US Govt. coverup of loud booms begin, say it is a meteor shower! The booms back and heard all over NorCal.

Heh weird because I wrote a paper that briefly touched upon this at university last semester, in terms of meteor showers making sounds.

Never read anything about that even being possible before..you are right..it has only normally been heard using special instruments.

5*/suggest pin!!! Something is fucked up with that explanation from the National Weather Service!

It's just Black Projects going in/out of Groom Lake again.

More info here:

Thread: Crazyass Loud Boom Heard From Stockton To Lake Tahoe This Morning

When in doubt...make something up! At least they aren't saying fireworks caused it this time!

Heh Nosaj back to doing Conspiracy Theories instead of weirdo threads :)

Hmmm...didn't think about that. I would add it to the pie chart of possibilities.

Nice, thanks for the link...some comments I have read on their local news articles have people freaking out over there. Never heard anything like it.

Don't forget 'earthquake precursor' doom! How big a piece is that?

Or fireworks carried up into the atmosphere by Chinese lanterns that happened to hit the perfect angle. Meanwhile, at ground level Swamp Gas amplified the audio distortion when they set them off.

So nothing to see here really.

[link to hosted.ap.org]

Probably meteor explode above Earth surface like was Tunguska event, only much smaller ..

"The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.[4]"

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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Last Edited by Rain-Man on 04/23/2012 11:45 AM

Pine ti!

Once would be an accident.

Twice could be coincidence.

Third time...well like the joke punchline that goes "...so god said, what did you want? I sent two climbers and a helicopter!".

Loud, recurring booms over the northern third of the state...what else do you want? And meteors are just silly...same spot, next day, nowhere else in between, same root cause? lol. Plus those trumpet noises that may or may not be happening around the same general area.

recurring? please show links and reports of the recurrence. i know there was the mention on the police scanner at the time, and one other person said two booms.

also, there is another meteor sighting vid, over utah, from a couple years ago that also claims it was a meteor.

as they make this shit up it becomes more plausible because they just build on their lies. eventually people just think, 'oh of course that is normal.'

I saw it was "only between" 5-10 km above the Earths atmosphere when it exploded but that doesn't account for actually "hearing it"

Very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. Such radio waves, which oscillate at audio frequencies between a few kHz and 30 kHz, travel to the ground at the speed of light and human ears can't directly sense radio signals.......

Meaning, meteors only produce those particular waves even when they explode down

[link to www.ksl.com]

In Tooele County, residents reported that they felt that moment when the meteor shattered. Wiggins said it took about 5 minutes for the sonic boom, but said he's not surprised people felt it.

"Most meteors, you don't hear them, but this one was close enough and big enough that, yeah, you definitely heard the thing. It was exciting," he said.

In fact, seismology monitors at the University of Utah picked up the rumble from the air.

Military training exercises?

"Elizabeth Silber at Western University has searched for infrasound signals from the explosion," says Cooke. "Infrasound is very low frequency sound which can travel great distances. There were strong signals at 2 stations, enabling a triangulation of the energy source at 37.6N, 120.5W. This is marked by a yellow flag in the map below."

"The energy is estimated at a whopping 3.8 kilotons of TNT (about one fourth the energy of the 'Little Boy' bomb dropped on Hiroshima), so this was a big event," he continues. "I am not saying there was a 3.8 kiloton explosion on the ground in California. I am saying that the meteor possessed this amount of energy before it broke apart in the atmosphere. [The map] shows the location of the atmospheric breakup, not impact with the ground."

"The fact that sonic booms were heard indicates that this meteor penetrated very low in atmosphere, which implies a speed less than 15 km/s (33,500 mph). Assuming this value for the speed, I get a mass for the meteor of around 70 metric tons. Hazarding a further guess at the density of 3 grams per cubic centimeter (solid rock), I calculate a size of about 3-4 meters, or about the size of a minivan."

"This meteor was probably not a Lyrid; without a trajectory, I cannot rule out a Lyrid origin, but I think it likely that it was a background or sporadic meteor."

from nasa space weather...person who posted this didn't put a link and i can't find it in the mess that is conspiracy sites reporting on yesterday's meteor.

Link to yesterday? Are you new?

I did not hear the sounds this weekend but I have heard them about a month ago and wondered what the heck it was. It was in the middle of the night and truly an expansive sound vibration which did not seem localized.

Yesterday I was in the Napa valley and I saw some very fast large aircraft fly directly upward, with a contrail like a missile. I've never seen anything like it and wonder if it was related.

no i am not new, dickweed, i've seen all the fucking videos and read every single thread and then some. what i mentioned are the only two places i have seen mention of dual booms. so if you're going to pop off about someone asking for more evidence and eye witness on that, YOU are the noob. i find it highly relevant to make the reports of multiple booms as clear as possible, as it is an important element IF it is true.

here's the nasa report:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

***** FIVE Stars!

How can we be going through a yearly meteor field if were traveling through space, a new part of space, the sun is in a 251 million year orbit?

The meteors are part of our system. They're rotating around the sun on a different plane. Every once in a while--weeeeee!!! Here come the meteors again!

Just heard the official meteor explanation on CNN. Hmm