Sonic Booms? Yeah RIGHT!

[Al Today]

As a child in the 50s & 60s I remember the sonic booms from the cold war flying machines. Yes, yes the house shook. Bet never, never was there a flash of light. There is a difference between a sonic boom and and an explosion of matter conversion.

 

[Chrissy]

In reference to Perceval's linked article on the object hitting Bantam Lake, shows how much I pay attention to mainstream media. I live about five miles from there and the first I heard of this was on SOTT. :)
This is an article from the foothillsmediagroup.com on the subject. It will be interesting if the further investigation goes through. I know there's a lot of silliness in this article about what the locals think, but what caught my eye was the last bit about the Goshen resident who saw the same thing at the same place. I actually know this man's wife and plan on asking her about it next time I see her.

By DANIELA FORTE For the Litchfield News

LITCHFIELD —As the buzz about the glowing green object that reportedly fell into Bantam Lake around 2 a.m. Tuesday, April 10 entered day two —and went international —the lark of a UFO story took on a more serious tone and also saw its silly side embellished.

At the same time the restaurant Lazy Frog’s in Morris offered a “Welcome Aliens” greeting on a sandwich-board sign announcing 99-cent coffee, and the luxurious Winvian inn and spa noted in an electronic mailing that aliens would prefer the “Stellar” midweek rates, a former head of a lake protection group was pushing various officials to investigate what happened—and what the implications are for Connecticut’s largest natural lake.

In contrast to the magnitude of the buzz —“Is there a UFO in Connecticut?”, the Daily Mail asked—what is known about the incident is spare. And the only rational explanation put forward so far speculates that the object was a meteorite that fell as part of meteor showers documented by the National Weather Service.

According to a report posted by The Associated Press, authorities said they didn’t find anything after a state trooper and another person reported the large object falling out of the sky.

The Republican American, which first broke the story in Thursday morning’s paper, reported that a person driving in Litchfield at about 2 a.m. Tuesday reported that a green, glowing object the size of a whale fell from the sky and crashed into Bantam Lake.

What made officials take the report seriously, apparently, is the fact that at the same time, an on-duty state trooper about 10 miles away in Warren called dispatchers to report that something fell out of the sky and landed near Bantam or Morris, the AP story said.

Morris firefighters made several passes up and down the lake in a boat, looking for a possible plane crash, but didn’t find any debris, according to the AP story, which said, “Authorities called off the search, leaving the mystery unsolved.”

Now, with area many residents of the region delighted by the diversion and some businesses playfully hoping to capitalize on the extraterrestial tale, others want answers.

The Bantam Lake Protective Association’s former president, Robert LaBonne, sent an e-mail to State Sen. Andrew Roraback (R-Goshen) and State Rep. Craig Miner (R-Litchfield), telling the legislators the he is receiving e-mails from as far away as Florida from folks asking what is being done to solve the mystery.

“With modern technology and the 911 service, I would think the State Police has the ability to trace that 911 call back to the owner of the cell phone,” said Mr. LaBonne in the e-mail, referencing the fact that the citizen who claim to actually see the object fall into the lake did not remain at the scene. “Once we have that person, hopefully he or she can direct us to the approximate location of the where this thing might be in the lake.”

Mr. LaBonne also said that if the object truly is the size of a whale, it should show up on the bottom with sonar depth identifying equipment that can be obtained via either the Coast Guard or state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).

Mr. Roraback in a phone interview Friday that he had spoken to State Police that morning, and that they are working to identify the person who made the 911 call, with the hope that the individual could provide details.

“I’m surprised that person hasn’t surfaced,” said Mr. Roraback, a resident of Goshen who is among the Republicans seeking the GOP nomination to run in theFifth Congressional District.

If it was a meteorite, Mr. Roraback noted that his understanding is that there is no cause to fear its impact on the lake or those who use it.

“I hope we have success. I am not sure who has the resources to conduct an underwater search, but we try to find out if that is possible,” said Mr. Roraback.

