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What WERE the loud bangs being heard across Britain? Twitter bombarded by reports of mysterious noises as military denies RAF jets were the cause

• Sounds reported last night from Glasgow to Croydon, south London
• Many suspected 'rumbling' sound was due to RAF jets' sonic booms
• But Ministry of Defence said none of its aircraft had been scrambled
• It came on same day mystery explosion forced closure of A1 road

PUBLISHED: 20:30 EST, 29 November 2014 | UPDATED: 20:37 EST, 29 November 2014

Britons have been left baffled by a string of 'loud bangs' which shook windows and disturbed children and pets from Glasgow to Devon to London.

Hundreds of Twitter users reported the sounds between around 9pm and 10pm last night, but the Ministry of Defence said it did not know what could have caused them.

Many suspected sonic booms similar to ones which shook Kent last month when two RAF jets intercepted a Latvian cargo plane in British airspace.

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Mystery of the loud boom that shook homes over upstate New York AND the UK at exactly the same time despite being 3,000 miles apart

• On Saturday afternoon residents in upstate New York reported hearing a loud boom that shook their homes and rattled windows
• State police received numerous calls about the loud boom, but have no idea what caused it
• More than 3,000 miles away in the UK people took to social media to also report hearing unusual noises around the same time 
• One possible explanation is that the it could have been a meteorite breaking up in the atmosphere - which would result in a sonic boom 

A loud boom was reported by a number of people in upstate New York on Saturday afternoon at the same time as a similar noise was heard more than 3,000 miles away in the UK.

Residents in locations including Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Clarence and as far north as Niagara Falls took to social media to report the unusual noise at around 4:45 p.m. EST.

People described it as loud enough to shake their homes and rattle windows.

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'Just heard an explosion in Clarence that shook our house. Anyone else feel it? Our neighbors all felt it too,' wrote Lydia Von on the WGRZ Facebook page. 

For one resident in Alden, the noise was clearly a sign of extra terrestrial life.

'I was at home when a LARGE BOOM sound accrued. My house shook. Everyone in town heard and felt it. Some surroundings towns felt it too. There is no explanation,' the unnamed person wrote on UFO Stalker.

State police received numerous calls about the loud boom, but have no idea what caused it.

Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office on the grounds of the Buffalo International Airport did not report hearing or feeling anything at their office and do not believe that there could be a weather-related explanation.

FAA personnel at the control tower did not report seeing or hearing anything either.

One possible explanation is that the loud noise and ground shaking could have been a meteorite breaking up in the atmosphere, which would result in a sonic boom.

The U.S. Geological Survey did not report any seismic activity or earthquakes in the area at the time of the shaking, although a small earthquake did take place just two hours later.

The magnitude 1.5 quake was centered about four miles west of Lockport and happened at 6:27 p.m. local time. 

But Jana Pursley, a geophysicist with the USGS in Colorado, told WGRZ that it would be impossible to attribute the reported noises to the Lockport earthquake hours later. 

Any earthquake that registers 2.0 or less on the Richter scale is a microearthquake and no damaged was reported as a result of the quake, according to law enforcement agencies.

At the same time as residents in New York State reported hearing noises, hundreds of Twitter users in the UK reported hearing similar sounds - that also shook their windows.

An audio recording of the 'loud bangs', taken by a woman as she sat at home in Croydon, south London, might shed light on what is really behind the unexplained noise. 

Some people in Great Britain have suggested that unusual weather conditions might be the source, but the Met Office today dismissed the claims.

Others on Twitter suggested that it could be traced back to controlled explosions or military exercises. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists took to social media to claim that aliens were to blame.

Claudia Angiletta said that she was watching TV at home when the unexplained sounds started.

She told MailOnline: 'I was just at home watching TV when I couldn't hear the program due to the loud noises. It was very distracting as it went on for ages.

Unexplained booms along the N. American rip both before and after Saturday's trans-Atlantic boom on Nov 29 (cited below by Starr DiGiacomo).

Columbia, TN
Source of Strange Boom Baffles Residents, Officials (Nov 28)
http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/source-strange-boom-... 

Buffalo, NY
Loud Boom Shakes Homes, Source Unknown (Nov 29) 
http://www.examiner.com/article/loud-boom-shakes-homes-and-business...

Natchitoches Parish, LA

Loud boom Shakes Natchitoches Parish (Nov 30)

http://www.kpho.com/story/27511331/loud-boom-shakes-south-natchitoc...

Mystery Booms Rock Rhode Island (Dec 7)

Hundreds heard a mysterious boom Sunday night. Some heard it in Warwick and others in Coventry. But West Warwick residents heard it the loudest.

"At first I thought a car actually hit the house. It was so loud, the bang, everything in the house vibrated," Jeremy Dalnas said.

So much so, it caused a crack in Dalnas's front window, which he said was not there before Sunday night.

It was at about 8:20 p.m. when he and others in West Warwick heard and felt the thundering boom.

Dalnas said he even saw a flash of light first.

"You could see an orangey, yellow light. It was very bright. Almost like tow truck going by with its lights on, but then two seconds later after heard big bang," Dalnas said.

Across town, West Warwick resident Christine Shurtleff said Sunday night was the second time she's heard the boom in recent weeks.

"This felt like shaking, like the earth, so it made us think it was an earthquake," Shurtleff said.

Last year at this time, there was a small earthquake in Connecticut that caused loud booms. But officials at the Weston Observatory in Massachusetts ruled out any seismic activity in Rhode Island Sunday night.

National Grid said no transformers blew, and the Rhode Island National guard said it wasn't doing anything in the air.

West Warwick police said they took more than a dozen calls about the sound. Warwick police said they took three.

Andrew Shuster said he heard it leaving Warwick Mall.

"It was pretty far away, but at the same time it was so loud that my girlfriend, she ducked. My heart skipped a beat," Shuster said.

Local police departments said they found no source for the boom.

"I would like to know who's responsible for this. How do I get my window fixed now?" Dalnas said.

Still no clear answers 24 hours later.

"A second time and we still don't know what the first time was. You kind of wonder, what's going on?" Shurtleff said.

"I guess at this point it's still a mystery," Shuster said.

There was a similar situation in Cranston in December of last year, when residents heard a loud vibrating boom.

No definitive source was found.

And two years ago, also in December, residents in Warwick along the water and across the bay in Barrington reported a similar phenomenon. No clear answer.

This would make it the third year in a row for this mystery.

Sources

http://www.turnto10.com/story/27578346/source-of-mysterious-boom-re...

http://www.abc6.com/story/27578470/w-warwick-residents-sound-off-on...

Loud Booms Reported Across North-Central Florida (Dec 12)

People all over the state are scratching their heads after loud booms shook buildings and windows from Tampa Bay to North Florida.

Meteor? Sonic boom? Military ordnance testing? Reports by authorities appear conflicted.

“Confirmation has been received by The Gilchrist County Emergency Management, that the loud 'booms' heard today is a 'Weapons Systems Test' 150 miles off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. Tests will continue today and cease over the weekend and then resume Monday morning. The 'Weapons Systems Test' is a joint operation between the UNITED STATES NAVY AND AIR FORCE."

The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office says the source of the booms was likely a military exercise.

