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Alex Putney - Strange Sounds Heard Worldwide

[Bruce Dazzling]

Coast To Coast AM - 23.2.2012

Unexplained Sounds: In three half-hour segments on Thursday's show, investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe discussed the large number of strange and unexplained horn-like sounds filling the air since March 2011 and possible causes. The phenomenon surfaced after a number of videos were uploaded on YouTube from such divergent places as Norway, Costa Rica, Tennessee and Kiev, Ukraine. Recently, Linda interviewed two witnesses in Tennessee, who in separate locations, heard the Kiev-like horn sounds on January 18-19, 2012. One of the witnesses, retired real estate agent Cindy Smith was packing her car for a trip when the air was filled with the Kiev horn sounds coming from every direction. The strange sounds lasted about 30 seconds and left Cindy frightened, wanting to know what happened. A woman in Topeka, Kansas told Linda she was awakened on September 3, 2011 at her Perry Lake vacation home by the sound of "a television turned on in the distance with voices we could not make out." Yet, as she and her husband discovered, no television was on in their home when the sounds were heard. In January 2012, an Azerbaijan geophysicist named Elchin Khalilov released an article in which he suggested the strange sounds people are hearing are related to "acoustic-gravity waves caused by powerful solar flares and plasma emissions from the sun." However, when Linda interviewed NASA solar physicist David Hathaway he doubted that solar activity could be connected with the sounds. Linda raised an interesting hypothesis-- "what if some of the strange sounds heard around the world...were part of an American government test of what some have called 'voice of God' weapons?" Around the time of 9-11, there were rumors that the Defense Dept. wanted to try sending directed sound waves into the minds of Middle East terrorists, she noted. Linda also presented a report on the increased number of dolphins stranded and dying in Cape Cod & the New Jersey shore since January 2012. She spoke with marine biologist Trevor Spradlin who found the incidents to be unprecedented and perplexing.

[elfismiles]

Mar 20, 6:07 PM EDT
Mysterious booms baffle officials in eastern Wis.
CARRIE ANTLFINGER
Associated Press

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A series of mysterious underground booms have been rattling a small eastern Wisconsin city for at least two nights, baffling residents and local officials who were left stumped Tuesday after ruling out numerous theories, from earthquakes to water pressure problems.

The noises - described as rumbles of thunder, sonic booms or fireworks - were being reported in northeast Clintonville, about 140 miles northwest of Milwaukee, on Sunday night but quieted down at daybreak. The sounds started back up Monday night across a wider area and continued until about 5 a.m. Tuesday, said City Administrator Lisa Kuss.

"There's no warning, it's just `bam,'" Kuss said. "I would describe it as startling, an adrenalin rush. ... Your heart is instantaneously kind of racing because you are not expecting it."

Local resident Al Miller said he's been hearing rumblings for a couple weeks but chalked it up to thunder or didn't think much of it. But an especially loud boom woke him around 3 a.m. Monday.

"My house shook and it was just like a shock," the 71-year-old said. "I got out of bed and was like `Wow.' I thought one of my trees fell onto the house."

When he went outside and saw the trees still standing, he also noticed his neighbors' lights popping on because they'd heard it, too.

Harold Tobin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison seismologist, said there are similar reports of booms in different parts of the U.S. and world from time to time. Sometimes they're explained, sometimes they're not, he said.

"I'm as intrigued and as puzzled as other people are," he said Tuesday.

A seismic station near Clintonville has recorded unusual ground shaking since Sunday night. Tobin said such activity can be caused by quarrying, mining and heavy truck traffic, but since the city ruled out those sources - there are no mines or major construction in the area - the university and the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey will likely take a closer look at the station's data.

Kuss speculated that something within Clintonville may be causing the noises, since no one from outside the city of 4,500 residents has reported hearing them. No one has been hurt, and no damage has been found.

Authorities trying to track down the source found no gas in the sewers or problems with the city water pressure or wells, and nothing was found at an area landfill that might explain the rumbling, Kuss said. Engineers also checked a nearby dam and ruled it out, and there are no nearby industrial businesses or military operations making the noise, she said.

There also have been no recorded earthquakes in the area.

"It's clearly not obvious to anyone involved what is going on," Kuss said, adding that city officials were encouraging any experts who may have a theory to contact them.

