Did you hear it?...

Hell I don't live in Ohio but that sounds real weird.

I cant see how on earth ice thawing could make such a loud sound. This sounds to me like one of those cases from San Diego where some black project has flown over an area and set of seismic sensors. I wonder why there has been such an increase in odd activities in Ohio recently? I lived there for 26 years and never saw or heard anything. Now there has been an uptick in UFO related activity, minor earthquakes, and now this...

I feel like I should move back to catch some of the action.

People of OHIO...is there any stories, myths about your state? LOL

Are you above some frozen lake?.....I have no idea. Are aliens building a base? Military involvement!!!..what the hell is going on!!!?

Originally posted by antmax21
People of OHIO...is there any stories, myths about your state? LOL

Dayton Ohio is home to Wright-Patterson AFB. It is said to be the final destination and current location of the Roswell crash debris. It was rumored to host a live alien from the wrechage as well. I heard his favorite earth food is strawberry ice cream. (Ha Ha Ha)

Seriously though, check out some of the recent threads posted by Frozenthough. It seems the Great Lakes area, which is about 200 miles from the recent events in Columbus, Ohio, is a real "Hotbed" for UFO sightings.

Originally posted by Don Wahn
I wonder why there has been such an increase in odd activities in Ohio recently? I lived there for 26 years and never saw or heard anything.

I feel like I should move back to catch some of the action.

Perhaps the military has a new toy that they are testing near populated areas because everyone is looking at the remote, isolated areas like Area 51.

This is the first I've heard of this. I live close to Buckeye Lake and only heard ice cracking late Wednesday night.

In Heath, which is saddled next to Newark there is an installation called Central Ohio Aerospace Technology. I'm not quite sure what they do there - used to be a no trespassing sign up. The Air Force ran it and it was privatized in the early 90's. Something to do with metrology and calibration. The web site has a letter from Boeing stating they did work for the Air Force there - repair and manufacture of guidance and navigation products.

One thing sort of interesting is the railroad. Moving from East to West there is Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, then in Whitehall (enclave of Columbus) there is what used to be the DCSC - Defence Construction Supply Center. It served in every major military engagement since WWI and when WWII came around it was the largest military supply center in the world.

I grew up in Whitehall and lived 2 blocks from it. We called it the 'depot'. I attended Robinwood Elementary and you could look out the window and see the depot behind Town & Country Shopping Center. We used to have what they called "duck and cover" drills in case of nuclear attack. If you see the bright light duck and cover My dad used to tell me, that because of the depot we were probably 5th on a very short 'to do' list by the Soviets.

Continuing east you run into the Heath facility opereated by the Air Force.

I'll try and pay better attention and listen for strange sounds.

I heard a super loud and prolonged boom about a month ago, it woke me up but I was still really groggy. It actually hurt my ears. I asked my parents and brothers about it the next day, my mom says she heard it too and suggested it might have been a sonic boom from a jet, but my brothers hadn't heard anything; they were fast asleep.

I live in Kent, Ohio.

Wow.. I live In Indianapolis and this is the first I have heard of this. I am wondering for the witnesses (earwitnesses) on say a scale of 1 to 10 how loud was the boom you heard? I was up late one night last week letting out my Lab's and thought I heard a very faint boom which was weird..

Hey, I can actually comment on this one. I did not hear these sonic booms but about 10 years ago my friend and I had something like this happen in Ohio. This happened to me in a small town South East of Canton Ohio. It was around midnight. We were getting ready to head out to some parties and hang out with friends. I was in the bathroom when I heard the first boom. It was loud and it actually shook my parents house. Stuff on the bathroom shelves rattled. At the time I though a semi truck had just wrecked on our road. It was that type of a sound. My parents live close to route 30 and trucks had a habit of crashing at night on the sharp bends. It was not thunder. It was a clear summer night and it did not sound or feel like thunder. I though I was going to pinned at my parents by an accident but before I could even leave the house another boom went off and the house rattled again. A few minutes later my friend called me (he lived just down the road) to see if I heard and felt those strange booms. Of course I said yes and then I headed over to his house. There wasn’t any accident on the road. While we were standing outside in his yard there was a third loud boom. The boom was loud, strange and you could feel it. We could not see anything in the sky and besides the booms the area was quiet. We decided to drive around for a while and see what happened. We drove the area for the next couple of hours. It got really foggy, we didn’t hear any more booms and we never found out what was causing them.

Originally posted by GArnold
Wow.. I live In Indianapolis and this is the first I have heard of this. I am wondering for the witnesses (earwitnesses) on say a scale of 1 to 10 how loud was the boom you heard? I was up late one night last week letting out my Lab's and thought I heard a very faint boom which was weird..

for me it would be around a 7 or 8, it was incredibly loud but low and constant for a while. I couldn't go back to sleep until it stopped.

maybe one of the airforce guys could back me up or refute me on this one...

but i thought that pretty much every law dealing with supersonic aircraft over anywhere with any kind of population, including livestock prohibeted planes from going fast enough to cause sonic booms anymore. that includes the military. thats why most tests are run in the south western desserts.

am i wrong about this?

sure, could be a black op, but why on earth would the military do anything that would draw attention to a secret project? and to admit it would just cause them more problems cuz wasnt there a legal case against the govt about sonic booms 'causing distress' in some ranchers cattle a few years back?

just a thought.

Because that would sure explain a lot of the noise that you are talking about.