The Hum.

[ilyinternet]

The one in Tampa Bay, in the video posted by Barracuda, is a lot higher pitched and sounds like a trapped wind, or a draught, and the one on the video posted by brainpanhandler is much faster and more irregular.

The sound I heard was heavy and deep and slow and the intervals were regular, mechanical. It was loud and pervasive, seemed to come from the sky (or more accurately, from everywhere outside), but there was nothing to see and nobody and nothing around for miles and miles. I remember it very clearly because I stood on my balcony for a long time, listening very intently, trying to figure out what it could possibly be, but was utterly baffled. I heard it again a few days later, when it didn't last as long, but otherwise never heard anything like it before or since.

This is frustrating. I can't help but wonder if it's something military-related. Most weird things seem to be, don't they?

Maybe something like this?

[AlicetheKurious]

sounds like slow-motion skyquaks

apparently there was a mystery-boom here in Portland a little less than a year ago. not sure I recall noticing it or not.

http://mysterybooms.blogspot.com/

BTW, unlike the "hum" which I only heard on two occasions in nearly 9 years, the "mystery-boom" is a much more frequent phenomenon, always during the day, never at night. Out of the blue, every few days or weeks or months (no pattern) there would be a sound like a big BANG! that would rattle the windows. Once again, my husband's explanation is that it's a fighter or spy plane breaking the sound barrier.

ilyinternet: no, the Kiev hum doesn't build up and stop at regular intervals.

I'm getting so frustrated discussing this, I want to stop until there's a hope of getting somewhere.

[Bruce Dazzling]

Audible lens flare.



It's got its own Wiki page!

The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people. Hums have been reported in various geographical locations. In some cases a source has been located. A Hum on the Big Island of Hawaii, typically related to volcanic action, is heard in locations dozens of miles apart. The Hum is most often described as sounding somewhat like a distant idling diesel engine. Typically, the Hum is difficult to detect with microphones, and its source and nature are hard to localize.

The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum", the "Taos Hum", or the "Bondi Hum".[1]

Description

The essential element that defines the Hum is what is perceived as a persistent low-frequency sound, often described as being comparable to that of a distant diesel engine idling, or to some similar low-pitched sound for which obvious sources (e.g., household appliances, traffic noise, etc.) have been ruled out.

Other elements seem to be significantly associated with the Hum, being reported by an important proportion of hearers, but not by all of them. Many people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared with outdoors. Many also perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body. Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum.[2] The Hum is often perceived more intensely during the night.

On 15 November 2006, Dr. Tom Moir of the Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand made a recording of the Auckland Hum and has published it on the university's website.[3][4] The captured hum's power spectral density peaks at a frequency of 56 hertz.[5] In 2009, the head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Dr David Baguley, said that he believed people's problems with hum were based on the physical world about one-third of the time and the other two-thirds stemmed from people focusing too keenly on innocuous background sounds.[6]

History

In Britain, the most famous example was the Bristol hum that made headlines in the late 1970s.[6] It was during the 1990s that the Hum phenomenon began to be reported in North America and to be known to the American public, when a study by the University of New Mexico and the complaints from many citizens living near the town of Taos, New Mexico, caught the attention of the media. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, a similar phenomenon had been the object of complaints from citizens, of media reports and of studies. It is difficult to tell if the Hum reported in those earlier cases and the Hum that began to be increasingly reported in North America in the 1990s should be considered identical or of different natures.[citation needed]

On June 9th, 2011, it was reported that residents of the village of Woodland, England are currently experiencing a hum that has already lasted for over two months.[7]

This phenomenon has also been reported since 2010 throughout Windsor and Essex County in Ontario, Canada,[8] where some residents claim it to be correlated with the time of day, or week, while others seem unaffected or unable to hear it.[9]

Explanations

In the case of Kokomo, Indiana, a city with heavy industries, the source of the hum was thought to have been traced to two sources. The first was a pair of fans in a cooling tower at the local DaimlerChrysler casting plant emitting a 36 Hz tone. The second was an air compressor intake at the Haynes International plant emitting a 10 Hz tone.[10][11]

Some possible explanations

Some explanations of hums for which no definitive source has been found have been put forth. These include:

Tinnitus

Generated by the body, the auditory or the nervous system, with no external stimulus. However, the theory that the Hum is actually tinnitus fails to explain why the Hum can be heard only at certain geographical locations, to the degree those reports are accurate. There may exist individual differences as to the threshold of perception of acoustic or non-acoustic stimuli, or other normal individual variations that could contribute to the perception of the Hum by some people in the population and not by others.

