Roaring Sounds

Uneasy Times: Rare, Unprecedented, Extreme

Posted by Jay Man on February 28, 2013
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Earthquake Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 10 comments

Boom!

It’s not like I’m old but with age comes wisdom (for some of us). One thing that has become increasingly clear in my life is that “sh**t happens”. It’s a cliche phrase but it’s also a way of looking at life.

Recently I’ve been struck by how weird things are getting in terms of undeniable earth changes occurring in the world. The world changes all the time but I see an acceleration in these events.

My Youtube addiction includes subscriptions from Jenna Marbles to Shielaaliens. It also includes many channels offering news compilations covering all sorts of catastrophic world events from floods to earthquakes. The earth is changing, has always changed and will continue to change. I accept this and until recently have dismissed these stories as examples of what has always happened since the beginning.

However, I’ve recently changed my opinion. As I watch the news compilations I have begun to notice words like “rare”, “unprecedented” and “extreme”. Often interviewed witnesses and newscasters will say things like “I have never seen anything like it” or “What are the chances…”.

One person in particular I like to follow is Youtuber fidockave213. Once a month he shows us all the scary stuff going on in the world complete with scary music and Bible verses. I have always watched them partly out of morbid fascination akin to watching a train wreck. These are meant to scare you but they are the real deal. WARNING: Watch if you dare. You will be creeped out.

Russian Meteor

So what is all this commentary leading up to? Well the Russian meteor that occurred a few weeks ago got me thinking about sky booms. There have been many, many recorded fireballs over the past few years, often with sonic booms. What is unusual about the Russian meteor is the damage it caused. That’s something you don’t see with these fireballs.

I will cut to the chase. I started documenting strange sounds in 2011 and covered many types of strange sound videos. Occasionally I would find some with news clips covering “loud booms”. Apparently loud booms have been happening for some time. The only difference is that it appears to be happening a lot more lately! I see this going hand in hand with the accelerating bizarre weather events we’ve been experiencing from record temperatures, drought, unseasonal tornadoes, thousand mile hurricanes, extreme snow storms, more 8.0 earthquakes than ever and the list goes on. These things have always happened but not to this degree in recorded history. It’s the frequency and severity that one can’t help noticing.

All of the past “strange sounds”, while recorded events, are not usually supported by widespread news stories. The ones that sound like venting factories, jet roaring, metallic scraping, etc. do not bother me at all. They are probably something not so strange. But the constant reports of booming happening everywhere is something you can believe.

No One Knows

Booms are happening all over the world and people are trying hard to explain them. They say oh it’s sonic booms, earthquakes, meteors, etc. But then they can’t find any recorded sources, like military exercises or earthquakes. Continue Reading

Three Disturbed Ladies and a Guy in Louisiana: No You Aren’t Crazy, You Heard a “Sky Roar”

Posted by Jay Man on April 25, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America. 11 comments

What do these videos all have in common?

They’re posted by people frustrated by what they hear. They can’t understand and will record it over and over capturing the sound with varying degrees of success. They often feel that people think they’re crazy or that people don’t believe them. They know it’s not a plane and we know that too. They all have commentary and more often they seem curious more than afraid. See here for the definition of a “sky roar”. The term was invented by yours truly as a way to identify the events. I have catalogued many of these types of sounds over the last 6 months. To see more just look in the categories to the right.

I’ve been noticing an uptick in people posting about hearing a constant jet sound above their houses. I’m certain this type of sky noise is increasing. The “sky roars” are definitely related to boom sounds. You will see in this news video from Ohio that booms and roars are being heard together. The witnesses say they might have seen a jet but the big problem with that idea is the length of the sound. I will no longer entertain the idea that these constant jet sounds are from actual jets. They last too long and most say they really don’t sound like jets. This news piece is very lame but watch.

Witnesses say:

I heard an extremely loud “boom” followed by what sounded like a long drawn out continuation of that first sound. It wasn’t an ascending noise either, just came out of nowhere.

