The San Deigo Union-Tribune is one of many newspapers carrying the story about a mysterious booming sound that has been heard from Maine to California.
This booming sound shakes windows and even furniture with a force that one witness described as a 4.5 earthquake.
USGS assures us that there were no such earthquakes, especially not one ranging cross-country. The FAA insists there were no supersonic aircraft operating in the areas where the booming was reported.
Here's a quote from the story: "Even UFO experts are baffled by what happened in San Diego. Asked whether a flying saucer might have caused such an event, Peter Davenport of the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center said, “Probably not.”
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It's really interesting to me that a 'UFO' has come to be synonymous with 'Flying Saucer'. It stands for Unidentified Flying Object. A flying squirrel could qualify. A brick. A new military aircraft. If you don't know what it is, it's "unidentified".
"Hey Fred - There's a weird unexplained sound coming from the sky... Do you think it could be something unidentified?"
"Nah."
This booming sound shakes windows and even furniture with a force that one witness described as a 4.5 earthquake.USGS assures us that there were no such earthquakes, especially not one ranging cross-country. The FAA insists there were no supersonic aircraft operating in the areas where the booming was reported.
Here's a quote from the story: "Even UFO experts are baffled by what happened in San Diego. Asked whether a flying saucer might have caused such an event, Peter Davenport of the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center said, “Probably not.”
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It's really interesting to me that a 'UFO' has come to be synonymous with 'Flying Saucer'. It stands for Unidentified Flying Object. A flying squirrel could qualify. A brick. A new military aircraft. If you don't know what it is, it's "unidentified".
"Hey Fred - There's a weird unexplained sound coming from the sky... Do you think it could be something unidentified?"
"Nah."
I was recently reading something that mentioned that you can't point at something in the sky and say, "Look, a UFO" because once you do that you have identified it, making it a UFO no longer.
ReplyDeleteI like that in the story someone asks a UFO expert if it's possible for a flying saucer to do this. Isn't that kinda like speculating whether or not Bigfoot takes his coffee black or with sugar and cream?
Actually Bigfoot doesn't drink coffee. He does, however, enjoy the occasional cup of herbal tea
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