There is, though, one other intriguing possibility: a meteor. WCJB-TV in Gainesville quotes James Albury, with Santa Fe College's Kika Silva Planetarium. He says the boom could have been a “fireball entering the atmosphere.”

Whatever the cause, FOX 13 meteorologist Paul Dellegatto says this a good time of year for sound to soar.

Sources

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20141212/ARTICLES/141219856?Titl...

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27617919/meteor-military-test-ap...

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/military/2014/12/12/...

http://strangesounds.org/2014/12/mystery-loud-boom-shakes-and-baffl...

It’s actually the second mysterious bang within a week… And the first one remains still unexplained.

Riverside’s residents reported mystery booms and rumblings powerful enough to shake their homes on Sunday, December 28, 2014.

This is the second blast within one week after that experienced by many of Groveland and Riverside residents on Wednesday, December 24, 2014.

Riverside is located about three miles west of Blackfoot, while Groveland is about two miles northwest of Blackfoot. Riverside and Groveland have about 850 residents each.

Because no one reported Sunday night’s explosion to the Sheriff’s Office it’s unclear if the incident is going to be investigated.

A transformer explosion? An earthquake? A meteor disintegration?

So it will probably remain a sonic mystery.

Mysterious Boom In NE Pennsylvania (Jan 1)

Folks in Luzerne County heard a loud rumble, some even saying it shook their home.

It takes a lot to wake up 12-year-old Kendra Steltz of Lake Township.

“I was sleeping and all I heard was a big bang,” she said.

A big bang heard by more than just her. Many of you let Newswatch 16 know you heard the loud boom as well.

Police and emergency officials say several fire departments were dispatched to try to locate what the caused the boom in the back mountain but they had no luck locating it. They couldn’t find any damage either.

“Afterwards me and my daughter got into the car, and drove around the neighborhood to check out people’s houses and we saw nothing else so it was a mystery to us what it possibly could have been,” said Alice Steltz.

People in Lake Township say what’s even more surprising, is that no one has been able to figure out what exactly it was

Beatrice Price of Lake Township heard it and she felt it too.

“Everything vibrated,” explained Price. “It was short, it was a couple of seconds. Everything was vibrating.”

Vibrating so much, that her cows and pigs took cover. And that’s something she’s says she’s never seen happen like this before.

“We have people that hunt, and target practice. There’s guns, fireworks and it was way louder than that,” Price added.

There’s been plenty of accounts of what people thought they saw like a smoke trail in the sky. Nothing has been confirmed at this time. So for now, everyone is left to their ideas on what it could possibly be.

“It sounded like an explosion,” explained Price. “We have a gas place down the road. We thought maybe the gas place exploded but there’s no smoke or anything like that. So that was definitely not it.”

Source

http://wnep.com/2015/01/01/mysterious-boom-in-luzerne-county/

Mystery Booms NE of Los Angeles (Jan 2)

Several Victorville residents said they were awakened early Friday morning by at least three loud “booms” that were strong enough to shake the windows of their homes, but the source of the sounds remains a mystery.

The booms were heard at about 3:30 a.m. Reports came from neighborhoods near El Evado and Luna roads in Victorville and as far as Balsam Avenue on the other side of Interstate 15.

Local authorities said they could not identify the cause of the explosions.

Victor Valley Sheriff’s Station spokeswoman Pamela Hoffman said the station received reports of “loud booms” and officials checked the area and did not find anything. She said the cause of the noise was unknown.

If 911 dispatchers believed the noise was caused by fireworks then calls would have been transferred to local fire officials.

San Bernardino County Fire Capt. Jay Hausman and Engineer Jeff Allen both said they did not have any information about what could have caused the noises.

One resident said the explosion caused car alarms to sound in their neighborhood. Other residents posted on social media asking if an earthquake had occurred.

No significant earthquakes had been reported in the area in the last 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Society.

Source

http://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20150102/News/150109979

Unexplained Booms in Western Pennsylvania (Jan 4)

When the boom went off, about 8 p.m. Sunday, Diane Mangino was relaxing in her kitchen with her husband and her dogs.
 
"It's like a huge blast," she said. "You feel the house move and hear it at the same time."

Mangino said it was the third occurrence in about a week near her house. And she's not the only one to have heard and felt the phenomenon.

Residents in Lawrence County -- Ellport, Ellwood City, Wayne Township, Shenango Township -- have been burning up their Facebook feeds for at least a month with reports of the loud booms and accompanying ground tremors. And nobody can say conclusively what's causing them.

Brian Melcer, director of Lawrence County's Public Safety Department, said the county 911 dispatch center has been receiving calls about the booms and tremors, and police officers have been dispatched to investigate, to no avail.

Ray Beiersdorfer, a geology professor at Youngstown State University who has provided legislative testimony on seismic effects of the underground injection wells, said the earth's behavior in low-level earthquakes is consistent with the reports coming out of Lawrence County.

Sometimes low-intensity earthquakes can be accompanied with seismic activity, Beiersdorfer said, which results in a loud boom heard at the precise moment the earth begins to shake. But he said it's unlikely that the local booms -- at least the one at about 8 p.m. Sunday --  are being caused by an earthquake.

Beiersdorfer said neither the U.S. Geological Survey, an agency that monitors seismic activity throughout the nation, nor Columbia University, which also maintains seismic monitoring stations in the region, reported any earthquakes Sunday night of sufficient intensity to produce the phenomena described by Mangino and other county residents.

While no one can say conclusively what the booms are, plenty of people can say what probably isn't causing them. Amanda Witman, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, said the department is unaware of any permits issued for blasting in the county.

The DEP's Northwestern Pennsylvania office in Meadville has not received any reports of any phenomena in the region, which includes Lawrence County, Witman said. She urged residents to contact the region's emergency response unit at 814-332-6945, or 800-373-3398 after hours, the next time they hear the boom.

There were no thunderstorms in the region Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service, and meteorologist Brad Rehak said he is unaware of any other meteorological phenomenon that might create a similar effect.

Source

http://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/local_news/cause-of-county-s-...

Emergency Management Agency in Tennessee Investigating Ongoing Mystery Booms (Jan 6)

The “booms” have been occurring “for quite some time,” and the Morristown-Hamblen Emergency Management Agency is working to find the source of the noise.

Chris Bell, director of the Morristown-Hamblen Emergency Management Agency in Morristown, said they have had widespread reports from people in the community about mysterious vibrations and unexplained loud noises.

“People report windows shaking or a boom that sounds like a transformer booming, or something running into their house,” Bell said.

According to Bell, EMA is working with the Center for Earthquake Research and Information and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency to determine the cause of the disruption. CERI has deployed an instrument that detects seismic activity to help determine the source of the sounds.

“We had an instrument deployed here in town to figure out what those booms originate from,” he said. “The instrument is a seismic instrument that reads when there is ground shaking. We are still investigating.”

“There is speculation,” he said. “We are trying to rule out man-made (causes), and we believe that it could be something that is natural, but we cannot determine that until we have reviewed the data.

As of 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, more than two dozen people posted to the Morristown-Hamblen Emergency Management Agency Facebook page claiming they had experienced the disturbance.

The agency is asking the public to call 423-581-6225 and ask for Director Chris Bell or Teresa Ewing if they have heard the mysterious “booms.”​

Source

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/agencies-investigating-myst...

