No theory, but -

Monday night, March 2-3, my dog jumped into bed with me. She hasn't for years, and only then on really stormy nights with lots of thunder and lightning. ...No storm, and I checked - no major earthquakes anywhere.

Sounds like a related (albeit unexplained) phenomena to me.

Ok.. this is really really weird.. but the same thing happened this night at 5 am (local time) here in Águeda, Portugal. I woke with it and also because all dogs in the neighbourhood were barking like mad.. And also no report of earthquake what so ever..

Edit: I made some time zone calculations and.. that event ocurred at same time than here.. According to news source it ocurred at 9 pm there.. the difference in time between Portugal and California is 8 hours..

[edit on 4-3-2009 by Picao84]

Hi, rattled ATSer.

It looks much like what I did see in the X-files, when a
bizarre "vehicule' flew over them, and there was a change
of personnalities between Mulder and another guy. . . B-)

For YOUR experience, my guess is:
an electro/magneto/gravitational/anti-gravitational **vehicule**
flew over your spot. . .

Blue skies.

I will chime in here from N. Cal. This morning around 9:30ish I thought we were having an EQ. Windows rattled and there was a slight 'boom' in the air. Not a 'pow' boom, but more mellow. I was ready to duck and roll, then nothing.

All over, weird things are beginning to happen.

I'm going to guess underground blasting somwhere not to far from you. do you know of any highway or tunnel construction going on or perhapse there is a mine they are working in.

We had an enormously loud sounding plane (we think) go over us last night. We commented on how low it must have been as it sounded as if it was going to hit our home.
Today - there was another one - this time I was outside and witnessed a very loud - and very low military looking jet. Very unusual looking.
Perhaps they are doing some military testing here?

Very unsettling.

Thanks for the links, Illusions...

I'm a little disappointed in the USGS 'explanation', particularly in the section where they attempt to dispel any speculations by 'educating' us on what the phenomenon is NOT, including this bit of naivete:

{...it is not:}Top secret military activity: the problem with this explanation is that it’s too easy. Centuries ago people called on magic the same way. There’s no way to disprove this idea as a cause of Seneca guns, because if it’s top secret we won’t know about it, but I’ve never seen any reason to take the explanation seriously. Sure, the military has lots of secrets, but something big enough to cause Seneca guns in so many regions, including India, would be really hard to keep secret. One of the great things about America is that it’s hard to keep big secrets here. Most of us, including me, would be eager to share a really big secret with friends and family, and if we weren’t lots of reporters would be glad to do it for us.

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Especially where the writer flat-out declares that the military would be unable to keep something 'this big' a secret. Ha HA ha! First of all - a sonic boom or whatever is NOT all that "Big" as far as secrets go. Second, and even more laughable, is the writer's assertion that since he and his family would be "eager to share a big secret" that of course means that everyone in the military/industrial community would do so as well. Gimme a break. His corollary: Since know one has blabbed to the MSM, then no secrets exist. Sheesh. This guy needs to step out of his closet a bit further.

Anyway - thanks for some interesting reading nonetheless. There were some fascinating facts in there. Not an answer to what this phenomena was as yet - and a few 'opinions' that were hardly realistic, much less scientific, but interesting anyway.

Yeah Shakes - I know what you mean...

But, like you, I've lived in So Cal a l-o-n-g time and I've never once experienced this kind of effect from ANY military aircraft in the skies around here - and the skies in these parts are ALWAYS buzzing with stuff. Why only just now - just this one time? Over 400 local people have now written in to the news outlet - this clearly something nobody around here is used to...

Update: Darn it! The local news outlet has just changed their lead-in story! I should have grabbed the first press releases when they came out this morning.

Anyway - They now have some expert on there that they are quoting as saying that it was in fact a sonic boom that occurred in the skies offshore over the Pacific and 'rolled' on shore rattling thousands of houses like no sonic boom I've ever experienced - and I've felt/heard many.

Somehow the expert glosses over the fact that his sonic boom was not at all "sonic". From what I see, a majority of the posters on the news thread aren't buying it either. Some pilots and counter-experts have weighed in challenging the explanation now given.

Seems like the news people are now trying to put a lid on the story. Make it go away and everybody just 'move along - nothing to see here..."

Why would they do that?

Interesting how so many people thought their homes were being broken into. All the animals seemed to react to it as well.

Could this be a weather related incident?
It seems odd that everything rattled but no movement felt on the ground, which is why I'd think it originated from the upper atmosphere, rather than in the ground.

I live near a train track and so windows will rattle, pictures on the walls etc, but of course I'll feel it if I'm sitting down as well. It can feel like small tremors, so I wouldn't immediately recognise a smalll quake if one were to occur.

[edit on 5-3-2009 by violet]

Originally posted by Outrageo
As a Physical Geog professor

Great to have such expertise on the boards,

I'm leaning toward a non-sonic type boom

Please educate me, I am a bit confused to say the least.

From the explanation you have given and links shown and checked, this affected all things within the Atmosphere.

It was obviously a atmospheric type event, you know rapid change in Air pressure and such like, whatever it was it occurred using the medium of Air to propagate the Energy.

I am sure from what you have said, the EQ reports showing no transference of the energy from the ground to all these houses etc, that we must be in agreement it therefore as stated above had to be transferred somehow in the medium of the Atmosphere, to include all the Air within it.

How then is it possible for any Non SONIC TYPE BOOM to occur within the atmosphere?

If it goes through the Air/Atmosphere it has to be by its very nature and very simple high school and college science be understood as having to be an Sonic Boom.

I am unaware of energy moving in the Air in any other way that could explain this, and I am very confused due to your above statement that you believe it could as well.....

If it was a Thermal Boom lol the houses would catch on fire before they opened and shaked.
We Know Kinetic energy travels in the atmosphere as sound waves, or as wind with pressures falling and rising etc,
Electrical energy being liberated would turn into electrical and lightening, Chemical energy could only create an Explosion and thermal etc, we will leave the ridiculousness of nuclear out of this, Magnetic does not interact with Wooden doors as described.

What form of energy or type of boom do you think is possible then in the medium that carried it in your experience? Thermal and Potential may I suppose in extreme circumstances create a massive downdraft etc, extreme weather, but the wind recordings show for that time in Calif just normal for season. I am sure you checked that.

Perplexed to be honest, both by the event and some of your post's statements of facts.

Elf