Mystery noise - Seaside Heights, NJ area

DeathStar1 · 02-01-2007, 10:16 AM

Have you ever heard a Sonic Boom before? I'm currently down the Jersey Shore, Seaside Heights area, and as of 11:00AM, I heard what sounded like a Thunderclap. This noise lasted 5 seconds or less, was enough to shake the house a little, and I just heard about 10 of them in the space of 30 minutes. The only thing I could think of is jets going Mach 1 from the nearby McGuire Airforce base.

But, unless it was for training exercises, why would one need go that fast down here, and why ten in a row? I thought only Mach 3 was possible, so assuming it was a jet, 3 booms would be the limit..

Anyone else in the area hear the noises just now and can confirm what it was? Curios minds want to know

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Edit - As of 11:20 I just heard 'em again, this time three within 3 seconds, and a fourth one 3 seconds after that... Gotta be Sonic booms, no? But why so many is the question

Jay H · 02-01-2007, 10:39 AM

Maybe it's some new boardwalk game at the boardwalk there??

I remember when an F-16 crashed right off the GSP down by the pine barrens last year or a few years ago...

Not one of the snow thunder... no storms that I've seen recently except for a squall off Ocean and Cape May county right now. Wunderground didn't show any lightning strikes...

Jay

Bob Turnbull · 02-01-2007, 10:58 AM

Neil, is there a big construction site nearby? Where they might be doing some blasting? Near our building at work, they had been doing blasting about 6 months ago and it sometimes sounded a bit like loud long thunder with the accompanying small building shake and window rattle.

DeathStar1 · 02-01-2007, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob Turnbull

Neil, is there a big construction site nearby? Where they might be doing some blasting? Near our building at work, they had been doing blasting about 6 months ago and it sometimes sounded a bit like loud long thunder with the accompanying small building shake and window rattle.

I was thinking about this as well, but blasting in this area is a bad thing. A few feet down and you'd hit ocean, hence why no one here has basements

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But even though sound travels far down here, I don't think we'd hear a blast sound from somewhere like say, Toms River. That's a few miles away..and they'd have to be doing an awful lot of blasting, because I just heard 4 more a few minutes ago as of 12:10, and another one as I typed.

So I don't no whut it is

Robert_J · 02-01-2007, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Neil V

I thought only Mach 3 was possible, so assuming it was a jet, 3 booms would be the limit..

You don't get a "boom" for each "mach". And Mach 3 is not the limit. The Aurora can hit Mach 6.

-Robert

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Jay H · 02-01-2007, 12:04 PM

Terrorist attack at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant (forked river, NJ)???

Maybe it's Turner Broadcasting again

Jay

DeathStar1 · 02-01-2007, 12:27 PM

Aqua Teen is based at the Jersey Shore, you know. Maybe the Moonites have landed here, and it's their spaceship that's making the noise

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Colton · 02-01-2007, 03:06 PM

Are they testing missiles in your area?

MarkHastings · 02-01-2007, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Neil V

A few feet down and you'd hit ocean

Godzilla??

Maybe it's the sound of hundreds of people fainting after having to pay $1,000 for a brownie.

note: you might need IE to play the video. It doesn't seem to be working in Firefox.

Michael Hein · 02-01-2007, 08:32 PM

Perhaps its HAARP?