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Title: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 01 December 2014, 22:52:28
Did anyone hear the loud bangs over the weekend?

Aurora project? Fireworks? Multiple asteroid strikes? Lightening? Sonic booms?


I'd post a link but unfortunately the best story appears to be from the Daily Fail (damn it) so I wont, but a quick google should reveal all to those that can be bothered.

Wouldn't the pilot be deaf by now though?  ;D


Sounds like fireworks to me but whatever.
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 December 2014, 23:23:36
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855802/Is-proof-mysterious-bangs-heard-sides-Atlantic-caused-secret-jet-Footage-hypersonic-engine-action-reveals-sounds-identical-unexplained-noises.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855795/So-secret-existence-not-acknowledged-Futuristic-Aurora-spy-plane-travels-SIX-TIMES-speed-sound-blamed-mysterious-booms-heard-weekend.html

Here you go Chris, not just one article from your favourite newspaper, but two to feast your eyes on!  :y

Didn't they close the A1 near Catterick thinking it was a terrorist attack or something?  :-\
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Seth on 01 December 2014, 23:38:43
Did anyone hear the loud bangs over the weekend?

Sounds like fireworks to me but whatever.

Me an' Geli (Kelly) was oop Narth perfecting our pyro (technical) skills at around the same time ... coincidentally ::)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 01 December 2014, 23:44:02
That's the one Tig.

....it can't be in two places at once though.
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 01 December 2014, 23:44:56
Did anyone hear the loud bangs over the weekend?

Sounds like fireworks to me but whatever.

Me an' Geli (Kelly) was oop Narth perfecting our pyro (technical) skills at around the same time ... coincidentally ::)
Practicing for next years oof bonfire night no doubt!
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 01 December 2014, 23:45:30
TB hasn't blown his new garage up already surely?
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Seth on 01 December 2014, 23:50:09
Did anyone hear the loud bangs over the weekend?

Sounds like fireworks to me but whatever.

Me an' Geli (Kelly) was oop Narth perfecting our pyro (technical) skills at around the same time ... coincidentally ::)
Practicing for next years oof bonfire night no doubt!



The OOF Xmas meal ... actually ::)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Seth on 02 December 2014, 00:01:01
TB hasn't blown his new garage up already surely?

Nope!

Been sworn to secrecy ... but TB our head honcho wasn't online much over the weekend ... ???
Neither was Mr Zok ... who kinda knew of a suitable launch site practise area on t'other side of the Pennines ::)

Summat of an OOF Anglo-Welsh conspiracy collaboration ... possibly? 8)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 02 December 2014, 00:07:41
That's the one Tig.

....it can't be in two places at once though.

Maybe there's more than one?  :-\

Or a Chinese/Russian effort perhaps?  :D  ;)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: 78bex on 02 December 2014, 01:24:18
I was surprised how far sounds travel, years ago in Pompey; I regularly used to hear the faint double boom on a still night; presumbably Concorde approaching the uk from the west.
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: joff on 02 December 2014, 06:06:59
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855802/Is-proof-mysterious-bangs-heard-sides-Atlantic-caused-secret-jet-Footage-hypersonic-engine-action-reveals-sounds-identical-unexplained-noises.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855795/So-secret-existence-not-acknowledged-Futuristic-Aurora-spy-plane-travels-SIX-TIMES-speed-sound-blamed-mysterious-booms-heard-weekend.html

Here you go Chris, not just one article from your favourite newspaper, but two to feast your eyes on!  :y

Didn't they close the A1 near Catterick thinking it was a terrorist attack or something?  :-\

That sounds like automatic gun fire to me, if it was Saturday or was it Friday night, then I was at work and it sounded like fireworks to me but the fog was down so hard to tell
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Gaffers on 02 December 2014, 12:18:25
Come on, we all know what it was......