Poleshift.ning gets two links in a mainstream news media article on mystery booms in Indiana.

Mysterious Booms Shake up Elkhart County Residents (Jan 3)

Weather was ruled out as a cause of the booms, whose source remains a mystery.

Some things may go bump in the night, but the things that went “boom” over the weekend remain a mystery.

In a region full of trains and areas that draw hunters, loud noises aren’t unusual, except when they jolt residents out of bed or rattle windows and walls.

That’s what happened when people across northern Indiana said they heard mysterious sounds Saturday, Jan. 3.

Mike Ropp, who lives on the north side of Elkhart, said he heard two loud booms Saturday — one around 3:30 p.m. and another about 10 minutes later.

“I went out and walked around, looking on all sides for any sign of smoke or anything else that might indicate a cause,” Ropp said in an email Monday, Jan. 5. “I went outside again, as did three more neighbors. One of them had driven around the area to our east (and) saw nothing.”

Ropp said he lives close to a fire station south of the Simonton Lake area, which draws some hunters and fireworks. But Saturday’s sound was unfamiliar.

“It sounded more powerful than an M-80 (firework),” he said. “It was more of a percussion sound. It didn’t have the sonic boom sound — that’s different.”

Kevin Reed, who also lives in the area, said he woke up to the sound at 5:30 a.m. that day.

“I thought maybe someone had broke into my house or that it was a gas explosion,” he said.

About 10 minutes after that, he said he heard emergency cars rushing down the street to a fire at Dunlap Plaza.

Elkhart city and county emergency dispatchers said Monday morning, Jan. 5, there were no other reports of fires, explosions or shots in the area during the times residents reported hearing the blasts.

Other areas, including a township in northeast Pennsylvania, reported hearing the boom. WNEP, an ABC affiliate there, reported residents heard the loud boom Jan. 1, called emergency units but found no trace of the sound’s source.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED?

Yes and no.

During last winter’s extreme temperatures, parts of the country experienced “frost quakes” or cryoseism, according to Farmers’ Almanac. These reports of loud booms are caused by extreme low temperatures.

Cryoseism can happen when soil saturated by rain or melted snow drops from freezing to subzero temperatures in a small period of time, according to the almanac. As the moisture that seeps into the soil freezes, it expands and creates pressure on the bedrock, which can crack under the pressure, resulting in a loud popping noise. 

Reports of booms and shakes from last year in Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and even Canada were attributed to the extreme cold and frost, according to the L.A. Times.

However, the National Weather Service in Northern Indiana said that wasn’t the case this time.

“There was a lot of rain in the area and initially, we thought it might have been a rumble of thunder,” said Sam Lashley, senior meteorologist at the center. “But we’ve determined it was nothing weather-related.”

Even with Monday’s snow and extreme cold, Lashley said weekend temperatures “weren’t even close” to where a frost quake would happen.

SO WHAT WAS IT?

After hearing the booms, people posted their questions and working theories on social media.

1) Pole shift theory Enthusiasts at a blog that tracks natural disasters and space activity showed similar reports from December 2012 in Arizona, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Rhode Island, which the blog attributed to seismic activity and tectonic plate shifts throughout North America.
However, the U.S. Geological Survey reported no unusual activity.

2) Meteor shower connection
There were also questions about the Quadrantid meteor shower Saturday, Jan. 3. Ongoing meteor showers can cause loud booms when they break up above Earth, L.A. Times reports. The meteor shower didn’t reach its peak until Saturday evening, long after the loud noises were reported in Elkhart County. Calls to NASA’s public communication office were not returned.  

3) Large jet
Some on social media speculated the sound was from a large jet, though Kevin Rector, manager at the office of aviation at the Indiana Department of Transportation’s aviation team, confirmed in an email Tuesday, Jan. 6, that he had no reports of aircraft traveling in the area at supersonic speeds, though he said he heard of several towns putting on fireworks displays for the New Year.

Source

http://www.elkharttruth.com/living/2015/01/06/Elkhart-County-reside...

Mystery Booms Across Central Oklahoma (Jan 8)

Norman Police Department was flooded with calls around 11:30 Thursday morning from people all over the area who reported hearing loud booms and feeling vibrations.

Calls came in from all over central Oklahoma, including Newalla, Norman, Meeker, Lake Draper, Shawnee, Wellston, Agra and Parkland.

Anthony Young was just one of many who called 911. The mysterious booms rattled his home Thursday morning.

“We thought some nut was out here with explosives,” Young said.

Calls flooded in from Norman, Meeker and Shawnee.

Young said the booms shook his house so hard his windows rattled.

“It sounded like thunder but you could feel the ground shake and it was nothing like an earthquake. You know, we've felt earthquakes before, and it’s nothing like that,” he said.

Several law enforcement agencies are trying to find the source. The USGS said it didn’t get any reports of unusual sounds, and there were no earthquakes at the time.

Sources

http://www.koco.com/news/what-is-the-source-of-the-loud-booms-in-ce...

http://kfor.com/2015/01/08/strange-booms-heard-in-oklahoma/

http://www.normantranscript.com/news/experts-say-mystery-boom-not-a...

Mystery Booms in SE Iowa (Jan 7)

Ottumwa residents have been posting their concerns on Facebook trying to figure out what could be causing the loud booms over the last 2 weeks.

KTVO decided to see what people had to say, and here are some of the comments we got.

Jean said, "I live 30 miles away from Ottumwa and it happened at my mom's house two weeks ago around 9 pm. It sounded like a bomb went off, it shook my house, nick knacks moved. I have lived in this area 54 years. It has never happened before. Someone needs to find out what it is."

And one Ottumwa resident told us the noises are indescribable.

"It's just so unexplainable because everybody throughout town has been hearing it, but yet there's some people that live two or three blocks away that don't hear a thing," said Ottumwa resident, Dana Jones.

For now, it's a mystery yet to be solved.

Source

http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=1146705#.VK9V...

Mysterious Booms Continue in Central Oklahoma, Rattle Homes, Scare Livestock (Jan 9)

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Experts are baffled by the mysterious booms shaking a city in central Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Geological Survey research seismologist Austin Holland says a series of thunderous booms rattled the Norman area at 11:19 a.m. Friday and that numerous more were reported in the same place around the same time Thursday.

Both Holland and National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Day say they have no explanation for the booms that have been rattling houses and frightening livestock in the city on the southern edge of Oklahoma City.

Holland says there have been no earthquakes close enough to the area to be the cause of the booms. Day says a phenomenon known as cryoseisms (kry-oh-SY'-iz-uhmz) — which occurs when water freezes quickly in soil or rock, then expands and cracks — is also not to blame.

Source

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/09/us/ap-us-mystery-booms.h...

http://www.koco.com/news/experts-baffled-by-boom-in-central-oklahom...

Authorities Baffled by Mysterious Boom in Lubbock Texas (Jan 6)

Hundreds of residents in Lubbock heard a loud boom around 6:05 p.m. Tuesday evening. Immediately, viewers took to Facebook to try to pinpoint the location and express their concern.

One viewer commented on Facebook saying it shook her house in Wolfforth, and many other viewers said it sounded like a car had ran into their garage.