Kuss said local officials were hoping to get audio or video if the booms came back Tuesday night. A meeting is scheduled Wednesday night at the high school in Clintonville so residents could ask questions.

Some residents were just as frustrated as city leaders, and a bit sleep-deprived after being woken up for two straight nights.

"When it first started happening it was kind of scary," said 21-year-old Jordan Pfeiler. "Then it was cool in a way. Now it's just annoying. I want it to go away."


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... _WISCONSIN

[DoYouEverWonder]

Clintonville bringing in seismometers to study mysterious booms
City spending $7,000 to track booms
1:00 AM, Mar. 22, 2012

Officials have tried to record a series of mysterious booming sounds that have roused residents from their beds in the past few days, but their attempts have come up empty.

City administrator Lisa Kuss, addressing a crowd of about 400 people Wednesday night at a public hearing to talk about the phenomenon, said the city will spend $7,000 to hire Waukesha-based engineering firm Ruekert & Mielke. The firm will place four seismometers around the city to try to locate the epicenter of the strange sounds.

If the firm finds the epicenter, the next step will be to pinpoint the depth and what is causing it. The cause is likely only a couple hundred feet under the earth's surface, Kuss said.

"It's possible we'll never have a definitive answer," Kuss told the audience at the Clintonville High School auditorium.

The big shakes have elicited big attention, and the room was lined with media — including reporters from CNN, NBC and a photographer taking photos for the New York Times.

Kuss displayed maps showing where calls have come in from residents reporting vibrations and booms — which they describe as sounding like thunder, underground fireworks or someone slamming a heavy door.

The city set up audio and video recorders overnight Tuesday, but didn't capture anything. There was at least one loud boom at 5 a.m. As of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, no other noises were reported.

The sounds began Sunday, and reports to police since then have come in from across the city of 4,600 residents. People should keep calling when they feel or hear something, Clintonville Chief of Police Terry Lorge said.

Some residents say their house has been particularly hard-hit.

For Holly Beringer, the vibrations have shaken her home, rattling pictures and dishes. She was in the crowd Wednesday with several of her neighbors, who said they didn't have questions for city officials but were curious to hear if they had any answers.

While city officials haven't pinpointed what is happening, they've ruled out many theories, Kuss said, including issues with the sanitary and storm water systems, changes in methane or propane gas levels, blasting from mines, military activity, criminal activity or construction.

They have consulted several geologists, including researchers at the universities in Milwaukee and Madison without any conclusions, Kuss said. She has received emails from across the nation and world, with people offering suggestions and reporting similar occurrences elsewhere.

A similar incident was reported in Marion, near Clintonville, about two decades ago, and in Georgia more recently.

"But it didn't last three days and three nights," Kuss said.

Kuss fielded dozens of questions from people who lined up at microphones in the auditorium to pose queries or list concerns.

The crowd's mood fluctuated between frustrated and thankful in the auditorium, and there was a round of applause for city officials' efforts.

Several scared residents asked whether — and how — they should prepare for a serious emergency.

The city can't predict if something bigger will happen, but Kuss told people there is no reason to consider evacuating the city and that there are fewer reported booms and vibrations each day.

Most people said it seems that any real danger is fading. The residents joked they should capitalize on the odd phenomenon by offering free shakes with hamburgers and making T-shirts claiming "things are booming in Clintonville."

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120322/GPG0101/203220518/Clintonville-bringing-seismometers-study-mysterious-booms?odyssey=mod|mostview

[Nordic]

That area is in the "Michigan Basin". And considering the cosmic weight of the water of Lake Michigan bearing down in that direction, god only knows what kinds of fissures and fractures and settling is going on there ....


And check this out:

(this is from the AEI, so have your vomit-bags ready:)

http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-t ... echnology/

Michigan has much to gain from safe fracking technology

Mark J. Perry | Detriot Free Press
September 26, 2011

Amid the bad news, there is an economic bright spot: North Dakota. All thanks to hydraulic fracturing...
Fear can't trump scientific evidence, especially when time-tested drilling technology can put thousands to work
North Dakota has a $1-billion surplus. Why the economic boom? Hydraulic fracturing.

