Originally posted by unknownsoldier69
The idea of it being aliens is irrational.

Oh why is that unknown soldier? Aliens do not exist?

Chris,
I don't know what happened in your area. I live in South Alabama near the coast. I've read many stories of strange goings on in many other states and I believe your story. Please keep us all posted and pay no mind to the rude skeptics here!

Good luck with your findings.

Tusker

Originally posted by Gwampo
WOWWWW LOOK AT YOU OP!!
pretty stars and flags though.. whats that? nothing came of this?

shame

good grief. EVERY SINGLE post that gets a decent amount of attention has to get the standard ATS "you're lying for stars and flags" comment. as if people actually care about stars and flags.... ironically the rude comments that claim the OP is just trying to get stars and flags GET STARS AND FLAGS.



back to the OP.... i would go nuts trying to figure out what the heck happened. i googled but didn't find any news of it. it must be something the authorities don't want people to be aware of.

One thing is for sure, if there were truly anti-aircraft weapons going off, helicopters and all that jazz.. there would definitely be SOME kind of news or witness reports.. AA weapons are anything BUT descrete.. throw choppers into the mix, loss of power and cell service and you're bound to have a town of curious people speaking up, taking pictures, posting blogs and youtube videos.

I'm going with a transformer as well.. When we had an ice storm two winters ago, there were transformers blowing left and right.. then a substation went up.. it sounded like a battle.. but even then it was in the news the next day.

Originally posted by miniatus
One thing is for sure, if there were truly anti-aircraft weapons going off, helicopters and all that jazz.. there would definitely be SOME kind of news or witness reports.. AA weapons are anything BUT descrete.. throw choppers into the mix, loss of power and cell service and you're bound to have a town of curious people speaking up, taking pictures, posting blogs and youtube videos.

I'm going with a transformer as well.. When we had an ice storm two winters ago, there were transformers blowing left and right.. then a substation went up.. it sounded like a battle.. but even then it was in the news the next day.

I never said it was weapon fire, I just said that's what it sounded like. I also said that my stepfather works for Entergy, and he said there were no transformer or powerstation issues.

I am aggrivated that I've found little about what occured. This thread may fall in obscurity, but the fact I've never experienced anything out of the norm, will make this experience unique to me. Until something even weirder comes along.

What you heard, or thought you heard, were nothing more than. ....ah never mind, even if I wanted to debunk it, I can't think of a single spin to put on it. I am looking around here for some things to focus on besides my own fears and such. . .so I guess I'll indulge those of others.

Formulate your theories, investigate, perhaps write a short story about what you experienced, then, let the income generated by your science fiction novella or your DVD expose fund your true research.

The way into the hen house is to become a sympathetic fox. And while you're at it, might as well be empathetic too.

This intrigues me, and makes me wonder how "they" were not able to erase these events totally from memory. Then again, homeland security could have been running an urban warfare exercise. . .happens all the time.

I'm in MS and want to know more haha.

HI OP
HI ATS,

Just my two cents...
First of, before i get into a somehow similar event that happened to me I would like to say that our subconscious desire of "exciting and out of the ordinary" events can very often be a catalyst that turns a peculiar or rare explainable event into a peplum.
In our regulated and sometimes linear lifes we seek the extraordinary. THis is why it is often said that only 5% of unexplained phenomenons are truely mysterious. We tend to want/need to create the extra-ordinary...
This said, let me please give you a brief account of what happened to me in early June 2004 in Lausanne Switzerland.
I was at the time studying engineering at Uni and was renting a small appartement in a little village along the coast of lake Leman called Lutry.
My bedroom was on groundfloor with a sliding window giving on a small garden with a view on the lake, surround by large and magestuous mountains. I used to find this place very boring at the time. It was a small town totally dead in winter (ironically would be very happy to live there again now).
Anyway. I was having lunch outside facing the lake. The weather was fairly hot for the season and the sky was blue with a few large clouds. I do not remember exactly at what speed it happened but I suddenly notticed the weather had changed. A strange fog started to advance on the lake, like a low cloud. Faster than I could realise the whole lake was covered by an incredibely thick haze.
The whole air was a dense off-white color and visibility over the lake and background montains was none.
This is when I started hearing the BOOMS.
I was so surprised that I really thought something had exploded around me. It didn't sound like storm. It was a dry, clear and loud boom. Exactly like a sound bareer being broken. Then came other explosions, sometimes they were very close to each other, really like an exchange of fire.
I was totally astonished and my brain just couldn't process what was happening. Was there a military exercise on the lake??? In such a weather??? In a civilian area???
Also, I remember a deep, monotone rumbling sound, like a static get engine in a close distance. A totally imposibble to locate enormous get engine.
It lasted maybe 30 mn... I stood there staring at the white nothingness listening to some unidentified explosions.
Then "as fast as it had started" it stopped. In 30 mn, the haze dissipated and it was like all this had been a dream.
I will never know what happened that day. I do know the weather(specially in mountain areas) can be very surprising and I would not be surprised if this could be explained by some rare storm event.
Nevertheless it was one of the most unsetting experience I ever had

All the Best,

Logi_ciel