albqbrian
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Mysterious booms in eastern Wisconsin...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MYSTERIOUS_BOOMS_W...
Loud, powerful booms like quarrying or heavy trucks. But none around.
Hey, wasn't someone here asking if there's any else in the upper Midwest? 
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bfesser
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A mildly intriguing article. Here's another <a
href="http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120320/GPG0101/303200083/Update-videos-Clintonville-continues-search-booming-noises?odyssey=mod|ne
wswell|text|GPG-News|s" target="_blank">more detailed article</a>.
Upper midwest, eh? I'm located in MN.
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A local news station in my area (Twin Cities, MN) just reported on this a few minutes ago. No details given aside from a 2 second sound/video-byte
from a geophysicist, Harold Tobin, who said they know it's "not an earthquake swarm". I look forward to hearing the results of the seismic
monitoring.
[Edited on 3/22/12 by bfesser]
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AndersHoveland
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Possibly the military could be testing a new type of pulse jet.
Particulary a spy plane called the "Aurora"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...
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the end
craZy jiM wGGns
--packrat, professional bum. -- once just tired
now REtired.
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bfesser
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In the middle of bumf*** Wisconsin? Unlikely.
jimwig, please explain your post.
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A recording would be nice.
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Maybe that happens to be where the test plane happens to go supersonic on its route?
It could also be some dude with some (illegal) fireworks. But they would have to be pretty big to be heard from that distance. I'd like to see some
of them. :-)
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I live in this area, and they just ruled it an earthquake (1.5 magnitude)
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| Quote: | | She said USGS representatives described the event as a swarm of several small earthquakes in a very short time. |
Quoted from the original link in this thread, which has apparently been updated by the Associated Press. I wonder if Harold Tobin regrets declaring
that they had ruled out an earthquake swarm.
Dr.Bob, that would be a strange flight plan... and supposedly the experimental scramjet aircraft in question, 'Aurora', only flies between Nellis AFB
in Nevada and Macrahanish RAFB in Scotland. The earth being a sphere, Clintonville wouldn't be in a reasonable flight path.
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It is probably some military experiment gone wild...
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it was probobly hissingnoise and rosco starting a new thread 
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Just 1.5 magnitude ─ waaay too small . . .
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
A Einstein
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cryoseism has my vote- deep glacial ice melting and causing overlying rocks to collapse. Accelerated by global warming.
"When you let the dumbasses vote you end up with populism followed by autocracy and getting back is a bitch." Plato (sort of)
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