Also reached Friday, Morris fire chief Joel Skilton said he is inclined to believe that it was a meteorite, a possibility first suggested in a report posted by WTNH News 8, which said the National Weather Service said there was meteor shower in the area that morning.

“You have two different reports [of the same thing happening]. You can’t ignore it. You have to investigate it, you have to make an effort,” said Mr. Skilton.

Mr. Skilton was on the scene early Tuesday morning after being dispatched. He said Morris responders launched a boat from the former state boat launch on East Shore Road, and made a pass around the South Bay and then went north on Bantam Lake. There they met up with responders from the Bantam Fire Department on North Shore Road in Bantam.

“Nothing was found. There was a little breeze, but it was pretty clear,” said Mr. Skilton.

Mr. LaBonne said in another e-mail that the concerns being raised by people contacting him include the possibility that the “rock” or space junk contains radioactive material.

“My neighbor with twin 1-year-old boys has concerns about them swimming in water with a potential unknown hazard sitting on the bottom of the lake,” said Mr. LaBonne in one of his e-mails on the matter.

Mr. LaBonne said his employees who know he lives on the lake are asking him, “So what are they doing about it?”

“I think a formal search should be done, beyond the fire departments 2 a.m. lake patrol the other night, just to help put residents and the thousands of users on the lake at ease,” said Mr. LaBonne. “Most likely it’s nothing, but until a little research is done, they will still be concerned.”

Mr. LaBonne also contacted via e-mail DEEP Commissioner Dan Esty regarding the situation. In that message to the head of the state agency creating a new state boat launch on property along Route 209, Mr. LaBonne said Bantam Lake needs a lot of money to help fight the ongoing problem with weeds—and he said that any proceeds from selling the lake’s meteorite should be reserved for the good of the lake and not go into the state’s general fund.

“Bantam Lake is only 25 feet deep in the deepest [part] and even lower right now. I don’t know if the state has a base line for the lake bottom contour that they could compare a new sonar scan with,” said Mr. LaBonne in his e-mail to Mr. Esty, whose wife, Elizabeth Esty, is one of the Democrats vying to be the party’s nominee in the Fifth Congressional District. “I’ve been on the lake since I was born, in the ski club since I was eight and I have an extreme passion for protecting the lake for the generations to come.

Mr. Esty said in a reply e-mail to Mr. LaBonne that the DEEP is looking at is options with regard to the matter.

Mr. LaBonne said in a separate e-mail to Mr. Roraback and Mr. Miner that he has spoken to Bill Thomas of Integrated Environmental Management Inc. from Ohio, which run tests on radioactive material. Mr. Thomas felt with it being in the water it would be very hard to detect it because the water could dilute it or mask it, Mr. LaBonne recounted.

Mr. Thomas agreed with Mr. LaBonne’s suggestion to scan the lake bottom looking for a large object. Mr. LaBonne said if the state finds one, divers should go down and take a sample for testing purposes.

Mr. LaBonne acknowledged that it could take a long time and a lot of money to conduct a search and do testing on whatever is found.

“This is a very unusual situation, I am not sure any state agency has the resources or the expertise to conduct the type of investigation we would all like to see,” said Mr. Roraback. “Maybe we should start by seeing if anyone has a device to measure for radioactivity in the water, maybe we could also ask for water quality test.”

Mr. LaBonne also e-mailed Ruben Garcia, also known as “Mr. Meteorite,” who makes a living with meteorites said he wouldn’t hunt for it or spend any time at all looking for it, even if he lived in the area.

“Meteorites are not radioactive, nor are they dangerous in any way. I’m sure you could lick the side of it all day and not be harmed,” said Mr. Garcia in an e-mail.

Mr. Garcia suggested leaving it in the lake if it is a meteorite, and said that any possible scientific use was lost the second it entered the lake. He added that is very unlikely anyone would find it, and, even if someone did, it would be costly to remove it.

Meanwhile, folks in the region who were less worried about what exactly happened and what should be done next, were basking in the buzz of a good story.