Based on the viewers feedback, KAMC has gathered that the boom stretched from 19th and Milwaukee to as far as 110th and Indiana.

The Lubbock County Sheriff's Deputies went to investigate the area around 1585 and Brownfield Highway after receiving reports of the sound of an explosion. But after scoping the area for 30 minutes, they left empty handed.

So, what was the source of the loud boom that almost everyone heard but no one saw? The answer seems to be unknown.

Lynn County Architectural Testing, Inc., a company that conducts blast tests for commercial companies, said it had not conducted a test during the time the boom was reported.

There have been several accounts of what people thought they saw, like a large cloud of black smoke in the sky, however nothing has been confirmed. So for now, everyone is left speculating.

Source

http://www.everythinglubbock.com/story/d/story/residents-react-to-m...

Mystery Boom Felt Throughout Cedar Valley Iowa (Jan 12)

Around 7:30 a.m. Monday, many people said a large boom could be heard and felt throughout the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area.

More than 60 people commented on KWWL's Facebook page, asking what it could have been.

"There was a huge boom," said Todd Seelye of Cedar Falls. "It shook the house, shook the windows, shook the floors. I thought it was a tanker car exploding or something."

We contacted the Cedar Falls Police and Cedar Falls Fire Department. Neither had any information on what the loud noise was. They said they would have been on scene if something happened.

We also contacted Cedar Falls Utilities because some believe it could have been some type of transformer or telephone wire that had possibly gone out, but if that was the case crews would have also been out. An official said that they had no outages or explosions on their end that would have caused the noise and rumble Monday morning.

Another theory we heard was an issue at the metal scrapyard. So, we stopped by the metal yard in Waterloo, who said that they produce noises all the time because of their auto shredder, but they said that nothing out of the ordinary came from the yard today.

KWWL talked to dozens and dozens of people this morning, with the majority of them saying they heard a loud noise. Some even said their homes were physically shaken because of it.

All and all, if it was an explosion or an outage, crews would have heard about it and been able to offer some insight on the issue. So at this point, we are all just left  wondering what the boom could have been.

Source

http://www.kwwl.com/story/27830376/2015/01/12/did-you-hear-a-large-...

Police Headquarters Evacuated After Mysterious Boom and Shaking (Jan 14)

The Downtown headquarters of the Columbus Ohio Police Division was evacuated for about 45 minutes yesterday while firefighters looked for the source of a loud noise that shook the building.

Nothing was found, said Sgt. David Pelphrey, a division spokesman. Early reports had said that an elevator dropped, but that wasn’t the case.

“It still remains a mystery,” Pelphrey said.

First-floor workers at 120 Marconi Blvd. heard the noise and felt shaking. Buildingwide alarms went off, prompting the evacuation at 12:15 p.m. Around 1 p.m., fire officials gave the all-clear to go back inside.

Source

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/01/14/police-hea...

Mystery Boom in Southern UK (Jan 16)

A large bang or explosion sound has been reported in the Swindon area.

Wiltshire Police said it received three calls from people between 06:24 and 06:38 GMT saying they did not know where the noise had come from.

BBC Wiltshire received calls, texts and tweets from people in Rodbourne, Old Town and Pinehurst who heard the sound.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said it was not thought to be down to an earth tremor, while the MoD scotched suggestions of a sonic boom.

The Wiltshire force said officers had not attended any explosion-related incidents.

A BGS seismologist scrutinised signals from the nearest seismograph sites to Swindon and found no evidence of a seismic disturbance of any kind, a spokesman for the society said.

"It may well be the case that people did experience something but, whatever it was, may have been so localised and too small to be recorded," he said.

Asked whether the noise could have been a sonic boom - the noise when jets break through the sound barrier - a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "There is nothing to suggest it was anything to do with us.

"There are no reports of activity from a military perspective."

Source

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30846272

Strange Booms Concern Georgia Residents (Jan 11)

Several Kennesaw residents were disturbed by loud, booming noises of an unknown origin on Sunday night.

The booms were reported intermittently between 6 and 9:30 p.m. Neither the nearby rock quarry nor the Tellus Science Museum could provide FOX 5 with a concrete explanation for the strange sounds.

Kennesaw police investigated the reports, but did not determine their cause.

Source

http://patch.com/georgia/kennesaw/strange-noises-concern-kennesaw-r...

Mystery Boom Rocks Southern Oklahoma (Feb 9)

Carter County residents are mystified by a powerful boom that shocked many as they started their work week.

"It was loud it scared me," said Kassidy Parrot. "I jumped."

Kassidy Parrott was just about to walk into her dentist's office in Healdton when she heard it.

"I got out of my car and all of the sudden there was this huge like, not even a bang more like maybe like a bomb went off," said Parrott.

But the mystery noise wasn't just heard in western Carter County.

Nearly 25 miles away, people in a neighborhood just west of Ardmore heard it too.

"It rattled the house," said Deidre Miller.

"I was kinda scared thinking, 'Is somebody breaking in?'" said Traci Chronister. "It was kind of weird because my dogs were going off."

Firefighters in Ardmore say it even shook their station on Rockford road.

"We all kinda looked at each other and wondered what it was," said Captain Chad Mansfield.

Mansfield says the boom he heard Monday morning was the loudest he's heard since joining the department 13 years ago.

"I've heard several small ones before," said Mansfield. "This seemed a lot louder. Like I said it did shake the station a little bit."

Seismologists with the Oklahoma Geological Survey say the boom may have been a sonic event.

But without a definitive answer, everyone feels like they're in the same boat.

"Scared the living daylights out of me," said Parrott.

Source

http://www.kten.com/story/28066954/mystery-boom-shakes-up-carter-co...

Mystery Booms Capture Wide Attention in Central California (Feb 11)

Residents from across Mariposa county reported hearing a strange series of booms today.

So far, the phenomena defies explanation.

According to one report, the noises were loud enough to shake homes.

Booms were heard in Mariposa, Ponderosa Basin, Mt. Bullion, Midpines, Cathey's Valley, Lushmeadows and off Highway 140 near Yosemite.

Out-of-county reports came from Columbia, Jamestown, Raymond, Friant and elsewhere.

An information officer reached at the Lemoore Naval Air Station had no idea what might account for the booms.

Source

http://www.mariposagazette.com/news/2015-02-05/Front_Page/Mystery_b...

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/have-you-heard-myster...

A LOUD noise heard over South Shields has caused mystery and worry among residents

The noise heard in Jarrow has been likened to a jet aeroplane flying over head but it is not known what it is or where it is coming from.

Mary Finnigan, of Beverley Court, Jarrow, said lots of people have been talking about the strange sound since it started to be heard from lunchtime on Friday.

Mrs Finnigan said: “It reaches a crescendo and is quite frightening really.

“I’ve tried to get information from various people but no-one seems to know what it is.

“Many people have been looking to the skies. It sounds as though a plane suddenly flies over.

“It has caused some anxiety.”

Mrs Finnigan has contacted Rohm & Haas chemical factory, and Tedco enterprise agency to try and find out what it may be but to no avail.

She added: “I’ve never experienced this level of noise having lived here for over 30 years.”

Mysterious Quakes Rattling South Florida Homes (Feb 23)

Mysterious tremors have been plaguing Coral Gables residents repeatedly since the start of February.

