(meteorobs) Double sonic boom heard?

[Rich Fleetwood]

No one has mentioned this, but the MIL did a test launch of an ICBM
yesterday...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061400590.html

..and I'm pretty sure these things go supersonic going downrange.

According to the article...

"The missile was launched at 1:22 a.m. and traveled 4,800 miles in about 30
minutes before its three warheads struck targets at the Kwajalein Missile
Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, according to a news
release from Vandenberg Air Force Base."

Could these be connected?

Rich


On 6/15/06, Dale <biscayne at snappydsl.net> wrote:
>
> 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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