Rumbling noise in sky around 2am last night, Clearwater, FL | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18438065 United States 06/23/2012 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I also heard it last night. My wife and I have heard it a few times before. It is easy to miss when it starts because it is not startling. If it didn't last for a few minutes, you would dismiss it as a truck, plane or piece of construction equipment. However, it persists for a while, doesn't move, doesn't change and ends abruptly. I just wanted to give a confirmation that you weren't the only one to hear it and be curious about the source. I don't think the source would be anything that this site looks to focus on (never been here, found via Google search). My best guess is that it might come from the construction on 19 between Drew and 60. That was the direction I thought it was coming from when I stepped outside (Sunset and Keene). I found this on YouTube That is the sound we are hearing. The low rumble in the background, not the cicadas and other normal FL noise. |
Evil_Twin User ID: 14319721 United States 06/23/2012 10:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I stayed in downtown Dunedin last night. Something woke me out of a deep sleep at 2:10 am. No idea what it was. Soooo fucking DOOMED!!! Last Edited by Evil_Twin on 06/23/2012 10:53 AM |
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Just wondering (OP) User ID: 14599672 United States 06/23/2012 11:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5100558 United States 06/23/2012 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Went out both nights but and cannot tell which direction it is is coming from. |
just wondering (OP) User ID: 14599672 United States 06/23/2012 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | P.S. Thanks to the person who posted the video and responded to my question (and thanks to all who responded). I also watched that video before posting and thought it might be the same kind of noise, but I guess my computer doesn't play loudly enough for it to make a real impression on me or for me to be able to compare accurately. I also was going to go outside to see if I could figure out where the noise was coming from, but by the time I thought of that, the noises had stopped. In response to the person who mentioned a truck noise--yes--it was kind of like when I hear a fire truck parked out front--responding to a 911 call for one of my neighbors--but a little more even sounding and more like it was coming from the sky. Maybe three jets flying to MacDill one after the other? But, enough space in between them for the noise to stop for a few seconds in between. And, the noise didn't fade away like you would expect it to if it was jets. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 12384893 United States 06/23/2012 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't live in florida but I did hear low rumbles of noise last night. This was between one-am up to about two-thirtyish this morning. I kept hearing a very low rumble like a truck or something. It wasn't a continous noise, just heard it ever so often over the normal background noise . I am close to the gulf of mexico though....so it might have been the same sound. It was strange though...especially since I wasn't the only one who heard it...thanks for posting that.....will add to my list of strange things.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 17717923 United States 06/28/2012 05:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hope some of those weird sounds and noises heard around the world would happen here in the Los Angeles area. But I doubt they ever will be because of all the freeway noise, planes and jets in the air, lawnmowers, trucks and buses on city streets,trains honking, just plain loud traffic noise everywhere. |
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Shotgunner User ID: 17054692 United States 07/16/2012 07:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yesterday, I heard an incredibly loud noise around 2 am. I had the tv on loud and all of a sudden my entire house began to shake with a roaring engine sound. The way the noise grew with intensity and due to how low the pitch was, it sounded like something incredibly huge. The noise slowly diminished, like it was getting farther away. At the time I just assumed it was a very big plane flying extremely low, but after a quick google search revealing so many recent noise reports of the same type and time I now suspect something more. As I am typing this I am hearing it again. I have heard it tonight, but much quieter, like something far away. Although... The people that know what it really is won't be here telling me huh? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 162364 United States 07/16/2012 07:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did the noise stop at around the time the geomagnetic storm subsided? [link to www.haarp.alaska.edu] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7314441 United States 07/16/2012 07:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nobody has a definitive answer, most seem willing to handwave it away as either; Sonic booms, earthquakes or imagination. However, none of those 'excuses' hold water. To date the most famous case is still Clintonville Wisconsin. Despite the fact that local officials deemed it to be caused by small tremors in the area (you know, the kind of tremors CAUSED by explosions) these noises have continued to plague other areas relentlessly. My personal theory as to what causes it and why it seems to only occur at night is simple. It's particularly dense CME's bouncing off the atmosphere. |
