Or It Could Have Just Been a House Party

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 10:09 —by johnomatopoeia
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There is still no explanation for yesterday’s mysterious boom.

via Cox (emphasis added):

It wasn’t an earthquake, and it wasn’t Marine Corps artillery practice. No one knows for sure what it was, but it rattled buildings and shook windows around San Diego County this morning [4/4/06]. The mysterious boom was heard or felt about 8:45 a.m. The county Sheriff and police departments around the area say they got dozens of calls asking what it was, but they didn’t know either. The Geological Survey says there were no earthquakes at the time and Camp Pendleton says, although exercises are going on, there were no explosions when the boom was heard. Officials at Marine Air Station Miramar say there were no flight operations in the area that could have caused a sonic boom. That leaves a sonic boom caused by a high-flying aircraft operating under high security, possibly from Edwards Air Force Base. Experts say that is the most likely explanation.

Thanks.  I feel so much better now.  I’ll do my best to ignore the black helicopters.

On another note, the thunderstorm in North County early this morning rocked my butt out of bed thinking that we were experiencing another ‘boom’ or maybe an earthquake.  Mother Nature has a wicked sense of humor.

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10 Responses to “Or It Could Have Just Been a House Party”

  1. mikey said on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 10:50

    Another explanation I’ve heard is that it was a meteor exploding in the sky, possibly above the ocean… kinda like the Tunguska Event.

    I dunno.

  2. johnomatopoeia said on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 11:59

    Funny you should mention that. I was actually thinking of the exact same thing until I read that tidbit from this morning. Although I think it’s slightly less plausible, I’d sure prefer it over the idea of a high-security aircraft that wasn’t spotted on any radar.

  3. KirkH said on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 17:00

    I knew I read about this somewhere before….

    “The plane has been detected in numerous ways, one of which is by the US Geological Survey. The sonic boom created by it was so intense that seismologists were able to detect it general direction and speed, around Mach 3 to Mach 4 in the general direction of Las Vegas and the Nellis Test Range, where Groom Lake also happens to be located. The plane had to be decelerating, that’s why it wasn’t going Mach 6.”

    I don’t usually buy these stories but I’d prefer the idea of a spy plane rather than giant exploding metors. I wonder if they’re doing some flyovers of Iran ;)

  4. johnomatopoeia said on Thursday, April 6, 2006, 10:33

    It seems pretty plausible Kirk. USGS stated that there were no earthquakes, but they didn’t say whether or not the seismographs registered any activity. Do you have a link to that source? I’d be curious to read more about it.

  5. Kris Walker said on Friday, April 7, 2006, 15:15

    Hi,

    Kirk, could you please also give me the source of this information? I did my own analysis of the seismic stations in San Diego county and it seemed that the source of the noise was not a plane traveling overhead at supersonic speeds, but something that was 50 or so miles off the coast of San Diego to the southwest. That something could have been a plane that went momentarily supersonic (Mexican Navy?), or a meteor.

    Thanks,
    Dr. Kris Walker

  6. Bill R. said on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 11:52

    I read somewhere that the boom was probably due to a large pocket of Methane gas exploding below the ocean floor, not sure what would have set it off. It must have been a big one, but not sure why this wouldn’t register as an earthquake .. hmm.

    Bill R

  7. Kris said on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 12:14

    An explosion underwater would have been felt on the land sensors as an earthquake. There were no such events detected offshore that I am aware of. So I think we are still left with secret miliary thingee of meteor explosion.

    I still haven’t heard from Kirk so I expect what he read was bogus.

    kris

  8. Kris said on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 12:15

    An explosion underwater would have been felt on the land sensors as an earthquake. There were no such events detected offshore that I am aware of. So I think we are still left with secret miliary thingee of meteor explosion.

    I still haven’t heard from Kirk so I expect what he read was bogus.

    kris
    walker@ucsd.edu

  9. Bill R. said on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 12:26

    Here’s a link to this phenom. going back to the 70’s if not into the distant past.. interesting read.

    http://www.science-frontiers.com/online/search.cgi?zoom_query=Booms&zoom_per_page=50&zoom_and=1&zoom_sort=0

    Regards,

    Bill R.

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