Yippee-yi-yo-o-o-o! Weird noises innnnn the sky!

I completely missed all this when it was allegedly happening—until I stumbled on a Youtube video this morning. Now, it was made by two radio station guys so I was skeptical—until I saw this one. Of course the comments on the second one make it clear the sound is taken from a previous video (though not the Amarillo video at the first link), but I was viewing these on my TiVo, which doesn’t make comments available.

Anyway, both of these are obviously hoaxes. The first appearance of the soundtrack is a video purportedly made in Kiev, which itself may be a hoax—unless it’s the sound of Chernobyl-radiation-created zombies rising from their graves to feast on the brains of the living…

The more recent booming noises heard in Wisconsin, and the “hum” described in news video from Canada, suggest there is something going on though, even if the interviewed scientist sounds a little too smug with his explanation. Unexplained acoustic phenomena are nothing new, ranging from percussive noises associated with particular locations (not just sonic booms at Area 51, either) to swishing sounds claimed to come from the Northern Lights (in five years in Alaska I saw countless displays but never heard the sound) to sky whispers at Yellowstone.

Even so, it’s odd that several months of alleged sky noises don’t seem to have caught my attention until now (except, of course, for the Wisconsin thuds, which I found from either Drudge or Instapundit). You’d think if these things were really happening “all over the world” as one blogger claims, we’d have heard more about it, like we did with the eerie night spiral over in Europe.

I have not knowingly heard anything like these noises. I live under an approach path for Atlanta’s airport though, so maybe the weird ones just get drowned out…

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