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Shotgunner User ID: 17054692 United States 07/16/2012 07:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just hope it's not fault lines about to give, because that wouldn't give us a fighting chance. My semi-auto shotgun sits in my lap, full of solid steel slugs, capable of easily punching through an engine block. AR with 90 rounder full of steel core ss109. I feel I'm too paranoid, but if I let my guard down and my family was hurt I could not live with myself. |
Handgunner User ID: 20261756 United States 07/22/2012 03:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in clearwater off gulf to bay & belcher. just heard the rumbling sound. I googled rumbling sound clearwater and found this thread. It sounds like jets over at macdill, but without change in volume. When ever there are air shows at macdill, you can hear the jets coming and going with the volume changing. this is a constant rumble like a distant freight train. What the hell could it be? |
klmbrt User ID: 20262272 United States 07/22/2012 03:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i also live in clearwater on belcher by gulf to bay in Palms of Clearwater apartment complex, and it woke me up and made me really concerned what it could be, I thought it was a train and it went on for about 15 minutes then ended abruptly and then would start again and stop on and off at only about 30 secs to 2 minutes at a time, sometimes only a couple seconds.... very odd, sounded like it got gradually louder and then stopped immediately like an engine being cut off, but it was very loud and sounded like it was right above us... And i did check the magnetometer ( [link to www.haarp.alaska.edu] and a large magnetic storm started at 1am EST and appears to still be continuing, but could that be the source??? I'm really not sure |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19928529 United States 07/22/2012 03:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cicadas live underground as nymphs for most of their lives, at depths ranging from about 30 cm (1 ft) down to 2.5 m (about 8.5 ft). In the final nymphal instar, they construct an exit tunnel to the surface and emerge. They then molt (shed their skins) on a nearby plant for the last time and emerge as adults. The abandoned exoskeleton remains, still clinging to the bark of trees. [link to en.wikipedia.org] So they spend almost their entire life underground The cicadas then die after a few short weeks of adulthood after climbing out molting flying around and make a lot of annoying noise. Since the weather has been changing so drastically molting cycle is no less predictive in other countries |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 14599672 United States 07/22/2012 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hi all, I'm the original poster. To the people who live near Belcher and Gulf-to-Bay, maybe the noise was related to our terrible storm yesterday, although what you (last night's posters) described sounded similar to the noise I heard back when I made my first post. If you weren't in town during the storm, to let you know how bad it was, my next door neighbors (two sets) went into their safe areas that they have for tornado times and I made a beeline for mine, too, around 8:00 or so. Another neighbor two houses away had one quarter of his two-three stories high oak tree fall on his house. I don't know if it was still storming at 3 am, but maybe there was some ducting going on from a storm in another part of the state. To the person who mentioned cicadas, their sound is high pitched, unlike the rumbling sound I heard. We haven't had any cicada noises this summer. I remember reading thirty years ago that they go underground for seventeen or eighteen years before emerging as adults. Thanks for the science lesson for people who don't know about them. Thanks to the people who have posted. I haven't heard that noise again, although I've been hearing plenty of thunder, including right now. |
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Just Wonderingg (OP) User ID: 14599672 United States 07/28/2012 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was wrong about the cicadas. I haven't heard any loud cicada noises this summer, but on the news last night they played some cicada noise that was heard at Tampa International Airport. I went outside and heard some relatively high pitched noise that sounded more like crickets to me because it was intermittent (like a pulse), but it could have been cicadas. Anyway it was nothing like the deep (mysterious) rumbling sound that I heard a month ago in the middle of the night. |
Saltyflats User ID: 8579098 United States 07/28/2012 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm just down the beach from ya'll on Redington Beach. I missed it last night however, I've seen some crazy odd electrical storms over the gulf late night recently. I have several UFO videos from this summer as well. Something is happening over the west coast of Florida no question. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -Carl Sagan. |
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