Strange Sounds in the Sky: What Are They?

Out of the vast sky come sounds of trumpets, of metal grinding against metal, booming noise, buzzing, humming....

For over a decade there have been reports worldwide of 'strange trumpet like sounds' in the skies.  The explanations are varied and seem to have a 'toss it at the wall and see what sticks' line of thought.

The explanations offered include:

Apocalyptic horns - Religiously inclined tend to hear these are some sign of the end times, yet Biblically, there is little support for any warning trumpets of the random nature reported. What is in the Bible is from the Book of Revelation, where seven trumpets are sounded, one at a time, to cue apocalyptic events seen by John of Patmos in his vision1. The seven trumpets are sounded by seven angels and the events that follow are described in detail from Revelation Chapters 8 to 111. The trumpet sounds are meant to punctuate the Great Tribulation period with ever more disastrous effects2. Most of these trumpets and their effects have already been discussed in the section on World War III, because they reflect the worldwide consequences of a massive global war fought between the main military powers at the end2. (Wikipedia)

Sonic Booms. These are LOUD but also very, very short in duration. Duration of sonic boom is brief; less than a second -- 100 milliseconds (.100 seconds) for most fighter-sized aircraft and 500 milliseconds for the space shuttle or Concorde jetliner. (Wikipedia)

Aircraft - In the 1950-1970's populations near major flight bases or test sites were often subjected to regular sonic booms. Some instances, the government even conducted tests to see what impact they had on the population. Since then, however, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created guidelines to minimize the impact of sonic booms on the ground 1. According to the 49 U.S. Code § 44715, the FAA is responsible for controlling aircraft noise and sonic boom to relieve and protect the public health and welfare 2. The FAA prescribes standards to measure aircraft noise and sonic boom and regulations to control and abate aircraft noise and sonic boom 2. Sonic booms are not categorically illegal in the United States, but they are subject to certain regulations 1. Compliance with regulations is crucial to ensure the safety and well-being of communities.  Since not all the reported sounds have been over the USA, it is possible some are being caused by living in a country where there is laxity in protecting the communities from regular flyovers with attendant booms.

Sky quakes - Heard widely these are largely mysterious but are believed to be caused by any number of things, including air pressures , earthquakes, and weather fronts. A skyquake is a phenomenon where a loud banging sound is reported to originate from the sky. The sound may cause noticeable vibration in the ceiling or across a particular room. Those who experience skyquakes typically do not have a clear explanation for what caused them and they are perceived as mysterious. See Skyquake - Wikipedia

A careful hearing of the videos suffer from similar problems and cannot be taken seriously because of those issues.

Problems: Most videos or audio are suspect. They offer no real evidence that is supported by news articles, police reports, or similar evidence. It is too easy, and has been for several decades, for such things to be hoaxed. Playing with special effects and new video recorders can lead to some interesting results. They are often produced with heavy, sensationalized graphics, titles, wild theories, and bad music.

What would help support such a video?

• Captures of people unrelated to the one taking the video reacting to the sounds. even film in cities has been too void of traffic and people. Surely, if the noises were that loud and that long lasting....people would be out on the streets.
• A newspaper or broadcast - something - that would verify place and date and time.

View: The Proof Is Out There: 4 DISTURBING SOUNDS CAUGHT ON TAPE (youtube.com)

Interesting Sighting (Stroud, Oklahoma)

2023

Nov. 8

Initial photo by phone camera revealed little. It had moved away too quickly. The sky photographed is looking north/northwest. East is to the right and west to the left. A streetlight illuminated the tree. The object is barely seen in the top middle left. 

The depictions here reveal the "look" and the movements associated by the object. The graph shows the abrupt changes in movement. The witness first thought that it was an airplane or even a satellite - it was bright red with orange-white tones - but the sudden shift in position from #3 to #4 was sharp and sudden. It moved on to the northwest but then made another sharp change in location. These did not fit aircraft and the fluid, almost graceful movement of the object - glowing constantly - did not match any known object. The glow of the object was not lights (exteriors) or reflections. The conditions and movements did not match balloons or drones either.  Neither was the object a bird.

Lighting and changing contrast did reveal the object as it moved away to the north-northwest.