Win Smith, director of sales and marketing at the luxurious Winvian inn and spa in Morris, said in an e-mail that the buzz had netted an increase in phone calls and Web traffic for the AAA five-diamond property.

“I honestly think that the glowing object was a meteor from the recent shower, rather than a space craft, but you never know,” Mr. Smith mused. “Regardless, some of our guests at Winvian for this weekend think this event is very cool and only adds to the attraction to our region.”

The cool factor—and the likely salutary effect on ratings—had Eyewitness News, the Connecticut CBS affiliate, andNBC Connecticut news crews out in the region Thursday afternoon looking for local reaction.

“I think it’s pretty exciting the possibility of a UFO, but highly unlikely,” said Litchfield resident Marie Doyon, who was also out Thursday afternoon at Bantam Lake.

“I’ve heard people talking about it, it was green glowing whale size of an object,” said Lindsey Vanyo, an employee at the Green Tomato Deli in Morris, which was formerly The Ripe Tomato and is now under new ownership.

Litchfield resident Tina Landau said she had just heard about it Thursday morning.

“It’s kind of freaky, and at this point nobody seems to know. It’s pretty wild,” said Ms. Landau, who lives about a mile from Bantam Lake. “I have a pretty open mind about things, but I’m still curious.

Morris First Selectman Barbara Bongiolatti said that she didn’t know anything about the incident until she heard about it from her highway foreman.

“I have no idea what it might have been or what it was about,” said Mrs. Bongiolatti.

Ms. Bongiolatti said the Morris firefighters told that they found nothing when they went out.

Goshen resident Bob Leigh called The Litchfield County Times late Thursday afternoon and to say that he and two friends saw exactly the same thing in the same spot two years ago around the same time.

“We looked at each other and said, ‘what the heck is that,’” recalled Mr. Leigh, who said it came out of the sky pretty much like a green blob.

“The whole horizon lit up that weird green glow and then that was it,” said Mr. Leigh.

 

[Ca.]

Some different, and similar observation's on Sonic Booms, and Anomalous sounds of Meteor's
International Meteor Organization
_http://www.imo.net/fireball/observations

Observations of Fireballs

Meteor sounds deserve special mention. Although they are noted only on rare occasions, they are important. The ``regular'' sounds are audible only after a few minutes have elapsed since the optical observation, as sound travels through air far slower than light. While recording the data described above you should be ready to listen out for these sounds. Meteor noises can reach the surface from any point of the trajectory lower than about 60 km and may consist of bangs or swishing sounds, or possibly other noises. However, there may also be noises heard synchronously with the meteor's optical appearance. These are certainly no hallucinations! Such anomalous sounds appear to propagate via very low frequency (VLF) radio-waves, and seem to be generated especially in the upper part of the trajectory. These waves of course propagate with the velocity of light and if there are dielectric media near the surface, such as massive objects or atmospheric electric activity, they can then be converted into sound waves (ReVelle, 1975; Annett, 1980; Keay, 1980; Knöfel, 1991; Keay, 1993); Keay and Ceplecha, 1994).

It is essential to identify and exclude other possible sources for supposed meteor noises, for example motors, airplanes, other technical sources, or animals. According to ReVelle (1975), meteor sounds may usually only be expected if a fireball is brighter than -8 mag (visual).