 I heard two events. The second was lesser than the first. Lasted about 45 seconds each. Sounded like a LOUD jet but no boom.

So now back to the three disturbed ladies and a guy. I’ve been following two of the women since last fall. They periodically post videos of the constant jet roars and most have multiple videos. They often have commentary which is very useful for context. They all sound like nice people simply curious and bothered by the noises. Often these sounds are recorded early in the morning. One thing about “sky roars” is the timing is often early in the morning. The third woman has only started recording last week but already has several videos. They seem quite determined to document these sounds. The “guy” heard this sound early in the morning too. He also seems frustrated and says, “I know I’m not crazy!”. I picked the best of their videos.

The first is YT user thecajungoddess in Louisiana. She has been recording these since last fall and has a new loud one. She says:

This went on for over 2 hours and woke me up at aprox 5am….I had to use my regular camera (as in crappy camera)….and it was dark, so that’s why no picture….but at least i got the audio….

 

She has other videos with surroundings.

This one is from Beaverlodge, Alberta by SuperSamgordon. She even bought a good camera to record it. In later videos she goes off into all sort of theories including orbs and ufos. This one was from September of last year before all the “strange sound” interest.

She says:

I hear this every morning ,more than 3 weeks now. It’s getting progressively louder as the days go by. I could hear this at 7:00 a.m.when I got up,it’s now 9:10 and it’s getting even louder. Does anybody have any answers at all?

This is a new one from Pennsylvania. She has been awoken several times and has a number of videos. This video has the sudden stop that we some times hear in this sort of sky noise.

She says:

The noise startled me out of my sleep. At the end of the film I said almost 7 o’clock in the morning. It was almost 6 o’clock in the morning (6:50am). I wasn’t awake yet. I hate being woken up this early. It’s way to early for this.

This guy from Louisiana was awoken a 5:45 in the morning and the video was recorded a day before thecajungoddess video. So this is sort of a “twin”. A “twin” is a matching video by another person, around the same time or day in a nearby location. If you look at his channel he has commentary and seems very frustrated.

A Breathing “Sky Roar” Accompanied by a Bird Chorus

Posted by Jay Man on April 25, 2012
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Filmed in Pensacola, Florida on April 22nd. This is an odd one. We’ve never heard a constant jet roar type video that audibly fluctuates. The witness says it sounds like jets continually taking off or circling. I laugh every time I play this because it sounds like the birds are answering the sound. It seems to have been uploaded directly from a phone.

Banging Metal in the Sky: Was it a Giant Easter Bunny?

Posted by Jay Man on April 9, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America, Warped Metal / Sky Banging. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 6 comments

Turn up your volume for this one. Filmed in Hamilton, Ontario at 7:00am Easter morning, this sounds like metal banging in the sky. Very atmospheric, the sound is clearly in the distance. I believe it’s not likely there would be construction on Easter Sunday.

There is no real consistency to the noise here. The witness says it sounds like clanging metal, wind without wind and booming. At one point her dogs go crazy. I like it when dogs go nuts because it makes the video more credible. I see no reason this wouldn’t be real. She seems a bit disturbed by the banging and ends the video by saying she’s going to get her husband.

The filming is continued from a different angle and includes her husband’s commentary. It sounds about the same from this particular angle as it did in the first video.

This is a very strange noise indeed. To my ear it’s like someone (the Easter Bunny?) in a workshop looking for a lost tool and in the process dropping and throwing things around. The husband says it sounds like construction, but it doesn’t sound like that she says. The husband wonders why the birds aren’t bothered. It upset the dogs but the birds are unfazed.

In the end she laughs nervously and says, “if something comes out of the sky I’m running to the basement.”

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Roaring Over the UK: Was It a Jet From the Netherlands?

Posted by Jay Man on April 9, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in Europe, Sounds in the UK. 3 comments

Sigh… Don’t call me a fear monger okay. I’m going to present this in the most neutral way possible and I’ll let you decide. According to a news article, a sonic boom was heard over central England. The article is here. A helicopter mistakenly broadcast an emergency signal which prompted a swift response by the military. Two Typhoon jets were allowed to break the sound barrier to rush to the helicopter. The sound was heard over Bath, Swindon and Oxford.