With every passing day, the national economy seems to take a turn for the worse. Reports say that more Americans are in poverty than ever before, and the number of jobs may not return to prerecession levels until 2017.
Yet amid the bad news, there is an economic bright spot: One U.S. state is booming like never before. In North Dakota, the unemployment rate was an astoundingly low 3.3% in July; it hasn't been that low at the national level since 1953. At a time when other states are facing declining revenues and budget deficits, North Dakota's tax revenues are soaring, and it has a $1-billion surplus. In May, the state legislature passed a bill to reduce income tax rates for individuals.
Why the economic boom? Oil production, made possible by the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is unlocking vast supplies of energy from the state's Bakken formation and putting North Dakota on an economic trajectory that is unmatched elsewhere in the country. In July, North Dakota's oil production hit a new monthly high of more than 13 million barrels, which is twice as much as the state produced just two years ago.
"We shouldn't allow fear to trump scientific evidence, especially when the economic benefits of a time-tested drilling technology can put thousands of Michiganders back to work."
--Mark Perry

Michigan could experience a similar economic boom by producing more of its own oil and natural gas. The Michigan Basin is believed to hold more than 282 million barrels of oil, 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 83 million barrels of natural gas liquids. These vast energy resources in Michigan are recoverable.
The key is an advanced drilling technology called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Well operators force water, sand and trace chemicals down a well bore to create tiny fissures in hard rock formations and coax the oil and natural gas upward through the well. Fracking has been used in more than a million U.S. wells since the 1940s.
But certain environmental groups are spreading fear and some misinformation about fracking to stop this successful technology. They claim the fluids used in fracking are dangerous and can contaminate well water, and advocate more federal oversight in the apparent belief that states lack the ability to monitor and regulate this technology.
These groups are wrong to exaggerate the environmental concerns about fracking. Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told Congress earlier this year that there is not a single recorded incident where fracking has destroyed a drinking water well

[NeonLX]

RE: The Wisconsin booms...I don't know if it's related, but the Air Reserve wing in our area has been very active over the past few days, with F16s taking off frequently. I've really noticed them blowing out of here at night. They're going right over our house and touching off the afterburners.

Wonder if they are getting up to altitude over southeast WI and then breaking the sound barrier?

I dunno.

[DoYouEverWonder]

RE: The Wisconsin booms...I don't know if it's related, but the Air Reserve wing in our area has been very active over the past few days, with F16s taking off frequently. I've really noticed them blowing out of here at night. They're going right over our house and touching off the afterburners.

Wonder if they are getting up to altitude over southeast WI and then breaking the sound barrier?

I dunno.

I think people who live near military bases are use to that sort of thing. When I lived down in the Keys you would hear sonic booms at least once a day.

[elfismiles]

Mar 22, 10:14 PM EDT
USGS: Micro-quake near Wis. city bothered by booms
By DINESH RAMDE

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A minor earthquake occurred this week near the eastern Wisconsin city where researchers have been investigating a series of unexplained booming sounds, federal geologists said Thursday.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 1.5-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday just after midnight in Clintonville, a town of about 4,600 people about 40 miles west of Green Bay.

Geophysicist Paul Caruso told The Associated Press that loud booming noises have been known to accompany earthquakes. It's possible the mysterious sounds that town officials have been investigating are linked to the quake, he said.

Earthquakes can generate seismic energy that moves through rock at thousands of miles per hour, producing a sonic boom when the waves come to the surface, Caruso said.

"To be honest, I'm skeptical that there'd be a sound report associated with such a small earthquake, but it's possible," he said.

Those reservations didn't stop Clintonville City Administrator Lisa Kuss from declaring "the mystery is solved" at a news conference Thursday evening.

She said USGS representatives described the event as a swarm of several small earthquakes in a very short time.

"In other places in the United States, a 1.5 earthquake would not be felt," she said. "But the type of rock Wisconsin has transmits seismic energy very well."

The U.S. Geological Survey says earthquakes with magnitude of 2.0 or less aren't commonly felt by people and are generally recorded only on local seismographs. Caruso said the Tuesday earthquake was discovered after people reported feeling something, and geologists pored through their data to determine that an earthquake did indeed strike.

Local residents have reported late-night disturbances since Sunday, including a shaking ground and loud booms that sound like thunder or fireworks.