Fireball Observations

Most meteors seen in the course of an observing session are faint ones. Only a small fraction exceed magnitude 0 which are caused by millimeter-sized meteoroids. About one in 1,200 observed meteors becomes brighter than -5 mag, while only one in 12,000 reaches -8 mag (Rendtel and Knöfel, 1989). Bright meteors are called fireballs.
The definition of a fireball is somewhat arbitrary and in the literature the required minimum magnitude varies between about -2 mag to -6 mag. In the IMO Fireball Data Center (FIDAC), we regard meteors of at least apparent magnitude -3 mag (corrected for zenith position) as fireballs. By zenithal magnitude we mean the brightness the meteor would have if it had appeared in the zenith of the observing site. As an example, a meteor appearing like -1 mag may actually be a fireball if it moves only a few degrees above the horizon. The apparent brightness decreases with the square of the distance between object and observer, and furthermore, the absorption of the light is proportional to the optical pathlength as well. In the case of a near-horizon meteor, the distance to the observer is very large resulting in a strong reduction of the apparent brightness.
To put this way round: a fireball of -6 mag zenithal magnitude terminating about 50 km above Earth's surface will appear as a meteor of -1 mag at an elevation of 5 degrees above the horizon for an observer 600 km from the event. The zenithal magnitude for visual observations can be calculated using the formula:
M = m + 5 log (sin h)
where M is the zenithal magnitude, m the apparent magnitude and h the elevation of the event above the horizon.
So-called radio fireballs are meteors caught by a receiver using the forward-scatter method whose echo- duration is longer than 10 seconds. Due to the very complicated physical relationships, a straightforward conversion of the echo duration into a visual magnitude is not possible.

Other Persepctive's

SAO/NASA ADS Astronomy
Abstract Service DATE:05/1999
_http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999A%26A...345L..27B
Title: A space charge model for electrophonic bursters
Authors: Beech, Martin; Foschini, Luigi
Abstract

The sounds accompanying electrophonic burster meteors are characteristically described as being akin to short duration ``pops'' and staccato-like ``clicks''. As a phenomenon distinct from the enduring electrophonic sounds that occasionally accompany the passage and ablation of large meteoroids in the Earth's lower atmosphere, the bursters have proved stubbornly difficult to explain. A straightforward calculation demonstrates that in contradistinction to the enduring electrophonic sounds, the electrophonic bursters are not generated as a consequence of interactions between the meteoroid ablation plasma and the Earth's geomagnetic field. Here we present a novel and hitherto unrecorded model for the generation of short-duration pulses in an observer's local electrostatic field. Our model is developed according to the generation of a strong electric field across a shock wave propagating in a plasma. In this sense, the electrophonic bursters are associated with the catastrophic disruption of large meteoroids in the Earth's atmosphere. We develop an equation for the description of the electric field strength in terms of the electron temperature and the electron volume density. Also, by linking the electron line density to a meteor's absolute visual magnitude, we obtain a lower limit to the visual magnitude of electrophonic burster meteors of Mv~ -6.6, in good agreement with the available observations.

Meteor Sounds
_http://www.pibburns.com/catastro/metsound.htm

The flash of fireballs (bright meteors) is sometimes followed by thunderclap-like noises. Witnesses have likened the noises to cannon detonations, explosions. rolling thunder, small arms or machine-gun fire, fireworks, and roaring trains. The ancients often assigned the production of such "thunderbolts" to the same storm and sky gods who produced the more common forms of thunder and lightning.

The delayed thunderclap sound is reasonably explained as the arrival of the shock wave produced when an incoming meteoroid strikes the atmosphere. Rolling thunder or train-like noises are produced by turbulent air behind the meteoroid and the reflections of sound waves off clouds and the ground. Machine-gun like noises occur when the meteoroid breaks up in the atmosphere and each fragment causes its own shock wave.

Many witnesses over the centuries have reported that fireballs are accompanied by a low thunder-like noise coincident in time with the meteor flash. These sounds cannot originate acoustically since sound waves cannot not travel fast enough to be heard at the same time as the meteor flashes.

The best explanation for many of these simultaneous meteor sounds is offered by Colin Keay. He suggests the sounds arise by electrophonic transduction. The wake of the fireball traps its magnetic field which creates very long radio waves which travel at the speed of light. The radio waves engender audio waves by interacting with ground-level objects such as trees or spectacles. This is still a controversial idea even though the sounds have now been recorded by several researchers. The same principle may explain reports of auroral sounds, animal unease prior to earthquakes, and sounds heard prior to a nearby lightning strike.

