Posted on 12/04/2008 10:30:48 PM PST by Kirkwood
I heard a series of loud booms coming from the Stennis Space Center tonight before midnight local time, followed by what sounded like claxon horns. Looked out the back door and saw numerous bright flashes reflected from the clouds along with loud booms. Looked like a thunderstorm, but there are no storms in the area. Cold and dry here. Explosions eventually died out after a half hour as did the horns. I'm thinking there was something unexpected going on at Stennis. It is normal to hear rocket tests during the day, but have never before heard anything in the middle of the night like this. Stennis is about 5 miles away.
Interesting. Please keep us informed.
I’m heading for bed. All is quiet now. A little spooky there in the middle of it all. I haven’t smelled anything unusual in the air, so can’t say for sure if there were fires involved. Stennis is in the middle of a swamp and nothing else around it.
claxon horns? What are they?
ping
Took one more look out in that direction and the cloud bottoms are lit up over there. That in itself seems unusual. It is normally very dark to the east since there are no towns in that direction. Wind is brisk from the NNE and Stennis is due east of my location, so I don’t expect to smell anything like smoke. The only thing south of Stennis is I-10 and the small town of Pearlington, then the Gulf. So if anything is drifting in the air, it is going that way.
I hope all is okay.
See link at post no. 3.
Sorry. Can’t spell. I meant klaxon horns like this, except very loud. More deep like a steamship horn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcXZANQneB8
They are working on the Ares rocket engine and have been testing off and on, but that always takes place in the middle of the day and the sound is constant. It can actually shake the house. These were individual explosions. I would say about 30 large booms. Loud enough for me to hear inside a brick home with the TV on.
Yeah, I hope no one over there got hurt if this was some unplanned event. Maybe we’ll hear something tomorrow on the news.
Ok.
If you don’t think it’s a routine test/noise; contact your local police department and report it.
If you think it is a noise that you know for sure is coming from the Space Center; we may or may not read it in the news.
ping for later
Wow. That hardly seems "routine"! Keep us posted and good luck!
Hey good imitation with the ARUUUUUUUUUUGAH! :-). Thanks for the link!
Gotcha. Thanks so much for the link. I can see having heard this sound combined with what you saw, how this was concerning. Glad you could post to us and not sit alone freaking out. Thanks for the link. Hope all is okay.
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