City officials investigated and ruled out a number of human-related explanations, such as construction, traffic, military exercises and underground work.

Clintonville resident Jordan Pfeiler, 21, said she doubted an earthquake caused the noises. She said the booms she experienced were in a series over the course of several hours and not continuous as she might have expected if they were caused by an earthquake.

Still, she said, "It's a little scary knowing Clintonville could even have earthquakes."

Steve Dutch, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said a 1.5 magnitude earthquake produces the energy equivalent of 100 pounds of explosives and could produce loud sounds.

But he was reluctant to describe Tuesday's event as an earthquake, saying the term is generally used to refer to widespread stress in the earth's crust. What happened in Wisconsin could be near the surface, perhaps caused by groundwater movement or thermal expansion of underground pipes, he said.

Still, Dutch said it was possible that the event could produce a series of sounds over time.

"If you've got something causing a little bit of shifting underground, it may take a while for whatever is causing it to play itself out," he said

Caruso, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist, said Tuesday's event was confirmed as an earthquake because it registered on six different seismometers, including some as far as central Iowa.

Jolene Van Beek, 41, had been jarred awake several times by late-night rumbling this week. When asked by telephone Thursday whether she thought the noises were caused by an earthquake, she joked that she was at a nearby lake "waiting for the tsunami to hit."

"Anything to do with earthquakes is going to freak people out," she said. "You'd never expect it in Wisconsin."

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Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... _WISCONSIN

[elfismiles]

Mysterious Booms Return To Clintonville – And They’re Louder
Dozens of reports overnight puts ‘earthquake’ explanation in doubt
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Police in Clintonville, Wisconsin were flooded with dozens of calls from concerned residents last night after the town was again rattled by a series of booms louder than anything reported to date, despite official assurances that previous reports of the noise were caused by a minor earthquake.


“Clintonville police say they received about 65 calls Tuesday night, from people reporting three or four loud booms. Officials say the calls came in from 10:35 until 11:40 p.m,” reports Fox 11.

According to authorities, the booms shook the same part of the town that was hit by a series of similar jolts over the last ten days, but last night residents said they were even louder. The booms occurred closer together and one lasted for a full 30 seconds, according to reports. City officials contacted the USGS in an effort to find answers.

“As of now, there is no confirmation by the USGS of any new seismic activity,” reports WBAY, Clintonville City Administrator Lisa Kuss again blamed earthquakes for the booms, despite the fact that seismic events are extremely rare in Wisconsin.

The booms were first reported on the night of Sunday 18th of March and continued for several nights before apparently abating.

City officials had hoped to bring closure to the mystery after the US Geological Survey reported that the town had suffered a minor 1.5 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday last week. However, residents reacted with skepticism, noting that the booms occurred before the earthquake and were also felt 80 miles away in a different town, a fact that contradicts the USGS’ assertion that “the 1.5 magnitude quake would have likely only been felt within a few blocks around its epicenter.”

The fact that the booms are continuing to rattle the town will only increase suspicions that the earthquake explanation was merely a cover story for something else.

Experts also expressed doubt at the official explanation, with Wisconsin-Madison geophysics professor Clifford Thurber suggesting the booms are originating from only about 100 feet below ground, ruling out the earthquake theory.

Speculation as to the true source of the booms has raged. Explanations vary between everything from secret military tunneling to carbon sequestration, which has been known to cause artificial earthquakes in the past.

Earthquakes in Wisconsin are extremely rare. The largest took place in 1947 immediately south of Milwaukee, but its magnitude was not recorded. The quake shook buildings but was relatively minor and caused no injuries. For the same area of the town of Clintonville to be hit by two separate earthquakes in the space of a week is virtually impossible, unless the cause is man-made.

http://www.infowars.com/mysterious-boom ... re-louder/

[Pele'sDaughter]

What about ground penetrating radar or something like that to rule out underground human activity/drilling. Such mysteries drive me crazy!

[NeonLX]

I think people who live near military bases are use to that sort of thing. When I lived down in the Keys you would hear sonic booms at least once a day.

True, that...but Clintonville is a long ways from the base (60+ miles). Those F16s can climb in a big hurry and by the time they are over Clintonville, they could easily be at 30,000 feet when/if they break the sound barrier.

