Mysterious Booms Rattle Homes, Scare Livestock in Oklahoma

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

NORMAN, Okla. — Jan 9, 2015, 1:51 PM ET

A spate of mysterious booms has been shaking a city in central Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Geological Survey research seismologist Austin Holland says a series of thunderous booms rattled the Norman area at 11:19 a.m. Friday and that numerous more were reported in the same place around the same time Thursday.

Both Holland and National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Day say they have no explanation for the booms that have been rattling houses and frightening livestock in the city on the southern edge of Oklahoma City.

Holland says there have been no earthquakes close enough to the area to be the cause of the booms. Day says a phenomenon known as cryoseisms (kry-oh-SY'-iz-uhmz) which occurs when water freezes quickly in soil or rock, then expands and cracks is also not to blame.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/mysterious-booms-rattle-homes-scare-livestock-oklahoma-28117959

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Man, that's all fracked up.

Hey . . . . !

https://www.google.com/search?q=fracking+in+oklahoma+map&safe=off&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS583US583&espv=2&biw=1490&bih=915&tbm=isch&imgil=OOjpBl401Apa0M%253A%253BrNZo_aOjrMXKTM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Farticlechase.com%25252Fbeyondnews%25252Fshowthread.php%25253Ftid%2525253D8860&source=iu&pf=m&fir=OOjpBl401Apa0M%253A%252CrNZo_aOjrMXKTM%252C_&usg=__ihMl3vwphBj6vZG-qL3mGIo2wuc%3D&ved=0CCkQyjc&ei=sCawVJ3bFo2cygSgyIK4BA#imgdii=_&imgrc=OOjpBl401Apa0M%253A%3BrNZo_aOjrMXKTM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstrangesounds.org%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2014%252F03%252Foil-and-gas-wells-in-Oklahoma.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Farticlechase.com%252Fbeyondnews%252Fshowthread.php%253Ftid%253D8860%3B1224%3B806

[underpants]

2. Sharia C.H.U.D.s making their way to the surface

No doubt

[blm]

3. lololololol…….

damn you….I'll be chuckling on and off like a fool for days now.

[underpants]

15. Oh they know they are down there

Sharia is EVERYWHERE according to the OK whackos that's why they passed so many laws against sharia.

[blm]

18. lolololol….Sharia C.H.U.D.

Perhaps the booms are from underground cannon battles with Christian Identity C.H.U.D.

[underpants]

23. Yes!

It's like the last remake of Godzilla - the lizard wasn't created by nuclear testing, the nukes were attempts to kill IT. So, therefore, the fracking isn't being done to get oil they are trying to dampen the fuses on the CI and C.H.U.D. cannons. Either that or the "chemicals" are for C.H.U.D. extermination - Monsanto is probably involved somehow.

[blm]

29. stop….my ribs can't take it….

lololol

[phantom power]

26. you win today's internet

[DeSwiss]

35. Hehehehehehehehehehehe.......

[bemildred]

4. Ground farts. nt

[Taitertots]

32. Next time I hear an unexplained noise I'm going to say that like it was real

Weird creaking noise? House farts
Tire noise? Car farts

[Lodestar]

5. Interesting. Here's a similar story from Jan. 2013

Unexplained “Boom” Regularly Echoing Over Guthrie, Oklahoma

No one knows what’s causing it, but everyone can hear it: a loud, bone rattling “boom” that shakes the sky, causing locals to phone their friends (and the police), asking “what the hell was that?”

According to Mayor Chuck Burtcher, the noises are nothing new either, admitting that he started getting asked about them three months ago, but even he doesn’t know what’s unnerving his town, musing that the booms could possibly be from oil exploration (though they’re too far from town to cause such a noise, reported KFOR NewsChannel 4)

http://whofortedblog.com/2013/01/05/unexplained-boom-oklahoma/

And a facebook page dedicated to collecting similar stories:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mystery-Booms-Skyquakes/237258833075962

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. I can only express this in emoticons

[benld74]

7. Boomer Sooners?

[underpants]

13. Nooooo

[NaturalHigh]

30. Trust me on this...

My Sooners aren't capable of making that sort of noise this year.

[AlbertCat]

8. It's obviously god....

..... farting in OK's general direction....


because OK's mother was a hamster and its father smelled of elderberries.

[christx30]

24. What keeps texas from faing into the Gulf of Mexico?

Oklahoma sucks.

[VA_Jill]

9. And what

is "mysterious" about FRACK-A-BOOMS?
I guess Oklahoma officials are dumber than we thought.

[SpankMe]

10. Earthquakes are fairly quiet.

People think they make noise, but the noise just comes from the rattling buildings and stuff. I've been it an earthquake outdoors far from a structure, and there was just a whisper of sound.

I don't think that geologic events other than volcanic eruptions can cause such booms. Non-volcanic geologic activity really can't emit percussive waves into the sky in such a way that it rattles buildings and makes a loud boom sound radiating everywhere and reflecting off the landscape.

They did say there was no measurable seismic activity, and you'd have to see something if there was sufficient geologic activity to cause these sorts of sounds. The source of the booms has to be from the air above.

My guess is sonic booms from military aircraft. These generally don't cause detectable seismic activity, but do scare everything on the surface.

[underpants]

14. We had something like this here 10 years ago. It was a kid pulling a prank.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2069287

In my google search I see that happened again last year..... well something did.

[inanna]

16. This is a reasonable possibility, I think

Thanks for info.

[Helen Borg]

11. Godzilla?

[NBachers]

12. USGS earthquake map of Oklahoma

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

[shenmue]

17. Zombies.

[jtuck004]

19. Sounds like what we had from jets at Tinker breaking the sound barrier years ago.

OKC has the largest repair depot for military aircraft in a suburb called Midwest City, secret bombers and all that stuff. (they set off car alarms in the parking lot
when they take off).

Tinker Air Force Base.

[displacedtexan]

21. I thought the earthquake I was in on Tuesday was a sonic boom.

Then I remembered that we don't have those anymore. It was loud, and I wasn't even in the epicenter. i was in line for my flight at Love Field. It was a really loud boom.

[Liberalynn]

20. Has anyone called Giorgio from "Ancient Aliens" yet?

[Sunlei]

22. sonic booms from some pilot who will remain silent

[alfredo]

34. The sonic boom I heard was one loud boom followed with another softer boom.

[Cryptoad]

25. Ahhhh,,,

just some teabaggers testing some munitions !

[elias49]

27. Ruh roh! NT

[digonswine]

28. We had a bunch of this near me not so long ago-

http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/mysterious-booms-plague-wisconsin-town-120322.htm

Everyone was talking--quite unusual for this area.

[yourmovemonkey]

31. Did the booms come sweeping down the plain?

[Taitertots]

33. Mach 20 airplane testing. Gone before you hear a sound

http://www.ted.com/talks/regina_dugan_from_mach_20_glider_to_humming_bird_drone?language=en

[DeSwiss]

36. K&R

[undeterred]

37. UFOs