While the Hum is hypothesized to be a form of low frequency tinnitus[12] such as the venous hum, some sufferers claim it is not internal, being worse inside their homes than outside. However, others insist that it is equally bad indoors and outdoors. More mystery is added as some notice the Hum only at home, while others hear it everywhere they go. Some reports indicate that it is made worse by attempted soundproofing (e.g., double glazing), which serves only to decrease other environmental noise, thus making the Hum more apparent. Tinnitus is also generally worse in places with less exterior sound.

People who both suffer from tinnitus and hear the Hum describe them as qualitatively different, and many hum sufferers can find locations where they do not hear the hum at all. An investigation by a team of scientists in Taos dismissed the possibility that the Hum was tinnitus as highly unlikely.[13][unreliable source?]

Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions

Human ears generate their own noises, called spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, which about 30% of people hear. The people that hear these sounds typically hear a faint buzzing or ringing, especially if they are otherwise in complete silence, but most people don't notice them at all.[14]

Colliding ocean waves

Researchers from the USArray Earthscope have tracked down a series of infrasonic humming noises produced by waves crashing together and thence into the ocean floor, off the North-West coast of the USA. Potentially, sound from these collisions could travel to many parts of the globe.[15][16][17]

Media coverage

The Taos Hum was featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries.[18] It was also featured in LiveScience's "Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena", where it took first place.[19]

In popular culture

In a 1998 episode of The X-Files titled "Drive", Agent Mulder speculates that extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves "may be behind the so-called Taos Hum".[20]

[elfismiles]

Aaaah yes, the HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....

My interest in the effects of EMF on consciousness brought me towards stories of the hum. And of course, the possible connections to UFO and Entity Encounters.

Jeff collected a number of "hum of bees" type hum reports in his Spirit of the Beehive article:

Spirit of the Beehive by Jeff Wells
Sunday, December 04, 2005
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2 ... ve_04.html

And Albert Rosales captures a number of such reports in his cataloging of 1966 humanoid reports (see below after this Taos Hum article).

One of the earliest articles I found I archived at my site back in 1998:

MKC: MIND KONTROL CORNER
Putting the E L F back in ELFIS
http://www.elfis.net/elfol6/e6mkc.htm

ELF AND THE HUM

by Ron Holtz

Since 1991, people in the Taos, New Mexico area have reported hearing an
annoying, low-frequency hum, the cause of which has yet to be identified
(Ufologist, Vol.2, No.3, 1992). Recent reports suggest that the Hum is not
merely localized to Taos, but may be a nationwide, or perhaps even
worldwide, problem.

Some investigators suspect the Hum may be caused by the Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) submarine communications system. The frequency of the Hum
seems to be between 33 and 80 Hertz, while the USA's ELF system is believed
to operate at frequencies around 76 Hertz.

The US Navy first conducted experiments on ELF wave propagation and
environmental effects in 1969, using two antennas each 14 miles long located
at Clam Lake, Wisconsin. Experiments with this facility continued until
1976, when when actual ELF communications with submarines were demonstrated.
Shortly thereafter, the Navy made plans for an operational ELF
communications system using buried antennas so as to be hardened against
nuclear attack. This system, code-named Sanguine, was cancelled after
studies determined that the system would be vulnerable to nuclear attack.

Despite the cancellation of Sanguine, the Navy began development of an
above-ground ELF system using antennas 28 miles long, also located at Clam
Lake. This system, code-named Seafarer, was opposed by environmental groups
and residents of the area concerned about possible adverse health effects of
ELF radiation.