So I did some digging on Youtube and to my delight I found a perfect recording of it from Bath. The only thing is, it’s not a boom but rather the jet sounds themselves. Notice how the jet roar suddenly stops and starts back up again. This occurred today at 6pm. It made the news immediately.

Here is the video.

When I viewed the above video I noticed she had linked to another video shot yesterday at 6am from the Netherlands. According to the poster of this video below, their local news said it was a broken air shaft of an electric factory. Go to the 11:55 mark and notice how it stops suddenly.

I will not comment on these as they have official explanations.

Hat tip to AndreaG.

I Wonder if “Strange Sounds” Exist at All

Posted by Jay Man on April 9, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Earthquake Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 9 comments

UPDATE 4/12: 4 feet of hail in Amarillo. Article here.

Hat tip to flameofjudah.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

It doesn’t seem like you to state your biased opinion as fact like this… to say that these noises are so obviously the result of climate change is just as preposterous as saying they are the result of Easter Bunnies in the sky. It seems strange that you would make the leap from your typical, facts-only approach to such an unfounded shotgun-statement like this… especialy when there is zero evidence to support such a claim and plenty of evidence to the contrary…
…too many more posts like this and you’ll be walkin that line between journalist and fear-monger, like so many other internet sites… are you starting to slip on us?

MY RESPONSE:

The key words I used are “believe” and “think” and “thought”. I made it clear I’m referring to “booms” and “jet roar sounds”. The Accuweather video explains how earthquakes might be caused by climate change. It’s not a leap to recognize that many of these “booms” are happening during recorded seismic activity as represented in the OK and PA videos.

It’s obvious there is something wrong with our climate and I don’t need to google it to see. If you do google it you will find there is growing debate and concern as to whether these extreme and numerous tornadoes are caused by climate change. No one agrees but I wouldn’t say it’s not possible like you imply. I simply said I thought it could be related given that the roars sound like tornadoes. As far as the other “strange sounds”, I don’t know and I have my doubts about those even as I document them.

I would hardly call myself a journalist and in fact I have no idea what I’m doing. I suppose it’s less scary to believe it’s aliens, HAARP, God, etc., than to believe it could be (gasp) climate change.

The elusive stuff lingers at the edge of our vision and never quite materializes. The paranormal stuff is scary but fun! Climate change is measurable and it WILL kick your ass.

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We’ve heard lot’s about the mysterious Clintonville booms over the last month and you may or may not know that the diagnosis was a 1.5 earthquake. See here. Many people including Clintonville residents didn’t buy this explanation. Even I found it a bit hard to believe. Just because it seems hard to believe doesn’t make it false.

We also saw other towns near Clintonville being affected by the booms. The town of Baraboo even had flashes of light. See here. But small earthquake booms aren’t really unusual as I had thought. There have been several examples of small earthquakes being accompanied by booms. The most recent is from a week ago in Pittsburg, Oklahoma, see here, and from last May another example from Philadelphia occured. This tells me that indeed all the booming and odd sounds they hear are most likely caused by seismic activity.

If you follow this blog you know that we attempt to debunk or explain the incidents even with limited information. The only “strange sounds” we’ve documented that are probably real are booms and constant jet roar sounds. See definitions here to understand. I think the “sky dragons” are venting valves (see here) and the Kiev “trumpets” (see here) are fakes all around. Even the post above this one from Hamilton, Ontario while definitely “strange”, is not necessarily unexplainable.

I think the booms and the constant jet noises are probably natural but could be ominous. There have been many, many of the jet noise type sound videos recently. I don’t post a fraction of them. I believe they’re real and this phenomenon started last year in Florida.

I believe these booms and jet noises are related to climate change and a symptom of changes in our atmosphere.

In this video below from Accuwather they explain how climate change might cause earthquakes.

