Posted on 12/30/2009 2:22:19 PM PST by TaraP
Strange booms from the sky have San Diego residents on edge. And they're not alone.
Mysterious booms were also heard this week in Arkansas City, Kansas and in parts of Oklahoma. The booms were loud enough to shake the earth and register on the Richter Scale. "Experts" were quick to blame them on military airplanes despite zero evidence for this assertion.
But these roars from the sky are nothing new and have been occurring since long before there were aircraft to blame.
Legendary anomalist Charles Fort called them "skyquakes" and gives many examples of them in his books. Some famous (and recurring) booms are the Moodus Noises of Moodus, Connecticut. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft even used them in his famous short story, the Dunwich Horror
Fort mentions one case in particular that resembles recent events in San Diego. In 1839, in Comrie, Scotland, a series of "quakes in the sky" were felt and heard by residents. Ultimately, on October 23, a massive boom was felt above Comrie and for many miles around. A witness noted: "The noises heard first seemed to be in the air, and the rumbling sound in the earth."
Other international examples include the Barisal Guns of Bangladesh and the Guns of Seneca, heard around Seneca Lake in New York State. In the Netherlands they are known as mistpoeffers. They are also sometimes called "fog guns."
Many explanations have been put forward to explain the noises but no current theory satisfies as an explanation. They seem to be linked to seismic activity but it is difficult to ascertain as the booms themselves could be causing the earth to shake. If shifting tectonic plates are to blame for the booming the mechanism has yet to be explained.
The Iroquois told early setttlers that they were the sound of the Great Spirit continuing his work shaping the earth. For now that will have to do.
Blue Moons are rare (once every ~2.5 years). Blue Moons on New Year's Eve are rarer still (once every ~19 years). How rare is a lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve? A search of NASA's Five Millennium Catalogue of Lunar Eclipses provides an approximate answer. In the next 1000 years, Blue Moons on New Year's Eve will be eclipsed only 11 times (once every ~91 years). So this is a rare event, indeed
Maybe its magnetic reversal in process. Read Robert Felix's "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps"
Fort was a new age nut
Now THAT would be a man-caused disaster! Ewww...
More likely to be reindeer farts since it‘s close to Christmas.
*Strange booms from the sky have San Diego residents on edge*
I live in San Diego and think the article is way over the top.
Anyone I know wouldn’t give it a second thought.
We are use to sonic booms, etc.
Not too new age: "The Book of the Damned" was published in 1919.
War of the Worlds
Ah yes, and they do need that extra lift to get Santa off the ground.
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