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll138/mrgaffney/garage1_zps13f2674d.jpg)

 :-X
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: hawke113a on 02 December 2014, 17:51:43
i heard it too in leeds...early evening...thought it was fireworks(or gunfire..i live in the rough part lol)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 December 2014, 18:12:55
Just heard a sonic boom or something here  :o The cats ran upstairs under the bed  :(

UFO or something , what do you think Cem  ???
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 02 December 2014, 18:56:59
It was Captain Kirk in the Star Ship Enterprise entering our time warp.  Simple as that ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Vamps on 02 December 2014, 22:39:59
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855802/Is-proof-mysterious-bangs-heard-sides-Atlantic-caused-secret-jet-Footage-hypersonic-engine-action-reveals-sounds-identical-unexplained-noises.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2855795/So-secret-existence-not-acknowledged-Futuristic-Aurora-spy-plane-travels-SIX-TIMES-speed-sound-blamed-mysterious-booms-heard-weekend.html

Here you go Chris, not just one article from your favourite newspaper, but two to feast your eyes on!  :y

Didn't they close the A1 near Catterick thinking it was a terrorist attack or something?  :-\

That sounds like automatic gun fire to me, if it was Saturday or was it Friday night, then I was at work and it sounded like fireworks to me but the fog was down so hard to tell

Well we didn't hear anything up here, however listening to the tape of the noises on the link above, it sounded like gunfire to me, Like a Sunday morning round these parts when the farmers all go out shooting........ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: aaronjb on 03 December 2014, 11:18:33
Yep, sounded like a morning when the range was in use, having lived not that far from the range at an RAF base.

Definitely didn't sound the way I'd expect a jet powered by a pulse jet to sound - it's very random, with long pauses.. and if anyone is old enough to remember the way a doodlebug sounded in WWII, it wasn't like that at all (which was also rudiment ally the same technology, I believe)..
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Gaffers on 03 December 2014, 13:27:53
In my new house yo ucan hear the Engineers doing their demolitions training, even on saturdays.  After several years of service I find it strangely relaxing to hear
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: The Sheriff on 03 December 2014, 13:43:50
No loud bangs here, just some bastid who's too tight to get his house alarm fixed.
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 03 December 2014, 14:28:03
Yep, sounded like a morning when the range was in use, having lived not that far from the range at an RAF base.

Definitely didn't sound the way I'd expect a jet powered by a pulse jet to sound - it's very random, with long pauses.. and if anyone is old enough to remember the way a doodlebug sounded in WWII, it wasn't like that at all (which was also rudiment ally the same technology, I believe)..

On a serious note now, I agree aaron.  The V1's were a pulse jet with an unforgettable sound that is nothing like, what sounds to me fireworks being set off, with a very random detonation pattern.  Pulse jets are not random. :y :y
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 03 December 2014, 23:22:47
Hmmm, so my question is, what's the point in a "spy plane" that can, allegedly, be heard on both sides of the Atlantic....  at once?

Not very.... Stealthy.... Is it? ;D


....unless it's been and gone by the time anyone hears it of course. But even so, it's not like nobody will guess who owns it. ::)



Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 December 2014, 23:36:51
Hmmm, so my question is, what's the point in a "spy plane" that can, allegedly, be heard on both sides of the Atlantic....  at once?

Not very.... Stealthy.... Is it? ;D


....unless it's been and gone by the time anyone hears it of course. But even so, it's not like nobody will guess who owns it. ::)
You say that, but if you don't know which side of the Atlantic it is, that's pretty confusing...

BTW is Iceland still there? :-\
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: chrisgixer on 03 December 2014, 23:44:10
;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: kev2b4 on 04 December 2014, 08:54:27
I hope Iceland is still there -- got to go shopping tonight
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 04 December 2014, 09:09:55
I hope Iceland is still there -- got to go shopping tonight
Oh lordy, lordy, lordy... ::)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: kev2b4 on 04 December 2014, 13:31:10
Have to keep my gorgeous/infirm body alive with full-fat/salty products :)
Title: Re: Loud bangs from outer space, or fireworks?
Post by: omega squared on 05 December 2014, 17:09:59
it was not just in the UK the noises were reported in other countries as well. very odd.