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.
Your ignorance appears to be feigned.
I don’t know what goes on underground in Finland. Why don’t you enlighten us?
What goes on underground anywhere?
The answer is not something most people can stomach.
What I can’t stomach is people who get a kick out of suggesting that they are in possession of ‘secret knowledge’ that others are not.
What we’re talking about is widely and publicly known.
You know it, I know it and so does everyone else.
The difference is some still pretend not to know it.
I have no more time to encourage your effort to create a great mystique around yourself and your ‘knowledge’.
Why are you trying so hard to take the heat off the kabbal? It’s not about me, and you know it.
Wikileaks gave us the Podesta emails in 2016. We all know what they do to children.
I thought this thread was about a mysterious ‘boom’ in Finland.
(And I thought I told you that you aren’t worth my time anymore. Find someone else who buys into your nutty conspiracies.)
The connection is no mystery.
Have you been able to formulate an opinion about the Podesta emails?
It doesn’t take a genius to understand the Marina Abramovich thing.
Strangely, many out there seem intellectually unable to process these circumstances.
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