Posted on 08/26/2012 8:10:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – People from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them.
“I thought it was thunder,” said one person.
“It’s definitely not thunder; too consistent. I thought it was just mining,” said another person.
“I always considered them to be sonic booms from flying aircrafts for years,” said Loring Brunius, owner of Sierra Rock Diamond Quarry.
People who live near Pleasant Valley say their days have been interrupted by loud booms, shaking the floor beneath them.
“You can feel it in the ground, no question about it. But no one’s been able to figure out why,” said Pleasant Valley resident Peter O’Grady. “I tend to hear somewhere between four to six of these things during the weekdays usually between 11 p.m. and 2 p.m.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom just like that,” said Lorren Gonzales, who lives near Pleasant Valley.
And the rolling foothills of El Dorado County make it difficult for them to even tell where it’s coming from.
We asked the owner of Sierra Rock Diamond Quarry what he knew about it. He says they havent blasted since last year. And any miners or quarry owners would need government permission before they can set off any explosives.
“It’s a federally mandated system, and enforced,” said Brunius.
Some think the booms are from nearby wineries using propane cannons to scare away birds.
“We’ve never done it and I don’t know of any other winery that does,” said Carrie Bendick, a winemaker at Holly’s Hill Winery.
According to USGS, there aren’t enough seismic stations to pinpoint the exact location. Meanwhile, some say the booms have been around so long and happen so often they barely notice them anymore. Still, others want to solve the mystery.
“I would like to know what it is, yeah. And I’d like to know when it’s going to stop too,” said O’Grady.
CBS13 spoke to Fallon Naval Air Station that said any supersonic flight operations they do are only allowed over Dixie Valley, which is hundreds of miles away.
Some think illegal mining could be the source of the sounds, but Brunius doubts that theory. He said if that was the case, the culprit would have been caught by now.
We have those booms at my house, too. So it’s real. And I don’t know where they’re coming from, so no one does.
Living on the fault line.
Reminds me of the Marfa Lights in TX. No one knows what causes them either.
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what isn't these days?
Any military artillary gunfire ranges in the area? We get the same kind of booms here in south Orange County from Navy ships doing live fire practice on an island just off the coast. Depending on the wind and atmospheric conditions, they can be fairly loud.
These booms started in August of last year. Some people have claimed the noise sounded like trumpets, other people, in rural areas, say the sound resembles a busy interstate highway or freeway, even though no highway exists anywhere near their home.
The weird sounds in the sky have been reported throughout the U.S......in California, Maine, Tennessee, and many other states, and also in Hamburg, Germany; Keiv, Ukraine;
Australia, Costa Rica, etc. Seemingly, it’s been happening all over the world.
I heard one of these loud, rolling booms in Maine last March while I was home. People I know also heard the same sound, at the same time.
A few months later, it happened again. This time, I was in a small department store, and I heard a series of booms. An hour later, while sitting in the car in a parking lot, I heard them again. I haven’t heard them since.
Some people think the sounds are coming from the sky; others think the sounds are underground.
That jumped out at me too. The scope of it is getting really ugly.
Carrie....I live in wine country in Oregon and THEY USE cannons to scare birds in the fall.....so...I don’t know what planet you are on....sheesh.
taco night
It might be those black helicopters again.
Roseanne Barr fell over picking up a donut
“Living on a fault line” —— Exactly, EQ sound waves coming to the surface. Probably heard many times over but passed off as sonic booms, etc.
Lewis and Clarke wrote about these sounds at least twice in their journals. They said it sounds were like artillery in the distance.
Also the Marines at Camp Pendleton do artillery practice that can be heard up to 50 miles away.
http://www.marines.mil/unit/basecamppendleton/Pages/Information/noiseAdvisory.aspx
Are there ever single booms, or do they always come in quick pairs?
Incidentally, only a little technology (that already exists) could answer the question. If a bunch of people recorded the booms, timestamped with the exact (GPS) time, and their location, the source of the sounds could be easily triangulated. Such isn’t beyond a population filled with smart phones and whatnot; all it would take is someone deciding to arrange it and a bunch of interested participants living in the area.
Possibly the booms are a Bigfoot mating call?
Perhaps leftist heads are exploding in the rare event they finally realize what their voting pattern has produced.
Naaa,
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