President Carter cancelled Seafarer in 1978, but the program was revived by
President Reagan in 1981. The revived ELF system employs antennas 56 miles
long on the upper penninsula of Michigan, in addition to the 28 mile long
antennas in Wisconsin. Each antenna is powered with a 660 kilowatt
transmitter. This system became operational in 1987.

The ELF communications system used by the United States uses two frequency
bands, 40 to 50 Hertz, and 70 to 80 Hertz. The principle operating frequency
is thought to be 76 Hertz, which seems to be one of the frequencies
associated with the Taos Hum.

The Commonwealth of Independent States is believed to be maintaining the ELF
communications system used by the former Soviet Union. The Soviet system was
probably in operation as early as the 1970s, and used two transmitters at
Riga and Gomel. The Soviet system broadcast at 8 Hertz, and perhaps other
frequencies as well.

In addition to the USA and the CIS, there is a British ELF site in the Glen
Cally Forest in Scotland, and a French system sited at Roshay. Both the
British and French systems were due to be operational prior to 1990.

As mentioned above, the ELF transmitting facilities in Wisconsin were
opposed by residents and environmental groups. A number of studies of
possible health and environmental effects were supported by the Navy, and
there was an exhaustive review of ELF-related research by the National
Academy of Sciences in 1976.

The National Academy of Sciences review looked at studies of the effects of
ELF on genetics, reproduction, cell growth and division, circadian rhythms,
electro-sensitive fish, insect behavior, bird migration, effects on plants,
soil organisms, and effects on neurophysiology and behavior of mammals.

Apparently, though, nobody thought to study the simpler question of whether
anyone could HEAR a hum from the ELF fields.

Despite a few studies that suggested that ELF fields do cause some
measurable biological effects, the NAS review panel concluded that the ELF
communications system was unlikely to cause any health or environmental
problems. Curiously, the studies on mammalian neurophysiology that were
reviewed by the NAS panel did contain some evidence that brain nerve cells
could be effected by ELF fields. In fact, it was assumed that ELF fields
could stimulate electrical activity in the brain, but it was also assumed
that these effects shouldn't be noticable because they would be far smaller
than the normal electrical activity in the brain. Despite these assumptions,
there was, in fact, some evidence that changes in brain nerve cell response
could occur even from very weak electrical influences, much weaker than the
normal nerve impulses.

The NAS panel concluded based on extrapolation rather than direct evidence,
that neurophysical and neurochemical effects would only occur for electric
and magnetic field strengths much higher than those expected to be induced
by the ELF system.

The National Academy of Sciences review seemed, at least at the time, nearly
20 years ago, to give the ELF communications system a clean bill of health.
It's not known whether any follow-up studies have been done since the ELF
communications system became operational.

Since the frequency used by the ELF communications system, around 75 Hertz,
is within the range reported for the Taos Hum, the ELF system seems a
natural suspect as the cause of the hum. However, it is not known why the
Hum was not detected until 1991 if the ELF communications system went into
operation in 1987. If there was a direct cause and effect relationship, one
would expect that the Hum would have been noticed several years earlier.
Furthermore, the Hum is reported to have frequency components ranging from
17 to 32 Hertz and higher, yet these are not frequencies in use for the ELF
communications system. Even if the 76 Hertz ELF system were contributing to
the Hum, the other frequency components would need to be explained. Perhaps
the 76 Hertz frequency match is coincidental. Obviously, further
investigation is needed to identify the cause of the Taos Hum.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

* "Taos, New Mexico area - and others - go on humming", Ufologist,
Vol.2, No.3, 1992.
* Jane's Underwater Warfare Systems, 1993-94, (Jane's Information Group,
Ltd., Alexandria, VA, 1993).
* Jane's Military Communications, 1993-94,(Jane's Information Group,
Ltd., Alexandria, VA, 1993).
* The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems 1991-92,
(Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1991).
* "Soviet Submarine Communications", Signal, p.65, November 1987.
* "Biological Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields Associated with
ELF Communications Systems", J.D. Grisset, Proceedings of the IEEE,
Vol. 68, No.1, p.98, January, 1980.

http://www.elfis.net/elfol0/mkconsp/taoshum.txt

The idling diesel engine variant was chronicled in the excellent book by researcher Greg Long (who later turned arch-skeptibunker and apparent a-hole) in his works:

Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima Ufo Microcosm
http://www.amazon.com/Examining-Earthli ... 0929343573

Encounters with Aliens on this Day
September 29

...

