion on social media, from people in the neighbourhoods of Oulunkylä, Kumpula, Käpylä, Arabia, Kulosaari, Metsälä, Meilahti and Kulosaari claiming to have heard the noise at around 11:45pm on Saturday.
Speculation as to the source of the sound has also been broad. Some have suggested that it could have been a meteor crashing into the atmosphere, an earthquake or even a supersonic bang caused by an Air Force fighter jet. However, these possibilities have been all but ruled out.
Helsinki police began receiving reports from residents around the Oulunkylä district shortly before midnight. People described the noise as a “hollow explosive sound” and “a large gunshot.”
A police unit was sent to Oulunkylä but officers were unable to find a reason that would explain the sound.
Meteor, earthquake, war games ruled out A group from the amateur astronomy association Ursa was also looking into the possibility that the noise came from a meteor incident. However, based on the images caught on the group’s network of cameras, there was no indication so far that the sound came from a meteor, according to Ursa spokesperson Anne Liljeström.
“The current opinion is that it was most likely not caused by a meteor, but of course that can’t be ruled out,” she said.
The loud boom was not related to Defence Forces operations either, the military agency’s communications chief Max Arhippainen told newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
He told the paper that there was no military flight activity at the time the bang was heard that could have caused it.
Some have also pondered whether the explosive sound may have been related to the ongoing Zapad military exercises in Russia and Belarus. However, Arhippainen said that would be difficult to imagine since the drills were being conducted so far away from Helsinki.
Still others have speculated that the mysterious sound could have come from a seismic event like an earthquake. However, seismologist from the University of Helsinki, Tuija Luhta, said that most likely did not happen.
“In all probability, it was not any type of earthquake. We still have a more detailed analysis of that day [to examine], but we looked at it quickly over the weekend and it doesn’t show any clear [seismic activity] at our stations in Helsinki,” Luhta said.
“If it was an earthquake, it would primarily appear in large seismometers and would have been heard,” she said, adding that was not the case.
They finally released the Arizona audit results?
Not very far from there to Russia.
Meteor ‘can’t be ruled out’.
My money’s on meteor.
It’s Jim Hoft
You messed up. The correct title is:
BOOM: Mysterious boom rattles thousands across Helsinki the capital of Finland
If Finland had a deep underground military base, they don’t any more.
In the early ‘70’s after the dam was built near Oroville, CA, the weight of the water behind the dam as the reservoir filled would occasionally crack rock strata in front of the dam and surrounding area resulting in a loud sound akin to a sonic boom. So there are sometimes explanations for the unexplained.
Does Finland have “refugees?” Maybe a “refugee” had a suicide vest prematurely go off.
A meteor that large would actually be visible from a satellite, but coverage (military or commercial) that far north in latitude is probably spotty. And if such an image exists, whoever owns it might not be talking about it.
Russia Russia Russia
Hai-yooooh!!!
I don’t know. Meteor just seems more likely than the other proposed causes.
Maybe it was a reindeer stampede.
Two years ago, I was in a rural town in Northern Finland for Mid Summer Holiday and was surprised when the train from St. Petersburg arrived. Never realized they are next door neighbors.
It was daylight all night. At 3 am I was taking photos and you could see everything as though it were mid day. That took some adjustment for me.
Beautiful country.
Heaven coming to earth!
Blowing up the underground base would certainly cause that sort of stampede.
On the local news tonight it was reported that there was apparently a ‘big boom’ in my region the other day. It seems to have been determined to be a meteor.
Maybe something broke up and the pieces went off on different trajectories.
The takeaway is these people were stupid to think they could get away with what they’ve been doing in those underground bases.
What were they doing underground in Finland - running too many high-powered saunas?
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