The usual electrophonic explanation fails for some short duration "pops" and staccato "clicks" which accompany certain meteors. Luigi Foschini and Martin Beech suggest such short duration pulses are generated by a strong electric field across the shock wave propagating in the plasma formed by the catastrophic disruption of the meteoroid in the atmosphere

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MIAC
_http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/son-e.htm
MIAC is a volunteer group of geologists and astronomers which serves as the coordinating body for meteorite and impact reporting and research in Canada. It was formerly the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee to the Canadian Space Agency.

Abnormal Sounds Produced by Meteors
An interview with Peter Brown by Denis Pagé

... a phenomenon called electrophonics. What this is about is when you see a fireball of course the sound doesn't travel as fast as light! So normally you hear the sound two or three minutes or... ten minutes later depending on how far you are. But for many years, all the way back to ancient times, people have reported seeing fireballs and hearing sounds like crackling sounds or whistling sounds or swishing sounds; sounds like a jet airplane and so on at the same time they see the fireball. And for many years right up into the 1980's no one believed that it was a true phenomenon. They thought it was in the observer's head, it was their imagination and so on. And now there is a growing body of knowledge that suggests that the fireball emits a type of electromagnetic radiation called "Very Low Frequency radiation" in the tens of kilohertz range and what then happens is this: The electromagnetic radiation is given off by the fireball, and it is so intense that objects around the person like hair or steel objects like glasses or wire or wire-meshes of fences vibrate, actually physically vibrate, as a result of this electromagnetic field. And as they vibrate, if it is intense enough, this can actually produce the sound at a few tens of kilohertz at exactly the same frequency in the VLF as people hear normal sounds. Thus you end up with a fireball passing nearby and at the same time they see the object, they hear this whistling or crackling sound from the transduction of the VLF waves. And they're not actually hearing sound from the fireball but rather hearing sound from local objects vibrating in response to the intense VLF emission of the fireball; this is called transduction. And so people have heard these sounds for years, but without having been able to convincingly detect the accompanying VLF emission; but we have done that. In 1994 we went to France and we put up an antenna system that has a lot of gain in the VLF (plus filtering) and actually registered a bright fireball that was giving off Very Low Frequency radiation. This is strong proof that it is VLF emission which is producing the simultaneous sounds which people have been hearing for years. The theory behind the VLF emission is due to Colin Keay at the University of Newcastle in Australia; it is not what I consider a complete theory, more heuristic in nature, (even Colin would admit this) but it is the best we have at the moment. It goes something like this: the plasma train behind the fireball entrains the Earth's magnetic field and "distorts" this field and as the field relaxes after fireball passage, like a few milliseconds afterwards, the field unwinds and as it unwinds it emits the VLF waves. But the precise mechanism is not really well understood. More work needs to be done in this area of investigation. Electrophonic sounds are covered in a good article by Colin Keay in 1991 in "Meteoritics" where he talks all about the specific details: entry angles and what you need to produce it such as the turbulence that you need in a big fireball to produce VLF emission. So all meteorite falls don't produce it but BIG fireballs do." Our article on the detection in France appeared in Earth, Moon and Planets, v.68, (1995), pp. 181-188.

From New Scientist:4 January 2001
SIZZLING SKIES
_http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg20622.html

Listening to Leonids:Nov. 18, 2001,
_http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast26nov_1/
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2005/03/24/ast26nov_1_resources/story.mp3

Radio Observations
http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/audio/geminidecho.mp3

The European Radio Astronomy Club
http://www.eracnet.org/

 

[PAM2/3]

Y°

A long vidéo with many differents sound, but not always.
SKYQUAKES APOCALYPSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-a5gC3ywYk

Many kind of sounds, may be coming from hyperdimensionnal transformation of the earth..? Or "hypersonic" trains in underground tunnels, or sonic weapons again deep underground bases, part MILABS part no human at all...

 

[Ca.]

Could it be fireworks, exploding transformer, or could it be, dare i say (shutu your mouth).

UPDATE: Police Audio - Roslindale Mystery Booms and Flashes
"For the second time in three nights, police are investigating a mystery explosion in the area of Zeller Street."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENRHkY2wKLU&feature=g-all-u