1978 - At 11:08 p.m. a woman fire watcher at Satus Peak, Yakima County, Washington sighted a cigar-shaped object with a row of lit windows. The object made a faint electric motor sound. She watched the object through binoculars for four minutes. (Source: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 132).

http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/September29.html

1966 HUMANOID REPORTS
Compiled by Albert Rosales
...

Location. Qualicum Beach British Columbia Canada
Date: late June 1966
Time: night
Charlotte Horsfall woke to hear a humming motor-like sound, and saw a very large luminous sphere in the garden. Then she saw "a tall humanoid clothed in a bright silvery metallic material" standing by her bedroom window in the moonlight. The suit also covered the man's head, but she could see his eyes looking at her. He raised his hand, and from it emanated a ray of light that shone on her chest, then her pelvis region. She felt nothing. Then the entity, the sphere, and the sound all disappeared.

Humcat 1966-22
Source: Saga UFO Report October 1976
Type: C

...

Location. Between Chatham & Rochester Kent England
Date: July 31 1966
Time: midnight
Kevin Kane heard a humming sound, and saw a spherical object 40-60 ft in diameter, with wing-like appendages & an antenna on the bottom, descend & land, then take off again. "Everything glowed when it landed. There was a man in black, 6 ft tall, who told me to say no more than I have said." The men in the crew wore black spacesuits, the women white ones. The man took Kevin's camera away.

Humcat 1966-29
Source: UFOIC Australia
Type: B?

...

Location. Harlingen Texas
Date: August 6 1966
Time: 1400
Three children aged 6-9 noticed a dark object shaped like an upside down cup. Then a square of yellow light appeared, like a door opening, and a small creature was seen in it, 3 to 4 ft tall, wearing black clothing that reflected a gold color. After some minutes the door closed, and the object took off with a low humming sound.

Humcat 1966-35
Source: USAF Blue Book case files
Type: A

...

Location. Terre Haute, Indiana
Date: September 1966
Time: 0300A
The pregnant witness had stayed up late doing some laundry and had falling asleep when she was suddenly startled awake. At first she laid still trying to discern if someone had entered the house before she made any move. Then in the doorway between the boy's room and her bedroom she saw a glowing white bright orange globe floating about 4 ft above the floor. It appeared to be so hot that it was almost totally white. Slowly she sat up. The object emitted a low hum and when she sat up, it conveyed a mental threat of electrocution if she moved any more (!). She felt it scan her children with beams that she did not consciously saw. Two of the boys were in the room it was in and it scanned her pregnant belly, then a child in another room. It seemed to convey that it discounted the child in the other room, a girl, but took note of the 2 sleeping boys and the infant in the womb, telling her that the baby was a boy. The it began to dim, turning from white to bright orange, to a faded dark orange, becoming transparent, then to gray and finally it disappeared. The witness then got up, looked around but saw nothing, then lie back in bed and quickly fell asleep again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: F

...

