BERKELEY (CBS SF) – Residents living in some Berkeley neighborhoods have been kept up at night over mysterious booms heard in the area over the past few weeks. It’s an unsolved mystery that even has police scratching their heads.
Rachael Marzoline told KPIX 5 about the boom she heard two nights ago. “I’d say it was around one in the morning, scared the hell out of me. I jumped out of bed,” Marzoline recalled.
Joel Bryant said he heard the booms at least eight different times in the last month. “We’re puzzled by it,” he said. “It’s not as crisp as a gunshot. It sounds like an aerial bomb explosion.”
According to Berkeleyside, the booms were first reported on February 26th. Most of the booms reportedly took place between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Despite numerous calls to police, authorities have not been able to determine what is causing the booms.
BORDENTOWN CITY — Mysterious, earth-shaking booms have been reported in recent weeks by dozens of Bordentown and Hamilton residents, and authorities are at a loss to explain them.
The most likely culprit, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, says it wasn’t them. While the military base routinely hosts artillery training on weekends and warns residents in advance, the mystery booms have come at odd hours and on weekdays when the range is inactive.
The latest boom jolted residents at 10 p.m. Monday. A closed Facebook group for Bordentown Township residents lit up with people asking each other, “Did anyone just feel that loud rumble?”
“Was in the garage and the garage doors both rattled hard and I could feel the rumble under my feet,” was one of a dozen replies.
A similar online conversation unfolded on March 19 after the noise was heard around 9 p.m. Another series of reports occurred on March 17, a Tuesday. Some have reported hearing several booms in succession during the span of an hour.
Residents in adjacent Hamilton Township in Mercer County also reported hearing the noise.
Bordentown City police they had heard about online chatter about the explosions, but no one there had fielded any calls about them. Bordentown Township police Capt. Norman Hand was unaware of the sounds Tuesday, and nobody in the police department was talking about it, he said.
As a lifelong resident of northern Burlington County, he is familiar with rumblings from the nearby base, he said.
The speculation has run rampant from earthquakes to environmental cleanup at an old steel mill site across the Delaware River to sonic booms from jets breaking the sound barrier.
The sounds are similar to those described in 2012 by residents in Manchester, Ocean County, where window-rattling booms plagued that area during the summer months and into the fall, according to news reports. Those explosions ceased soon after, without explanation.
Another possible source could be fighter jets from the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, which run training exercises for F-35 and F-16 fighter jets in an off-shore area that spans Ocean City, Maryland, to Atlantic City.
But a spokeswoman for the air station said their fighters do not normally fly at night and the Bordentown area is outside of their normal range.
“It was nothing from Pax River,” spokeswoman Connie Himple said. “That’s pretty far out of our airspace.”
Hand, of the Bordentown Township police, offered this possible explanation: the thawing of the ground due to the intense cold weather this winter. He said a few weeks ago, his wife heard a loud bang in their home, and he heard the same sound while watching television at about 10 p.m.
“It sounded like a car hit the back of our house,” Hand said. He checked the basement, and all his pipes were intact. He then learned from a television news program that the ground can make booming and loud cracking sounds when thawing from a prolonged cold period. “That’s just my two cents,” he said.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2015/04/bordentown_city_residents_report_mysterious_explos.html
I know I’ve doubted the BOOM hearers in the past, but now I wish I heard something as simple to explain.
What I did hear here is a jet passing over my head. The sound was clear, close, and unmistakable, and the only problem is that I couldn’t see any jet.
It happened twice. The first time was at night, under a clear sky. I could see every star in the sky, unobstructed in all directions, and I followed the sound of a jet passing directly overhead, but saw absolutely nothing other than stars, with nothing ever blocking my view of them. No flashing lights like you see on every other plane. No blockage of vision that an unlit plane might cause; just the sound of a jet, and absolutely NO visual confirmation that it was ever there.
I know they’ve been working on “cloaking devices” and invisibility technology, and I now suspect that they may have achieved that for airplanes, but by typing this, I feel as if I’ve fallen into the ranks of the crazy UFO witnesses. That’s what I saw, or more accurately, that’s what I heard and should have seen, and I have no way of explaining it other than the possibility of technology being used that the public is presently unaware of.
Perhaps the changes in Mother Earth’s core is a reaction that is in conjunction with the magnetic pole movement as theorized by Linda Moulton Howe in her interview on Coast to Coast AM on 3-26-15.
Part 1 – Ceres
Part 2 – Loud Booms
Part 3 – Conversations with Linda
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Perhaps it is our founding fathers spinning in there graves!