(meteorobs) Double sonic boom heard?

[Dale]

and of course it is well known that sound will travel so much further with less attentuation over huge distances, the more rarified the atmosphere - in fact at the very edge of space a sensitive microphone can pick up the sounds of silence itself

fie on the Mogul 'explanation/guess' - it makes no sense at all

dale
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: GeoZay at aol.com 
  To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:38 PM
  Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Double sonic boom heard?



  >>then a news story was published on April 27, 2006 in the San  Diego 
  Union-Tribune stating that Scripps Institue scientists traced the boom  (with alleged 
  99% accuracy) to an offshore area dubbed by the US Military as  'Warning Area 
  291' (a restricted swath of ocean of the California  coast).  Ah, the US 
  military... again up to its secretive tricks.   Of course, spokesmen from all 
  military branches released quick statements  saying more or less "The boom was not 
  a result of any of OUR activity".   (I will refrain here from any 
  inappropriate politcal commentary).  <<
   
  This is pretty much old news for the San Diego area. Since about the 60's,  I 
  recollect hearing reports of a "Mysterious sonic boom" every once in a while. 
   I don't know how long ago I first heard that the sounds seemed to be 
  attributed  to a Navy gunnery training area somewhere far off shore. At least ten 
  years ago,  I've began hearing this...could have been longer. When the conditions 
   are just right, sound can carry a long distance. I guess that fact is what  
  Project Mogul was utilizing in 1947 to detect possible Soviet atom bomb  
  tests...Of course, when they lost one of those balloons over Roswell, New  Mexico, 
  some folks thought it was a UFO flown by aliens. :O) Ah, the US  
  military...again up to protecting our collective butts.  
  George Zay





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