ON MONDAY MARCH 17th, 2009
Mystery boom puzzles Staten Island residents
Staten Island residents are trying to figure out what caused a loud boom that was heard in at least six neighborhoods.
The explosion-like blast rattled windows of homes at about 7:55 p.m. Monday. It could be heard for miles.
Police and firefighters responded to numerous calls to 911, but the loud noise remained a mystery on Tuesday.
Police say they found no explosion anywhere in the borough and Con Edison reported no outages or transformer explosions.
sonic boom from incoming whatever debris
Interstellar speeding kids.
The Truth Is Out There.
IIRC, there was a similar event in TX a couple of weeks ago.
It was later said to be a meteorite.
Just wait till we're on the other side of it.
Whoooo Boy!
Soon we will have NO working satellites....
AND...
Space-junk re-entry fireworks every night...
How kewl is dat?
Do you recall the noises that were produced in the San Francisco Bay a number of years back? I believe it turned out to be some kind of marine life...
Alderaan?
What is a CSRA?
What mystery is there in a meteor?
I grew up close to Wright Patterson AFB and that was almost a daily thing in the 50’s.
back to sleep zzz
Very interesting. When I first read this I thought about the booms I heard yesterday in southern Maryland and the earth shaking.
It was a very low frequency bass sound followed by earth tremors. They happened several times, I thought they were earth quakes.
NASA has completed a delicate set of flight tests to measure how modifications to an F-15 jet can affect the way shock waves form. The results could help turn sonic booms into distant rumbles.
The measurements will be used to calibrate a computer model of shock wave propagation which will be a crucial aid for engineers designing a new generation of quieter supersonic aircraft. “We’re pretty close to being able to control sonic booms,” says Peter Coen of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, principal investigator for the agency’s supersonic research programme.
—New Scientist
Charleston, SC had these booms one summer in the early 1980s, and again a couple of years ago. Here is one possibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_of_the_Seneca
So that would be ....Texas?......Virginia? The station call letters begin with "W", so it can't be West Coast.....
Propane cannon.
It’s the Founders yelling at us from the great beyond.