I don't think this is what's going on, though...

[Canadian_watcher]

Not really sure where to put this but this thread is as close to a 'strange sounds' thread as I can find for now.. so...

I'm going to do my best to describe what I experienced last night. I'm struggling to be brief (as you'll see below, )

I was up late working and at about 2:10 a.m I went out onto my front porch for a cigarette. I love being the only one awake in my neighbourhood, which is densely populated and fairly central in the city. That being the case no one was up and about, all lights around were off and even the traffic on the nearest main road was extremely light. It was quiet and clear.

I was sitting there puffing away when I noticed a distant whistle. A short burst, like someone calling a dog. It happened at every fourth beat, so to speak. I ignored it. After about a minute another noise began, also at every fourth beat but two beats after the whistle. It also sounded distant and the sound was somewhat like a heavy paper bag being dragged along concrete. Since I heard no cars or footsteps, it suddenly occurred to me that both the whistle and the 'dragging' might be a very heavy snoring sound coming from a bedroom window nearby.

I was about finished my cigarette when a third sound joined the first two. This was the same 'dragging sound' only coming from a different location, it happened at about every fourth beat as well, not in line with the other two, and occasionally it carried on for a full four beats or so instead of the short burst. The sound began to move.

Soon it was quite loud, and at this point sounded almost exactly like the noise a walkie talkie makes - that shussing white-noise, static sound. Here's where it gets really weird. I sat there wondering what it could be - a distant vehicle? another snorer? an animal? I was listening to it sort of 'walk' closer and closer to my house. It sounded as if it were approaching me, and it was so quickly and obviously moving my way that I fully expected something (like a porcupine or another animal that might possibly make nocturnal sounds that I'd never heard before) to come around the back end of a car parked so that it blocked my view of the street. The distance between myself and the noise, at this point, seemed to be about 30 feet. It was loud enough that anyone could have heard it plainly and obvious enough that if people hadn't been asleep I'm sure they would have looked to see what it might be.

As much as I'd hoped to see a porcupine or something toddle out from the shadow of the car, nothing emerged. The noise was disembodied and now began to leap between locations, more or less triangulating on me. One, two, three sound to my right. One, two, three sound to my left. One two three sound in front of me. I was a little freaked out at that point, and just then the sound seemed to move a great distance further down the driveway. Then close again. it did this for a good three or four minutes.

I finally got up my nerve and walked out to investigate. As I did it rapidly moved ahead of me and before I got even twenty feet it seemed to have made it two blocks away. I went inside and listened out the window, but heard nothing. Not the whistle. Nothing.

It was the strangest thing I've experienced in quite a long time, and I cannot come up with a logical explanation. Anyone?

[Marie Laveau]

Honestly CW, I have to say you are one of the bravest people I've ever heard of. I don't know of anyone (including myself) who wouldn't have high-tailed it back into the house, locked the doors, and pulled down the blinds!

Were you missing some time when you went back inside?

[Canadian_watcher]

Thanks for the reply, ML. You know, only late in the day today did I consider the fact that I really didn't know how it had gotten to be 3:00 by the time I was getting into bed. I gave the idea of missing time a wee bit of thought, but no, I don't think so. I think I was just fascinated with this sound that time seemed to pass quickly. Thanks for asking though, because it's not all that 'far fetched' really.

I noticed the moon clearly and prominently across the path of where the sound came from and gave some thought to the possibility of a strange astrological function, seeing as the planets and the sun are in 'odd' positions lately. I also wondered if maybe there weren't some hidden security cameras on this property or something that might have been resetting or malfunctioning.

I honestly don't know... and I don't know where my nerve came from, except to say that i've raised my child now and I'm of an age where if I were to have been hurt it would have been worth it to solve the mystery. Truthfully I am not scared of much anymore but tests like this.. well, one never knows what one will do in reaction. I'm staying up again tonight and have my camera ready just in case. It's Friday though, and the ambient noise will likely be greater, not to mention that i doubt much would be recorded anyway given the nature of the sound. But.. a woman's got to try.

[Burnt Hill]

Sounds like you were about to encounter some earth spirit from a Carlos Castaneda story CW.
You promise you werent tripping?