I have to tell you, my heart sank when I saw the extreme and unusually early tornadoes touching down in Dallas-Fort Worth last week. Tornadoes aren’t actually abnormal in Texas but there have been many other early twisters in Kentucky, Indiana and other states resulting in 39 deaths. This video below shows how this tornado threw semi-trailers around like Tonka toys.

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This and That

Posted by Jay Man on March 31, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Earthquake Sounds, Metallic Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America, Sounds in the UK. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 19 comments

Item 1: Clintonville Boom Recording?

There isn’t much going on in terms of truly amazing strange sound videos but I do have some interesting tidbits to share. The first is an alleged Clintonville recording posted by an audio engineer who spent time there with the intent of capturing the sound. He claims to have met with the city officials who assisted him in his pursuit. Not everyone is buying his account. I would say with national attention he would be pretty ballsy to hoax this. Given no one with real credentials has been able to record this, I’m skeptical. Here is his explanation.

Here is the supposed recording. He explains his analysis thoroughly.

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Item 2: Magnet Makes a “Strange Sound”?

Scientist have created a magnetic field 2 million times stronger than the Earth’s or 100 Tesla. It’s a tool for studying various materials. The sound is heard at 1:37 as they energize the magnet. The magnet vibrates with the electrical currents causing an audible noise.

Going to make a leap here and go back to this video from last month. Notice how this has a similar electrical magnetic sound. The post is here.

A reader Panos had this to say at the time I posted this:

The more we hear these sounds the more i get the feeling that they are the result of some electrostatic discharge. And the fact that they are quite different from one another also points to that direction.

i.e. if the discharge is in the clouds then you get the “sky roar”, if it is in the woods then you get a hissing sound and cracks, if it is from an urban/industrial area or from metallic structures you get more metallic sounds like this one..

I have no idea if there is a connection or even how it relates. The sound is similar though. Thanks for the tip Ines!

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Booms are Back in Wisconsin

Posted by Jay Man on March 28, 2012
Posted in: Booming Sounds, Earthquake Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 15 comments

City administrator Lisa Kuss says the booms returned last night with more intensity. I admire this lady for her calm and professional handling of this event. She should run for congress.

From this article here:

Kuss offered three reasons why there’s so little data on the Clintonville rumblings:

  • The smaller the magnitude of a quake, the harder it is to find the activity picked up by monitors
  • The farther the activity is from monitors, the less likely it is to be picked up
  • The more outside noise and interference, such as Tuesday night’s strong winds, make it more difficult to detect the activity on the monitors

The USGS says these small quakes are harmless and will diminish over time and it has something to do with slow releasing earth stress.

Residents seem skeptical, this is from the article comments:

Last night’s was the loudest and strongest (I live on the north side of Clintonville) and this has a lot of people rattled, literally and figuratively. My own opinion is that the city officials are putting the budget before safety concerns.

It is speculated in many articles that the dry winter has caused a low water table. This causes gaps in the granite under Clintonville thus allowing rocks to settle.

AN ASIDE

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the booms but look at this article from 2009 here. It’s very interesting and apparently the future of things. The government has set up an experiment where they blast neutrinos (link to wiki definition here) under Wisconsin starting in Illinois and ending in Minnesota. It’s described as a sort of pitcher and catcher set up. The Minnesota end is 5,500 tons of solid iron in an abandoned mine. The other end is a Government lab outside Chicago. The article says they do “violent things with tiny particles.” They beam neutrinos across the state underground in a straight line.

Also of note is an experiment by the University of Rochester which has successfully transmitted a message through stone using a beam of neutrinos.

From the article here:

“Using neutrinos, it would be possible to communicate between any two points on Earth without using satellites or cables,” said Dan Stancil, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State.

