Chili Night!!
I heard two instances that sounded like thunder to me. Yes, it’s 34 degrees and snowing, and I never saw any lighting. But thunder snow happens.
My husband thought it was our neighbors moving things around in their condo.
Mongomery county=Dayton=Wright Patterson AFB. The head of Air Force research and development. Possibly sonic booms?
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Probably those Russian fighter pilots having a little fun.
For at least the past couple of years, they’ve been around the world.......with no explanation.
It’s just the Military-Industrial Complex testing weapons on civilians. Nothing to worry about.
River ice breaking up due to AGW.
Probably special forces training. There is a private security firm operating here in eastern Arkansas doing training all year long. The locals hear loud booms off in the distance every few days. Eventually you get used to it.
When I was a farm kid in the 50s, my dad bought a couple of ‘Zon’ gun to scare crows off our corn fields. Mostly what it did was move the crows from our farm, to the neighbour’s farm… until they bought some Zon guns too! I see that this product still exists albeit they use propane now. http://www.daken.com.au/scare_guns.html I’ve often wondered what happened to our old Zon guns since the fam has long changed hands...….they sound like a cannon on steroids when they go off. If a person was ever to bring one of those on to a city street and light it up, it would knock everybody’s windows out for a block in every direction.
Any military bases nearby? Probably supersonic jets flying together. Sonic booms can be mistaken easily for an explosion especially over such a wide area. You would think that a two county wide boom would have a cause....such as a fertilizer plant or something. Therefore, I think sonic booms are likely the most logical conclusion.
Illegal (space) aliens leaving the USA in their UFOs...?
We heard a big boom in south central Ohio in October of last year. All the neighbors came outside. I though it might be a propane explosion, it shook the ground and everything. It was probably a meteor or some space junk. It was heard in several counties.
Da Mooche in the area with gas problems after another lobster, Wagyu steak feast?
Just the sound of the country collapsing.
Project Xylophone
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.