The quakes are strong enough to rattle a cup of coffee but not spill it. Yet, no one seems to have an answer.

“These windows went rattling. The cat ran into the other room,” said Gables resident Matt Meehan. “My first thought was earthquake.”

Meehan said the chandelier was swaying back and forth.

“We’re not on a fault line, so what in the world was it?” he said.

 Boo Zamek, working at her Coral Gables home, felt the same thing earlier in the day.

“A very low subtle vibration,” said Zamek.

Coral Gables police said this isn’t the first time this has happened in the neighborhood.

“It’s happened three times in the past three weeks,” said Coral Gables police spokesperson Kelly Denham.

They sent officers out, but she said, “We can’t figure out what it is.”

“It’s concerning enough to call the police,” she added.

FPL spokesperson Bill Orlove doesn’t think his company has anything to do with.

“We did not have anything happen. It is not an electrical issue,” he said.

“It wasn’t alarming, it was just strange that’s all,” said Zamek.

And strange is the way it will remain as there are still no clear answers.

Source

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/02/23/mysterious-quakes-rattling-cor...

Don't see that anybody posted this story about the latest booms in Texas. Here's the link: http://irvingblog.dallasnews.com/2015/02/bombs-or-birdshot-mysterio...

As a side note, my husband and I have been feeling inexplicably extremely fatigued the last few days. Last night when I went to close up the chickens I looked at the western sky lots of cloud "ridges" extending south and west that made me think of Zeta Talk about stressed earth releasing particles. Anybody else think a good size earthquake is coming? My bones aren't hurting the way they did when Chile had their last big quake so I think if we get one it won't be that big, but I do think a large area will be affected.

Mystery Booms in Northwest Washington (Feb 25)

Quake map for Feb 21-27, 2015

The source of home-rattling booms heard in Port Angeles area on Wednesday remains a mystery.

“We're not finding anything,” said Ron Cameron, chief criminal deputy for the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.

Several who reported hearing the booms on Facebook said the sounds seemed to be coming from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Spokesmen from the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy each said Thursday their units have not taken part in any activity that could produce loud booms in the Strait on Wednesday.

They said they had no knowledge of any event on the Strait that could explain the explosions.

The first report appears to have been placed at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday to Clallam County emergency dispatchers from a resident on Strait View Drive, east of Port Angeles, who reported several loud booms.

At the same time, Michelle Kaake heard two booms while in her home on O Street in west Port Angeles.

“It vibrated the floor and rattled windows,” Kaake said of the first boom.

The second boom came about five minutes later, she said.

Facebook postings told of people hearing the booms from Deer Park, in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains, to Joyce, about 15 miles west of Port Angeles.

The 129th EOD Company from Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, which on Feb. 12 destroyed several pieces of naval ordnance that had washed ashore on the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge — which was suspected to be from Canada — was not in the area and has received no calls for similar services in the Port Angeles area, said Joe Kubistek, base spokesman.

Events on the Canadian side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca have been heard in the past in Clallam County.

But not this time, it appears.

“Our demo range was not active yesterday,” said Sara Helmeczi, spokeswoman for Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, which operates a demolition range on Bentinck Island, northwest of Port Angeles on the Canadian side of the Strait.

Could the booming sounds be coming from the earth?

Shallow earthquakes can cause loud booms, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“No one knows for sure, but scientists speculate that these 'booms' are probably small shallow earthquakes that are too small to be recorded,” the USGS website said.

A USGS spokesperson was not available for comment Thursday.

Sources

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Port-Angeles-residents-rattled-b...

http://mynorthwest.com/625/743442/Earthquake-tracker-for-Seattle-an...

Mysterious Booms Continue to Rock NW Washington (Mar 13)

Quake map for March 6 -13, 2015

A new round of booming noises has disturbed residents of west Port Angeles and Joyce, who say the mysterious sounds shake their homes.

The rattling noises were reported at about 12:21 p.m. Wednesday, almost exactly two weeks after the last round of booms heard on the afternoon of Feb. 25, and again at about
9:35 a.m. Thursday.

“It sounded like it came from the direction of the Strait [of Juan de Fuca],” said Jim Haugen, who lives on Milwaukee Drive in west Port Angeles near the bluffs and reported the Wednesday boom.

“We were in the house, heard the boom and the house vibrated,” he said.

“It sounds similar to a sonic boom, [but there were] no planes in the area,” he added.

Haugen said he has been hearing and feeling the booming vibrations at his home for 13 years.

On Thursday morning, reports of booms from Joyce to downtown Port Angeles were made on Facebook.

Speculation on the cause of the booms has included naval military exercises in the Strait, thunder, sonic booms from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island aircraft, hunters and small, shallow earthquakes.

“We don't know what caused the booms that people have heard, but I can tell you they were not earthquakes,” said Leslie C. Gordon, geologist and spokeswoman for the U.S. Geological Survey for the Pacific Northwest.

Gordon said she checked with the University of Washington, which runs the seismic network in the Pacific Northwest, to see if there had been any seismic activity in the area.

“It is clear that the 'boom' was transmitted through air, as there was very little coupling with the ground. We looked but could not see anything on our seismograms,” UW researchers replied.

Gordon and her colleagues speculated that the sounds were sonic booms caused by military jets.

“I am only guessing based on similar incidents we have had in California,” she said.

If it was a sonic boom, it wasn't from a U.S. Navy aircraft, said Anthony Popp, spokesman for NAS Whidbey Island.

The Navy strictly adheres to aviation rules on supersonic flight operations, which restricts supersonic operations to designated areas or over the ocean, more than 30 miles offshore, Popp said.

Spokespeople with other military units in the region have said they have had no activity in the Strait during the times the booms were heard.

Those include Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, which operates a demolition range on Bentinck Island northwest of Port Angeles on the Canadian side of the Strait, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, which provides a demolition team for military training ordnance that occasionally washes up on beaches.

Sources

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Mysterious-booms-continue-to-sha...

http://mynorthwest.com/625/743442/Earthquake-tracker-for-Seattle-an...

Loud "strange" noises and bangs heard across Crawley, UK

http://www.crawleynews.co.uk/Loud-noises-bangs-heard-Crawley/story-...

CAUSE OF NOISE?: People across Crawley have reported hearing "strange" noises and bangs last night (Saturday, March 7)

PEOPLE across Crawley have reported hearing constant loud noises all over the town last night.

Residents living in almost every neighbourhood have been asking what was the cause of the bangs which could be heard on Saturday night (March 7).

Aneliese Whittaker tweeted the Crawley News to say there were "strange loud sounds heard all across Crawley, Horley and Gatwick".

People have reported on social media that the noises sounded like a bomb being detonated, constant thunder and fireworks, or even like the sonic boom heard in parts of Kent and Sussex last October.

Earthquake Lights in South Russia (Mar 16)

An inexplicable white-and-blue flash was spotted lighting up the sky over the southern Russian city of Stavropol. A dashcam video has since triggered a heated debate over the origins of the mysterious sight.

Stavropol’s horizon offered a jaw-dropping view to those who weren’t asleep at around 00:39 local time (21.39 GMT on Monday). The soundless flash of light scared several people, as it made some streetlights in the city go out, while being accompanied by the flickering of lights inside apartments and houses.

