Second Loud Boom Rattles Windows In NY Suburb...

May Have Been Meteorite (3/9/2009) There's been another loud "boom." This time it rattled windows in parts of Rockland County.

Nanuet resident Keith Wallenstein said the mysterious noise woke him up at about 5:15 Monday morning and sounded like someone had flown an F-16 over his house.

An earlier loud "boom" heard in Westchester County early Saturday might have been a meteorite.

Police and The Journal News got a flurry of reports from people in Scarsdale, Mount Vernon, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Eastchester and Bronxville.

Liz Holland of Mount Kisco says she was looking out her window around 12:30 a.m. Saturday. She saw a brilliant yellow object streaking through the sky.

An official from the Rockland Astronomy Club says yellow is a typical color for a meteorite.

Meanwhile, the curator of the private Macovich Collection made an offer on Tuesday, asking residents of the New York suburb for chunks of the barely cooled meteorite. Darryl Pitt is offering $10,000 for it.

Pitt is intrigued by the reports of a big "boom" and the brilliant yellow streak in the skies north of New York City.

Pitt says has spoken with Liz Holland, who witnessed the spectacle early Saturday. He is convinced that she did, indeed, see a meteorite fireball.

Pitt is offering $10,000 for the first person who turns over a kilogram of suburban space rock.

LAST WEEK The same BOOMS were heard in Santa Cruz and Oarnge County California...hmmm

This started to happen in Space beginning in 2006 with NASA

A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars. The balloon-borne ARCADE instrument discovered this cosmic static (white band, top) on its July 2006 flight. The noise is six times louder than expected. Astronomers have no idea why.

Scientists hear mystery boom from space
Radio noise from distant cosmos is six times louder than expected

There is “something new and interesting going on in the universe,” said Alan Kogut of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

A team led by Kogut detected the signal with a balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Diffuse Emission).

In July 2006, the instrument was launched from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and reached an altitude of about 120,000 feet (36,500 meters),

This quote you have, says — “A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos...”

You do realize that this “noise” is not noise in the sense that you or I hear with out ears. It’s not noise in that sense. It’s only “radio frequency noise”. They’re using terminology that one could possibly confuse with conventional “noise” that one hears with their ears.

Also — “Scientists hear mystery boom from space”

This, once again, is not really a “boom” in the sense that we hear a boom, with our ears. It’s only the “terminology” to get across the idea of a big increase in radio frequency waves hitting the instrument. It’s a “boom” in that sense.

And, instruments that detect this, can be “assigned” a “sound” so that we can “hear it” — but we’re really not hearing it, actually. What is happening is that we have created the sound, so that our ears can have some “representation” of it. It’s *not* the actual “noise” that is going on. It’s a sound produced from the instrumentation...

So, this is talking about something that we would never even know was there — as “humans” — using our normal senses. We only know of it existing as we have instruments that can measure frequencies in the range of what is coming from this area of space. If not for those specialized instruments, we would never even know they existed, and people on the ground would know nothing of it.

BUT, aside from that fact, of them being radio frequency waves, totally out of the range of perception of human beings — there are strange things that go on in the universe, things that people have been totally ignorant of — for centuries, simply because they had nothing to detect them. Now we’re able to detect things which have been there, but simply never known.

Now, while there may be a few “new things” — I really seriously doubt that there are “new things” in space, in the universe. These things have been there all along — it’s just that people never knew they were there.

And in addition to that, even if something “shows up” that wasn’t showing on instruments in the recent past — I believe it would be nothing more than either a “cycle’ that waxes and wanes, or something that was in another region of space (like a body that is moving through space) and simply is in our region of space now.

I wouldn’t be “looking too intently” for any particular set of “signs in the heavens” — because then people tend to jump on everything that shows up as a “sign” of something... :-)

If there are going to be signs that are the ones that the Bible is talking about, it will be *very obvious* and undeniable in retrospect, after it has shown itself — and people, in general, will recognize it as such, across the board. Short of having a general recognition and as something that is indeed something amazing (impacting people’s everyday lives), I wouldn’t think it has too much significance, other than something of scientific interest and understanding how the universe works.

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Now, in talking about this, I’m only talking specifically about what you’ve just reported in that one post, and not anything else that you’ve posted.

In other words, this particular phenomenon described, has nothing to do with sounds which are heard “by the ears” in the atmosphere.

For sounds produced in the atmosphere, it takes some kind of compression of the atmosphere to produce the “sound”. That’s usually some kind of “physical object” moving at speed and compressing the air in front of its movement (or some other phenomenon of the object which produces “noise” through other movement of the object [say, just for an example, the movement of propellers, on an airplane which compresses the atmosphere and produces the noise you hear]).

And radio waves don’t have any “mass” to be able to compress the atmosphere and thus produce the “noise” that we hear. If radio waves were ever to do that (if they could, and I’m not convinced if it could even happen, even in a huge amount of radio waves) — in such quantity as to be able to compress the atmosphere, the amount would be so huge, it would probably *fry* all life on the planet and we would all be dead as a result... LOL...

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