Location. Near Latacunga, Ecuador
Date: September 3 1966
Time: sunset
Manuel Pereira, 15 and Jose Sotuyo, 14 were walking along a path high in the mountains when they saw strange lights maneuvering in the sky. Manuel frantically signaled the UFO with his flashlight, using International Morse Code he sent the following message:
"Friend, please land." He repeated this message several times. A few seconds later they heard a faint whirring sound and the UFO descended to within a few feet from where the boys were standing. The craft settled just above the ground and three long tripod-like supports telescoped downward. The glowing of the UFO dimmed until it was a dull white light, and then a ramp opened and lowered to the ground. Then three tiny man-like figures emerged from the craft and began to walk stiffly down the ramp. The frightened boys were tempted to run but remained there. Just then they heard a loud voice that sounded strangely metallic speak: "Do not fear us. Stay and talk." Manuel and Jose, speechless, nodded. They stared in utter astonishment as the three little men in their suits of shiny brass-like material came toward them. A voice that seemed to come from all directions at once, asked them: "What are you?" The boys asked the little men where they were from but the question was ignored. For nearly an hour the questioning continued. The boys answered whatever the voice asked but whenever they asked a question they got no reply. Finally the voice inquired, "Would you like to come aboard our space craft?" Both boys agreed to go inside. The little men in their gleaming brass-colored uniforms and pear shaped helmets led the way up the ramp. They kept turning around as if looking to see if the boys were following. Their features in the helmets were obscured because of a cloudy vapor, which they seemed to be breathing so the boys had no idea what they really looked like. When they entered the craft they were surprised at the roominess of the interior. All around the craft were hexagon shaped sections like small cubicles. Tiny lights and buttons were to be seen on a console panel in the exact center. They saw no other little beings, although they had a strong feeling that other eyes were closely observing them. The little men asked the boys if they would like to go with them, and added that they would not be harmed. But the boys replied that their parents would be worried. After several more questions by the little men, the craft began to make a loud humming sound and the voice announced that it was time to leave, that perhaps they would visit them again. Manuel asked for a souvenir from them to prove their encounter. There was a peculiar high pitched humming noise and one of the little men came forward and held a small cylinder in his hand. They were told to take it as a token, that it was a small hand held light, that whenever they wished for the light to come on, they merely had to squeeze it. The little men demonstrated. There was a brilliant light form the lens. Manuel removed its own flashlight and gave it to the little men, as an exchange. Several minutes later on the ground the boys watched the saucer-shaped object rise up noiselessly and vanish in a wink. Just as the boys began to hurry toward their homes several helicopters swooped down from the night skies overhead, playing searchlights over the area. At the same time three Army jeeps came down the path at breakneck speed. They were interrogated numerous times by the military personnel and their strange flashlight device was examined and then taken away. Manuel Pereira and Jose Sotuyo vanished from their homes about a week before Christmas 1966, and were never seen nor heard from again.

HC addendum
Source: Robert Tralins, Children of the Supernatural
Type: G

...

Location. Skive Denmark
Date: September 15 1966
Time: 2320
The witness, standing on a 4th floor balcony, saw a disc-shaped object emerge from low hanging clouds & fly past at 100 ft altitude, 60-100 ft away, with a humming sound. The object, 75 ft in diameter, was orange green luminous with a rim bearing revolving lights, and had a number of portholes emitting white lights. Shadows like those of a moving person could be seen inside. It was in view for 5-10 minutes.

Humcat 1966-44
Source: SUFOI Newsletter 75
Type: A

http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1966.shtml

[seemslikeadream]

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Another strange noise recorded in Conklin Alberta

[seemslikeadream]

[Bruce Dazzling]

I've never heard demon and dragon screams emanating from a freshly opened Hellmouth, but that's what the Conklin, Alberta noise sounds like to me.

Begins in earnest @ 5:12.

[Searcher08]

If I heard that, I would be running outside and pointing to the sky

The Conklin Alberta sounds gave me the Heebee Jeebees

[justdrew]

It's probably just the sound of the universe machines breaking down. Where IS that repair being?

[Searcher08]

It's probably just the sound of the universe machines breaking down. Where IS that repair being?

What we think the aliens are doing
"Let us concentrate our mighty Galactic Third Eyes of Agape and send our Empowering 4 Dimensional love to the Earthlings at this time of Transition!!"

What the aliens are ACTUALLY doing
"HAROLD!"
"WHAAAAAAAT?"
"Get up! Your brother's broken Sol 3 again. He's turned the Core inside out. It's started making all those funny sounds again"
"MUM, EEEES ALLLLWAYS DOING THAT I WANNA STAY IN BED" etc etc

[justdrew]

It's probably just the sound of the universe machines breaking down. Where IS that repair-being?