According to the Hydrometeorological Center of the city, the phenomenon “can’t be attributed to nature”– rather, it could be anthropogenic. The source of the light is thought to have been located somewhere on the ground.

However power engineers have rejected a version suggesting a fault in the power supply line leaving the public clueless about the nature of the mysterious flash.

Source

http://rt.com/news/241629-russia-ufo-flash-light/

Mystery Boom Rocks Homes in SE Michigan (Mar 18)

Hundreds of people from Newport to Taylor flocked to social media after hearing a loud boom that shook their homes just before 9 p.m. Wednesday night.

After hours of police searching the areas where people reported the noise, nothing was found.

Police in Gibraltar, Huron Township, Rockwood and Monroe County were also alerted to the noise, but nothing was discovered in those communities either.

Sounded like a bomb went off,” Flat Rock resident Jen Emerick said. “I live on Palmetto.”

Dozens of others echoed her comments on the noise level.

“I live in South Rockwood and it was so loud here felt like a truck hit my house and my house is brick,” Ruth Apperson said in a Facebook post.

Fred Tanner said it was so loud that he felt it in his “insides.”

“Shook the house, and our guts,” he said.

Source

http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2015/03/19/news/doc550af2f95e...

Mysterious Booms in Berkeley CA - (Mar 31)

For weeks, residents in Berkeley, California have had a hard time staying asleep thanks to loud booms in the middle of the night.

“I’d say it was around one in the morning, scared the hell out of me,” Rachael Marzoline told KPIX-TV of what she heard. “I jumped out of bed.”

Marzoline told the news station that this boom occurred Sunday night, but Joel Bryant said he has heard them at least eight times within the last month.

“We’re puzzled by it,” he told KPIX. “It’s not as crisp as a gunshot. It sounds like an aerial bomb explosion.”

Berkeleyside states that residents have filed the most reports on March 3, 15, 17, 25 and 29. It’s unclear if there’s any connection regarding the days the sounds are heard. Most of the booms have reportedly taken place between 8 -10 p.m.

Sources

http://rt.com/usa/246053-berkeley-booms-mystery-sound/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/01/mysterious-loud-booms-an...

 #berkeleyboom

Ongoing Mystery Booms in New Jersey (Mar 31)

Mysterious, earth-shaking booms have been reported in recent weeks by dozens of Bordentown and Hamilton residents, and authorities are at a loss to explain them.

The latest boom jolted residents at 10 p.m. Monday. A closed Facebook group for Bordentown Township residents lit up with people asking each other, "Did anyone just feel that loud rumble?"

"Was in the garage and the garage doors both rattled hard and I could feel the rumble under my feet," was one of a dozen replies.

A similar online conversation unfolded on March 19 after the noise was heard around 9 p.m. Another series of reports occurred on March 17, a Tuesday. Some have reported hearing several booms in succession during the span of an hour.

Residents in adjacent Hamilton Township in Mercer County also reported hearing the noise.

Source

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2015/04/bordentown_city_resident...

Unexplained Roar Heard Across S. Wisconsin (Apr 19)

A roaring sound caught the attention of people across a widespread region of southern Wisconsin around 8:15 p.m. Sunday.

The sound seemed louder and longer than an airline plane would make, and it was heard in Beloit, Milton, Evansville, Albany, Monticello and Monroe as well as Janesville, according to Facebook comments.

One commenter from Brodhead said it made her house vibrate.

A 911 official checked with the National Weather Service in Sullivan, where officials had no radar contacts or weather events that might explain the noise.

Source

http://www.gazettextra.com/20150419/strange_roar_heard_sunday_night...

From Howards post below April 25 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=dXT8HqgZIIE

Strange Howling Noise Returns to Terrace BC (May 5)

The mystery behind spooky sounds in Terrace, B.C. has been reopened after the eerie noises were recorded once again.

On Tuesday, resident Melissa Harris was in her house, talking to her husband on the phone, when she heard the noises.

"It was getting louder, so I went to the window and luckily i caught it. It was not even a minute or so. I just stood by my window and taped it. In the moment I had goose bumps on my arm," she said.

Harris uploaded a video to YouTube, pointing out the noises were the same as recorded in three online videos posted in 2013 by Kimberly Wookey. On May 7, 2015, Wookey captured the bizarre sound on video again.

The 2013 videoes got millions of hits, sparking theories it could be sky quakes, the supernatural or an electromagnetic activity.

The City of Terrace said the noise was caused by a worker grinding down the blade on a grader.

The CBC asked the city if the same thing happened in this more recent case, but hasn't heard back.

In the absence of an answer, residents have resorted back to their hypotheses.

Harris doesn't believe it was a grinder.

"It just sounded like horns in the sky. I don't know people say trumpets, but to me it was just like a loud kind of eerie."

Source

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/spooky-sounds-in-ter...

Strange Howling Noise Heard Around the World Defies Explanation (May 16)

A mysterious noise from the sky is continuing to baffle people all over the world - as well as giving those who hear it sleepless nights.

Sounding like a trumpet or a collective from a brass section of an orchestra, a selection of videos shot from the Canada to Ukraine, via the U.S., Germany and Belarus show strange goings on.

And the eerie sounds have been continuously heard at all different times and locations for almost a decade.

The first video posted on YouTube recording the unusual, unearthly sounds, was in 2008 when a user recorded the strange sounds in the sky from Homel, in Belarus.

That same year another anonymous user shared the 'ear-deafening' sounds that they insisted 'were not a hoax,' from a quiet neighbourhood believed to be in the U.S.

Kimberly Wookey from Terrace, British Columbia in Canada first captured the alien sound in June 2013, and since then she has managed to capture several recordings of the noise with her most recent being on May 7 this year.

Writing on YouTube, where she posted the videos, Ms Wookey writes: 'On the morning of August 29, 2013 at approximately 7:30am I was awoken by these sounds.

'I shot out of bed realizing it was the same sounds I had heard before and I ran looking for a camera to try to capture them with. I came out into the living room to find my seven-year-old son awake and scared wondering what was going on. He had said the noises woke him up as well and shook his window.

'I managed to record three clips showing almost five minutes of these strange sounds. After it was over and I sat down at the computer to upload the video. After checking my Facebook I noticed a lot of locals had heard the same sounds again but this time it was far more widespread.

'I have no idea what these sounds are but it is pretty strange and I am glad that I was able to catch them this time and share what I heard. The sounds were heard again on Sept 8th at 6:30am so far we have confirmed reports of it being heard from town to the lake, 25km away.'

So what does the mother of four think the noises are?

'I personally do not believe this has any religious connection, nor do I believe it is aliens, graders, trains, construction, etc,' she added.

'I do believe it could be a geophysical phenomenon.'

Kimberly was so spooked by the sound coming from the sky she contacted her local construction company to try and get an answer.

Her efforts hit a dead end when the company replied informing her that none of their machines could make such a noise (see screenshot above).

Another recording of the sound was captured in Kiev, Ukraine in August 2011. An eyewitness said: 'The sound was extremely loud, with some people 30-40km from the recording also hearing it in other cities

'It was in the news with the investigation with specialists and scientists, but there is still no exact explanation.'

