Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 8:35:09 GMT -6
Mystic Wanderer - you're going to have a field day with this!
Around the world, strange, trumpet-like noises have been reported coming out of the sky. I was convinced that they were either hoaxes or misidentifications, until this morning. Here is the tale:
Just after 08:30 this morning, Grace and I were sitting outside smoking and enjoying the morning yakking. I heard a fairly faint noise that I couldn't identify, and as is my habit I made the hand signal for "quiet", and we listened. At first the noise was fairly faint, and we could not determine it's direction, because of the acoustics in these mountains - some times, because of the echos off of the hillsides, it's hard to determine a direction for a noise. After hearing it a few times, Grace said it was coming from the northeast, but I was still convinced it was coming from a more westerly direction. We were in agreement, however, that it was coming from "up" of whichever direction... it was coming out of the sky.
We listened to it for 10 minutes or so. At first, it was kind of eerie, because all of the birds which normally are rioting around the house were deathly silent, and all we heard other than the sky noise was bugs buzzing and crickets chirping. Over time, it got louder, which we interpreted as moving, coming closer, and then it started getting fainter, or moving away, and the birds started singing again. It was about that time that Grace got the idea to record it for posterity, and she went and got the camera while I made a pot of coffee.
I'll post the resulting video here in two versions. they are the same, but I processed the video to cut down the file size for lower bandwidths. The audio is the same, but the frame size has been reduced from 1280x720 to 857x450 I believe, cutting the video size down from nearly 400 MB to about 75.5 MB. The video isn't important - who really wants to see a boring view of my yard, the cliff we're perched on, and the drawbridge below it through the tree cover?
There are six instances of the sound in the video, which runs just over 2 1/2 minutes. By then, the sound was getting fainter, and the 5th instance was drowned out by a curious humming bird who came to poke around and try to figure out what the devil we were doing. Grace offers running commentary, and marks each instance of the sound. She managed to get a shot of the humming bird as well.
No idea what this is, only that we've never heard it before. We eventually determined that it was coming from the sky, from the north-northeast, and echoing off the hillside to the west. When it was louder, that was pretty clear - we heard it out of the northerly direction first, THEN off the western hill.
Here is the full video - you may have to turn up the sound or use headphones, as it is getting fairly faint by this time:
The humming bird comes along at about the 1:00 minute mark, and drowns out one instance of the sound. Right after the humming bird, you'll hear me come outside and ask if it's still there, by which time it was "going away", or getting fainter, and having longer intervals between sounds.
I have no idea what this sound is, and we've never heard it here before - and I never heard it when I was a kid growing up around here, either. NASA says these noises are actually coming out the the Earth, but it definitely sounded to me to be coming from skyward. I've heard bears, mountain lions, bobcats, foxes, traffic, and all manner of other noises here before, but never this. Can't say just exactly what it is, because I don't know, but it was definitely a real sound - the camera heard it, too. We weren't having a group hallucination (my first thought), unless the camera was hallucinating, too. I'm glad Grace was around to think to record it - if she weren't here to think for me, I'd probably forget to put my pants on in the mornings!
That's all I can think to include for now.When the small version of the video gets finished processing at YouTube, I'll post that link as well... IF it ever gets done processing. It says it's in a "processing queue" at the moment. Edit: never mind. YouTube already cut the full version down to 13.46 MB, so there is no need for me to post the low-bandwidth version I made.
Around the world, strange, trumpet-like noises have been reported coming out of the sky. I was convinced that they were either hoaxes or misidentifications, until this morning. Here is the tale:
Just after 08:30 this morning, Grace and I were sitting outside smoking and enjoying the morning yakking. I heard a fairly faint noise that I couldn't identify, and as is my habit I made the hand signal for "quiet", and we listened. At first the noise was fairly faint, and we could not determine it's direction, because of the acoustics in these mountains - some times, because of the echos off of the hillsides, it's hard to determine a direction for a noise. After hearing it a few times, Grace said it was coming from the northeast, but I was still convinced it was coming from a more westerly direction. We were in agreement, however, that it was coming from "up" of whichever direction... it was coming out of the sky.
We listened to it for 10 minutes or so. At first, it was kind of eerie, because all of the birds which normally are rioting around the house were deathly silent, and all we heard other than the sky noise was bugs buzzing and crickets chirping. Over time, it got louder, which we interpreted as moving, coming closer, and then it started getting fainter, or moving away, and the birds started singing again. It was about that time that Grace got the idea to record it for posterity, and she went and got the camera while I made a pot of coffee.
I'll post the resulting video here in two versions. they are the same, but I processed the video to cut down the file size for lower bandwidths. The audio is the same, but the frame size has been reduced from 1280x720 to 857x450 I believe, cutting the video size down from nearly 400 MB to about 75.5 MB. The video isn't important - who really wants to see a boring view of my yard, the cliff we're perched on, and the drawbridge below it through the tree cover?
There are six instances of the sound in the video, which runs just over 2 1/2 minutes. By then, the sound was getting fainter, and the 5th instance was drowned out by a curious humming bird who came to poke around and try to figure out what the devil we were doing. Grace offers running commentary, and marks each instance of the sound. She managed to get a shot of the humming bird as well.
No idea what this is, only that we've never heard it before. We eventually determined that it was coming from the sky, from the north-northeast, and echoing off the hillside to the west. When it was louder, that was pretty clear - we heard it out of the northerly direction first, THEN off the western hill.
Here is the full video - you may have to turn up the sound or use headphones, as it is getting fairly faint by this time:
The humming bird comes along at about the 1:00 minute mark, and drowns out one instance of the sound. Right after the humming bird, you'll hear me come outside and ask if it's still there, by which time it was "going away", or getting fainter, and having longer intervals between sounds.
I have no idea what this sound is, and we've never heard it here before - and I never heard it when I was a kid growing up around here, either. NASA says these noises are actually coming out the the Earth, but it definitely sounded to me to be coming from skyward. I've heard bears, mountain lions, bobcats, foxes, traffic, and all manner of other noises here before, but never this. Can't say just exactly what it is, because I don't know, but it was definitely a real sound - the camera heard it, too. We weren't having a group hallucination (my first thought), unless the camera was hallucinating, too. I'm glad Grace was around to think to record it - if she weren't here to think for me, I'd probably forget to put my pants on in the mornings!
That's all I can think to include for now.