What we think the aliens are doing
"Let us concentrate our mighty Galactic Third Eyes of Agape and send our Empowering 4 Dimensional love to the Earthlings at this time of Transition!!"

What the aliens are ACTUALLY doing
"HAROLD!"
"WHAAAAAAAT?"
"Get up! Your brother's broken Sol 3 again. He's turned the Core inside out. It's started making all those funny sounds again"
"MUM, EEEES ALLLLWAYS DOING THAT I WANNA STAY IN BED" etc etc

as below, so above

I do wonder if there's an electromagnetic source of some of these noises.

Number 690 #1, June 30, 2004 by Phil Schewe and Ben Stein

Why Do Transformers Hum?

Scientists in Switzerland have explained, for the first time, the microscopic cause of hum in those massive yokes of iron which help transform AC electricity from one voltage to another.

When current reverses 60 times a second the iron core of the transformer undergoes magnetetostriction twice during each cycle. In other words, 120 times per second induced fields cause the core to stretch slightly; a meter-sized transformer might stretch or shrink by only a micron but this would be enough to set up an audible 120-Hz hum.

(Earth itself is a magnet. Because of its own magnetic field, Earth's diameter is shrunk by about 10 cm. Turn off the terrestrial field and the Earth would spring back; its surface area would immediately increase by about 10 square kilometers.)

The new experimental work probes theories, going all the way back to Werner Heisenberg in the 1920s, about how the shrinkage arises from the magnetic interactions (spin exchange) among pairs of atoms (dimers), which share a common electron. The two magnetic ions want to be closer together.

For studying this effect iron itself is not the best test material and the Swiss scientists (ETH Lab in Zurich and the University of Bern) use another magnetic atom, manganese. Mn is a common ingredient in the magneto-resistance data storage systems found in most disk drives. Normally in a pure crystal, Mn atoms would be arrayed in endless straight lines. But in this experiment the Mn atoms are isolated, two by two, with plenty of intervening magnesium atoms. This allows the researchers to variably "dilute" the magnet interactions between Mn atoms.

The strength of these interactions (or to be more precise the energy levels of the excited Mn atoms) is measured by scattering a beam of neutrons from the sample, a process called neutron spectroscopy. The observed microscopic magnetostriction mimics the striction at the macroscopic level, but it does depart considerably from the predictions of the traditional Heisenberg model. (Straessle et al., Physical Review Letters, June 25, 2004; contact Thierry Straessle, Universite P&M Curie, 44-27-38-31, thierry.strassle@pmc.jussieu.fr, 33 44 27 38 81)

[barracuda]

More UFO Sightings Accompanied by Strange Sounds Worldwide

Most UFO sightings over the last 60-plus years have either been reported with photographs, or, more increasingly by video and film. But recently, sightings have included strange sounds as well.

Obviously, there is no audio track on a photograph. And many filmed sightings from the 50s onward were caught on film without an audio track. It's only been since the explosion of personal, digital videography that microphones have been more readily available.

However, most recent UFO sightings caught on video have been of unidentified flying objects silently floating or zooming away in the sky above, usually too far away to record any sounds the objects might be making.

That's changing.

A recent phenomenon pervading UFO sightings is the accompaniment of loud, unusual noises and machine-like sounds which are being attributed to the objects themselves. The video attached below is the most recent, and one of the best examples of this new trend.

Filmed at night in a small Scottish village by Duncan Taylor, the video shows a blurry object floating in the distant nighttime sky. Not unusual in itself, but the focus of this video is the audio track. Taylor notes that he's never heard this sound before and rules out any kind of local emergency broadcasting audio or that of a motor vehicle.

What makes this video doubly intriguing are the numerous comments following the video in which others claim they've heard the exact same, unusual and unknown noise accompanying UFO sightings, whether they were able to record them on video or not. And not just in Scotland, but in many other far-flung locales around the world.

[freemason9]

when I read "same exact" instead of "similar," I lost trust in the source

[brainpanhandler]

The people commenting on the video?

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Oh here it is. I started a new topic on this, when I shouldn't have. It sounds like the creature from Cloverfield. The original official trailer.