Encounters with the noise has even caused some people to have vivid nightmares for days after the event.

Aaron Traylor captured a recording in Montana in the U.S. on February 18, 2012, and said: 'I've had vivid nightmares ever since I posted the very eerie strange sounds that has Missoula talking and looking towards the sky; awful, awful nightmares.

'My wife woke me from a dream last night where she says I was screaming like she's never heard me scream before.

'I was taking my daughter out for her daily exercise along with my dog. I started to hear the sounds early on in our little adventure and the first time it was heard my dog perked her ears up and my daughter stopped in her tracks.

'That sound was identical to the one I had taped later, and lasted just as long. Now since I've been following this worldwide strange sounds phenomenon for some time, the whole 'End of the world' thing popped instantly into my head.

'What if this was one of those sounds? I had my phone ready to capture the next one just in case. Sure enough, five minutes later the sound had returned.'

Aaron doesn't subscribe to the theory that the noise is made by trains or aeroplanes.

'The Missoula rail system is one very loud and unpredictable beast. Trains connecting their loads to another is a sound very familiar to locals. Loud bangs and screeches can be heard from nearly 10 miles away at any given point throughout the day,' he added.

'Still, that doesn't explain the fan-like whirring sound that can be heard at the start of the recording.'

'I've lived in this neighbourhood for nearly four years and have heard all kinds of planes coming and going overhead and on the runway. I've never heard a plane sound like this before.

'My neighbourhood is very quiet and we were about three blocks away from any busy intersection during the incident. Can't say I've ever heard an automobile of any kind with that kind of noise.'

A video from Germany taken from a window pans onto a street and shows a child frozen still as the chilling sounds echo over the landscape. And in Salzburgh in Austria the noise is magnified across the Eastern Alps.

In Allen, Texas, U.S. back in 2012, the mysterious noise had a group of people stop what they were doing in a car park and look towards the sky, with one exclaiming: 'It's weird, I've never heard anything like that.'

Source

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3084260/What-...

The Daily Mirror also picks up the story:

A UFO or sounds from God - just what is that evil-sounding trumpet noise coming from the sky?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ufo-sounds-god---just-5723668

The sounds have been heard emanating from the sky in locations around the world, but no one knows what they are
An ominous noise coming from the sky has alarmed people around the world - and experts have no idea what might be causing it.

Footage has flooded YouTube from locations as varied as British Columbia in Canada, Allen in Texas and Queensland in Australia.

The sound, like something from Hollywood movies The War of the Worlds or Close Encounters of the Third Kind starts without warning and has people transfixed in the street as it continues.

And even the experts can't tell if it's aliens, God, the Earth or something else unknown.

Strange Noise, Puebla, Mexico May 29, 2015  (These sounds started at 16:35 hours in the afternoon).

Strange noises in the sky terrorized Tucuman - ARGENTINA

Friday June 12, 2015, 20:13 pm

According to experts, this phenomenon is known in some parts of the world as "The Hum" ("Buzz").

http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/641341/sociedad/extranos-ruidos-cie...

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIN3af4UfU

https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&...

Noises in the sky

A strange noise in the sky Tucuman was recorded today, around four in the morning, by a curious who uploaded the video to YouTube portal.

This phenomenon, which many readers claim to have heard- seems to be the same as that registered in several parts of the world and has already terrorized thousands of people around the planet.

This phenomenon, according to the site slogan excelsior , is known in some parts of the world as "The Hum", translated into Spanish, "The Buzz".

Mystery noise baffles Auckland NZ residents

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=1...

A house-shaking explosion noise has baffled Auckland residents.

The mammoth bang was heard by residents in the suburbs of Onehunga and Mangere Bridge about 10.30pm on Sunday.

One reader who wrote in to the Herald said they could feel the house shake.

The scary noise sounded "super sonic" and no one knew what it was, the woman said.

Residents turned to Twitter to find the source of the mysterious noise - but no clues have turned up yet.

Dean Taylor tweeted: "What was that Big Bang in Onehunga just now?"

Twitter user Peter Tainui said it might have been related to the mystery bang or explosion heard in the same area a couple of weeks ago.

"What/who the hell is the cause?" he asked.

Another loud bang stumped residents in the Onehunga, Three Kings, Mt Roskill, Epsom and Mt Albert area on May 30.

One Twitter user at the time said it sounded like a loud boom, thunder or an explosion.

A series of mysterious explosion noises were also reported across Auckland in June 2014, which turned out to be Defence Force training exercise at the Kaipara Bomb Range.

New Zealand Defence Force spokesman Geoff Davies said the noise did not come from the organisation.

He said the Defence Force had not received any calls about the noise.

An Auckland Council spokeswoman said there was no known record of calls about the bang on Sunday night.

Another loud bang was reported by central Auckland residents in May when a power line worker was injured in a substation accident, cutting power to homes.

But there was no power outages or incidents on Sunday night, Vector spokeswoman Sandy Hodge said.

The company had "a really quiet weekend", she said.

Mysterious Blue Light Appears Over Mt. Kinabalu (Jun 18)

A mysterious blue light appeared briefly over Borneo's Mt. Kinabalu.

A villager told a local newspaper: "The sky was bright as if there was a rainbow, but unlike a rainbow, it was all striking blue. We have not seen anything like this before."

The blue rays are known as the 'blue rainbow' and are believed to be a phenomenon that is usually associated with areas recently hit by earthquakes.

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake took place on June 5 in Mount Kinabalu and Kinabalu Park, a protected area and world heritage site, in the Sabah area, on the island of Borneo, Malaysia.

On social networks several people, such as Rina Ripau from the nearby village of Ranau, uploading images of the rainbow to their Facebook profiles when they started from last Thursday, a week after the Mount Kinabalu earthquake.

According to experts, the generation of this light involves the ionization of oxygen in some types of rocks due to high stress before, during and after earthquake and other seismic activities.

Source

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/585412/Villagers-fear-earthquak...

Mysterious Booms Rocking Toledo Ohio (Jul 15)

A series of underground explosions in one of Ohio’s largest cities has authorities and residents completely baffled.

The most recent boom occurred Tuesday afternoon in downtown Toledo – the fifth such occurrence in just one month.

People inside at least one building were forced to evacuate as smoke billowed out. The Toledo Fire Department responded and later determined that the source of the explosion was from an underground electrical pit.

“We don’t know. There were initial reports of a lightning strike,” TFD Battalion Chief Brent Wettle said.

“However, it was during a rain storm as well, so when you get a lot of water in those pits that can cause a short in the wiring, it could possibly be that as well,” Wettle added.

The blast was just the latest in a series of bizarre occurrences that have rocked the city in the past four weeks. The first explosion came on June 15. Four more, all of which were reported on different streets, have followed since then.

Toledo Edison, the local electric company, cut off power supply to the area affected by the most recent explosion. It said it plans to reopen once the problem has been fixed.

Representatives from the city of Toledo and Toledo Edison did not immediately respond to requests for comment on July 15.

Source

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/15/mysterious-underground-b...

Loud sounds in Portland OR

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Another in Kansas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqDkVYzDCR4

The mystery hum is back! Plymouth residents complain of 'strange droning noise'
Keyham, Devonport-  DO you remember the mysterious story about a low-pitched humming noise which left scientists baffled and caused residents to cover their ears?

