Posted on 11/16/2014 6:43:23 PM PST by rdl6989
That, too. True.
Oh yea, definitely a sonic boom then. Especially heard over 2-3 counties.....no huge explosions reported. Has to be a sonic boom.
Does anyone honestly think that as technology becomes more advanced, more mysterious sounds, sights, and stuff would not become common place?
I’d say now with 99% certainty that it was at least 1 supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier. If I remember correctly single sonic booms are normally accompanied by “multiple” simultaneous “booms”, I’ve heard them at air shows. Sound just like an enormous explosion.
That thought brings up a curiosity of mine, that I’ve had for a decade or two.
I’ve tried to find the sound a nuclear blast(yield does not matter) makes out of curiosity. However, is it possible to record that sound without the equipment being damaged BEFORE the sound can be recorded? Because can’t find any audio, anywhere.
I heard it in Upper Peninsula, Mich. (K.I. Sawyer AFB)
Those boos were not booms they were the sounds of Boss Kett, James Cox, John Patterson and the other makers and molders of Dayton and the Miami Valley turning over in their grave over what has been allowed to happen to the Gem City.
I'm quite sure that Mr. Patterson's been turning over in his grave since the 1990's when AT&T chewed up and spun off NCR, turning faster in 2008-2009 when both city and state governments took their presence for granted. A mere "boo" would be unlike him, given the management style of Patterson.
A boom associated with John Patterson would have been followed by a unexplainable combustion of Rhine McLin's hat collection and the desks of about every government official that took the company's presence in Dayton for granted.
Evidently other Dayton area freepers to know so much of this citys history. I think it was Patterson who started the world trap shooting championship at the airport, then McLin had it shut down after so many decades of it being here. Dayton now is about to Ohio what Flint is to Michigan, so much lost. We did have one of the largest TEA party rallys in the nation some 6? years ago, maybe some of you were there.
I remember driving near the Huffman Dam which is in the path to the landing strips for Wright Patt and getting my first ever up close view (really up close to see the pilots) of a Stealth Bomber. Many fond memories of Wright Patt.
When I was over at my grandmother’s house could hear the training going on as they sang as they marched. My grandparent’s house was across the street and beyond the railroad tracks from the barracks on Central.
My father used to work on base and once had a tour of a famous hanger there. He told us the story of how they were told to walk on a colored line and the person that escorted him held a bell and rang it during the entire time they were in the hanger. He said he never saw anything out of the ordinary. He was privy to most places on base because he worked for a well known communications company that was deregulated during the eighties.
I also remember seeing and having taken pictures of the Challenger (might have been Discovery) piggied back on a plane that landed at WPAFB as it made it journey either to or from Orlando can’t remember now a days. The shuttle was lit up at night but we had to stay outside the gates and fence to see it. They allowed the public and press to take pictures from there.
When I DJ’d I did many receptions at the Officer’s Club. I got invited to play on the golf course but declined.
Some of the most fascinating things happened in the dark skies at night where lots of lights attached to god knows what moving in all sorts of directions happened over the base but you couldn’t really tell what was going on because all you could see were the lights.
Went back to the Dayton Mall last year. That is one place I will never ever go back to. Ah memories.
Dayton, Ohio. The Silicon Valley of the 19th and 20th centuries. From cash registers to “Pop top’ beer cans. From the largest printing plant in the world to refrigerators and gasoline nozzles it was invented or built in Dayton.
I grew up in Dayton in the and left in 1976. The last time I was there (2002) I did not recognize the place. Most of the landmarks were still there, but damn, most of the town looked worse than the city dump. I guess the Progressive have fixed it. Just like many other places.
Oh yes...arriving.
Interesting theory. I suspect if that were the case our utility company would know where those occurred and could solve the “mystery”.
I live in the area where this happened and what I heard sounded like thunder.
Someone possibly shooting Tannerite targets? Those targets set off amazing booms. Many people confuse them with bombs or sonic booms going off.
If you wanted to get the sound of a nuclear blast that would be very hard. anything electronic would be wiped by the EMP effect generated by the reaction. It would have to be purely mechanical E.G. like early phonographs- clockwork mechanism, recording vibrations on a cylinder or disk.
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Is this going on in/near urban areas?
It might be “anti starling hazing.”
These small explosive charges are set off to frighten the birds away from nesting on tall buildings.
Tube-type electronics would probably survive.
Suburbs. There is a very large flock of starlings around here though.
Our local paper is reporting some small power outages in the are, so blown transformers is a possibility.
With winter coming in sooner than normal, maybe squirrels are trying to nest in the transformers for warmth.
Yes, that’s what I thought....the EMP effect reaches the equipment first and fries it, and the sound doesn’t get picked up by the microphone.
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