Different Sounds, Opposite Ends: Strange “Annoying” Sounds in Kerry and Derry

Posted by Jay Man on March 25, 2012
Posted in: Humming Sounds, Roaring Sounds, Sounds in Europe. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 9 comments

I’ve been following the story of unexplained noise in Kerry and Derry since last month. For background you should read this post here. Kerry and Derry are on the opposite ends of Ireland with Derry to the north and Kerry to the south. They’ve been experiencing completely different sounds that are described as “annoying”. What’s particularly odd in my opinion is that they’re completely different types of noise. One is described as sounding like a helicopter and the other as being more like a hum. It seems weird that Ireland is experiencing two different unexplained disturbances in opposite areas at the same time. I’m not sure what this means if anything.

In Kerry a local news piece here says:

Deputy Healy-Rae said that people were being disrupted by the “very unusual and very annoying” noise and that one family in particular were “driven demented” by it.

One gets a mental image of a family being taken away in a paddy wagon.

Having begun last April, people as far as 25 kilometer have reported hearing it. The local government there is taking it seriously. This is very much like the Windsor hum, see here. According to the article the noise can’t be recorded, but finally someone has recorded audio waves and replicated the sound.

For the first time we have not only a video of a local resident describing the mystery noise, but also a replication of the hum. Barry Lynch says he doesn’t believe it’s supernatural.

Below is a video of the hum. Apparently the audio waves can be recorded but they’re so low frequency it’s very hard to hear. What you’re hearing is a “replica”.

So this brings us to Derry, it’s an odd coincidence how they rhyme. They’re not hearing a “hum”. Their nuisance comes in the form of what’s described as an aircraft noise occurring at night. No one is taking blame and no one can see an airplane. They have ruled out local commercial flights and geological survey planes. The government there is also taking it seriously.

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Not Your Typical “Sky Roar”: Strange Sound in Fort Worth

Posted by Jay Man on March 24, 2012
Posted in: Roaring Sounds, Sounds in North America. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , . 32 comments

I must say if this is real I don’t like it one bit. It’s very loud and while it sounds kind of like a constant jet roar it’s a lot more intense.

Filmed March 23, the witness says it usually occurs at night but this time it was heard in the morning. The previous night it lasted over an hour. He says he lives near a military base and thinks this might be experiments. He says it’s louder than most noises they hear and it’s not like a fly over. A friend heard it two miles away.

This is a cross between the constant jet noises we hear and a real rumble. See here for a definitions. I noticed a spike in searches for “Dallas strange sounds” over the past few days and now I know why!  I consider this proof that something definitely was heard in the area. There were probably 100 search hits. I can often tell if something is up by looking at this data. Then I look for videos based on the locations in the search.

What’s up with the end where the sound changes from background noise to pure roar then back again? Is this a feature of cameras to allow loud sounds to come forward and drown out background noise. Then return when the noise is gone? Any sound people out there know the reason for this?

Notice at the 3:47 mark how the sound stops abruptly. Then we hear a car cranked. It’s great to be able to compare the noises to get a sense of how atmospheric it is.

I did a post on strange sounds in Dallas last month, see here and here. The constant jet roar videos from then don’t compare to this one. People were hearing other strange sounds at that time as well. Details are in the posts.

UPDATE 3/24: Living near a military base would seem to indicate military experiments and I could have easily dismissed it as such. However they claim it’s was louder than ever and not like a plane flying over, but more constant. It must be a new type of experiment and I would imagine it’s a real nuisance being heard over two miles away. Also this sound would keep me awake if it often happens at night. If he lives near a base and hears this all the time why would he bother recording it. The other reason I posted it was the spike in search terms meaning that something loud was heard and caused people to go to the internet to search for information.

This video below was sent to someone who regularly posts videos about UFO stuff.

While I seriously doubt the video below is a UFO (it could also be a reflection on the window), it was recorded around the same day as the strange noise. It shows a craft of some sort flying faster than a regular jet. It’s right above Fort Worth. This would lead me to believe there might be some sort of super loud experimental craft being tested. The shape is pretty close to some of the new drones they have flying around but they wouldn’t fly that fast (I don’t think). I wonder if it is a military jet if it wouldn’t have caused a sonic boom at that speed.