Last summer The Herald reported on the strange phenomenon creating a stir across the Plymouth area.

We thought the nuisance noise had disappeared, but now it seems to be back and more disruptive than ever.People have reported hearing the noise at night in Keyham, Devonport, West Park and St Budeaux.

Pat Finnie, who lives in Normandy Way, St Budeaux, says she and her husband have noticed the “melodic, droning” sound returning.

“I have heard it several times over the last few weeks and then on Monday and Tuesday this week,” Mrs Finnie said.

“You begin to wonder whether it’s you, your ears, but my husband said he could hear it too, and he doesn’t usually notice it.

“My neighbours have been aware of it too, several people say they have heard the same thing.“It’s a very low, almost melodic sort of sound.

“You wake up and thought it was something in the house. You can’t say it’s loud, but it’s a nuisance.

“We don’t hear it in the daytime, only at night.”

The strange droning noise – which only two per cent of people can hear – was first reported in the 1970s.

People as far apart as New Mexico and Somerset have been complaining about the ‘mystery hum’ ever since, with some saying it has driven them mad.

Bizarrely, the irritating noise is usually heard in rural areas – and only ever indoors and is also apparently louder at night.

It has been blamed on everything from electricity pylons to sonar waves.

But boffins are still scratching their heads 40 years on.

Source: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/mystery-hum-Plymouth-residents-comp...

Mystery Blast Rocks Rural E. Michigan (Aug 24)

Darrell Cousineau said about 8:30pm he was shaken by an explosion.

"Pretty good size boom and, uh, shook the chair I was sitting in."

He wasn't the only one in the area that felt it.

"Oh yeah, it was a lot of concussion," said neighbor Mike Ballard.

Ballard said he heard the blast as well.

"I thought it was something blowing up," Ballard said.

TV5 reached out to local military and law enforcement, but no explosions were reported.

TV5's meteorologist said there was no seismic activity reported to suggest an earthquake.

"These events can happen, you know every year or two they get reported," Mike Murray said.

Murray manages the astronomy and planetarium program at Delta College.  He said the mysterious boom could have been a space object that suddenly disintegrated before hitting the ground.

"In some of those cases they are probably meteoroids that had exploded in mid-air," Murray said.

He said meteoroids are only confirmed through observation and so far people have reported only hearing or feeling the blast, not actually seeing anything.

"But there's no way of knowing if they were meteoroids or if maybe it was some other source," Murray said.

Dozens of others have commented on Facebook about the blast.

Darrell Cousineau said, "I don't think it was an alien, but you never know,"

Source

http://www.wnem.com/story/29878245/mysterious-blast-rocks-rural-area

http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.co.za/2015/09/apocalyptic-trump...

September 12, 2015

Apocalyptic trumpet sounds in the sky over Jakarta, Indonesie - Sept 11, 2015

Apocalyptic trumpet sounds were heard in the sky over Jakarta, Indonesie on September 11, 2015 from 06.00 to 07.00 pm

The strange sound caused a stir among locals. The unexplained phenomenon has been widely discussed on social media and local TV channels but it was unclear where it came from.

The eerie sounds have been continuously heard at all different times and locations around the world for almost a decade but there is still no exact explanation for it.

Mystery as ghostly sound of an air raid siren wakes hundreds of people across Swansea UK

Residents in Swansea (pictured is Swansea Bay and The Mumbles) have been woken up by a mysterious air raid siren noise

A ghostly sound of an air raid siren has been waking people in hundreds of homes in a city that was heavily bombed by the Nazis 75 years ago.

Noise abatement officials launched an investigation into the mysterious noise which has been heard more frequently across Swansea, South Wales, in recent months, but admit it cannot be traced.

Reports of the wailing sound have stretched back for more than a year, with many residents in area of Townhill comparing it to a 'war or old factory siren'.

One mother, Debbie Leyshon, 46, said: 'Everyone around here has heard it around dawn and into the early morning. It sounds just like a siren you hear in the war films.

'It always sounds like it is away in the distance but loud enough to wake you up if you are a light sleeper.'

People have taken to social media to share their own experiences of the strange noises.

Stella Elphick said: 'Been going on for at least the last two summers and through the winter. Day and night.'

Pete Rose added: 'It drives my mother insane and I often hear it when visiting her,' while Damian Holt said: 'Every morning around 4.30/5am till 6am or 7am most mornings.'

Debbie St Peter claims the noise has become so 'annoying' that she can't sleep.

And Sian Richards said: 'That noise has been tormenting me since the beginning of year.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3246348/Ghostly-sound-air-r... 

Loud Boom Remains Unexplained Along Mid-Atlantic (Sep 22)

The origin of a loud explosion heard throughout eastern Delmarva Tuesday night remains a mystery.

Social media was buzzing after reports a possible sonic boom originating on Chincoteague Island around 9 p.m.

In a post published on the Eastern Shore Fire/EMS/Police Breaking News Facebook page, it reads that the "original report was Mason Oil Co. on Chincoteague Island but nothing has been found anywhere on Chincoteague."

The post generated over 20 comments from people stating they felt what seemed like an explosion in Maryland areas like Snow Hill, Girdletree and Ocean City.

Chincoteague's EMS Supervisor Bryan Rush confirmed this morning that a unit from the island's fire company responded to a call received at 8:44 p.m. about an explosion with fire at the Mason Oil Company.

But after questioning the individual who made the report, responders determined the supposed fire was mistaken for the "glow of lights" outside the local business.

"I guess they associated the loud boom with the lights," said Rush.

After discovering no fire at the Mason Oil Company, Rush said units were dispatched all over the island to make sure there wasn't an isolated incident in a home.

"There was no fire or explosion anywhere on Chincoteague last night," he said.

Patrol officers on neighboring Assateague Island were alerted as well but no explosion-related incident was found there either.

Rush notified the Virginia Department of Emergency Management about the ostensible explosion, which he described as sounding like "a loud, long clap of thunder."

The Virginia department then reached out to Maryland's Department of Emergency Management about last night's incident, Rush said.

As of Wednesday morning, the EMS supervisor said the cause for the strange occurrence was "still unfounded."

"There's really no explanation for it," he said.

Sources

http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2015/09/23/mysterious-explosi...

http://www.wboc.com/story/30105615/loud-boom-heard-in-parts-of-delm...

Mystery Boom Shakes Southern Maine (Oct 1)

Source

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/01/news/york/quake-like-mystery-...

A city in the clouds captured on video over China. Similar mirages have occurred in the past also.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/612531/Did-parallel-universe-...
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta282.htm

Houses shook in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee after a giant fireball was reported exploding in the sky of the four US States.

Did you also feel the loud booming noise on November 19, 2015?

http://strangesounds.org/2015/11/giant-fireball-explodes-in-the-sky...

Social Media frenzy on the subject!

https://www.rt.com/usa/322786-meteor-fireball-four-states/

Giant fireball explodes in the sky over 4 US states on November 19 ...

The following videos captured on November 19, 2015 actually show a fiery fireball exploding in the Midwest and Southern US sky on November 19, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmg7ML_4Jw

And this one also at the time of the bang on November 19, 2015 exploding over Alabama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xM_I2NZoT0