Earlier that evening the witness had gone out to check after a report of a odd exhaust trail was reported in OKC. See :Oklahomans curious about 'falling' object in sky Tuesday evening (koco.com)

So later - about 7:30 p.m. the witness went back outside just to see the sky and was checking the sky from various spots in the yard when the red light caught attention. \

ACCIDENTAL TRUTH: A MUST-SEE EVENT

I was able to finally view this documentary. Adding it to a longer list of "must see's" and being able to cross it off I can now comment on the documentary. I will say that I would encourage everyone - skeptic to true believer. It has the potential of bringing both from extreme ends of the spectrum to a middle ground were real dialogue - and research - can be conducted.

Much of the programs available suffer from low quality, overly dramatic presentations, lack of balance and/or criteria and a sensationalist approach to the topic. Accidental Truth, on the other hand, has an almost clinical, but engaging, approach similar to building a case in a court of law. Step by step the viewer is led to understand

High quality production values, a lack of hyperbole, and evidence of solid research earned high marks. 

Do put this documentary on your to-do list. 

Press Release: Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations (2023/05/03 AT Press Release: Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations – MUFON  )

New Documentary proves UFO Secrecy…

Narrated by Matthew Modine

Released Digitally on April 18, 2023

Written and directed by Ron James. Distributed by 1091.

Presented by MUFON Television

SEDONA, Ariz., May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — “Accidental Truth, UFO Revelations” is a breakthrough documentary about UFOs that is narrated by legendary actor Matthew Modine. The film features prominent scientists and unexpected government insiders revealing facts about secret programs studying technology and materials recovered from anomalous incidents, and what they discovered.

“Accidental Truth” presents a trail of elusive government paperwork, supported by sometimes reluctant and even “accidental” admissions by a first-rate cast of “those in the know.”

Critics from The Debrief said the film makes “The best case yet for crash retrievals and non-human interaction, a UFO film we can recommend.” The film presents nearly 70 years of information, delivered through revealing research and sometimes poignant exchanges with the film’s cast.

Filmmaker Ron James, who is also the Media Relations Director for MUFON, The Mutual UFO Network, had this to say: “We make the most compelling case for the UFO cover-up ever presented in a single documentary.  The history of the deception is being washed away by the current narrative, and we are stopping that from happening”

Narrator, Actor Matthew Modine said, “This is an important Film, and I was really happy to be a part of it.” Modine’s narration has already won a festival award for narration.  The film overall has won 9 festival and competition awards.

“Accidental Truth – UFO Revelations” is being called “a masterpiece” and “one of the best UFO documentaries of all time” by early reviewers. It is available across all the normal digital platforms such as Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, etc.

Produced by

Ron James, Matthew Modine, Adam Rackoff, Paul Davids, Jennifer Stein, Hollace Davids and Christopher O’Brien

Featuring

Congressman Tim Burchett, Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Gary Nolan, Ralph Blumenthal, Nick Pope, Col. John Alexander, Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Richard Dolan, Mike Bara, Jimmy Church, Dave McDonald, Ron James, Melinda Leslie, Cheryll Jones, Katie Griboski, Elizabeth April and Danny Sheehan

RT: 89 Minutes

ABC's of Reporting Something Seen

People reporting - in detail - what they have seen is crucial to understanding what is happening in Earth's skies and orbit.  Surveys of social media, however, reveal that people are hesitant about reporting - even to recognized UFO groups.  Two reasons are often expressed.

1) People refrain from reporting because "I reported, and nobody came out to investigate."

a. Not all groups have the volunteer power to send out people for every report. A triage approach is often used to classify the type of report submitted (low priority to a high priority and levels in between).  One person may have to deal with hundreds of reports with no help and thus the problem is clear.  Although every witness believes what they saw was exciting, rare, and highly strange it often can only be categorized in a most general "strange lights in sky" file of other reports lacking details.

b. Not enough information was included in the report to identify location, time, descriptions, etc. Often no names were given and no contact information. This makes it impossible to verify that the report is not a hoax or submitted by someone with an agenda contrary to real investigations.

2) People refrain, and urge others to refrain, claiming groups merely ignored them, swept it under the rug, or were dupes of the government.

a. There are currently about four groups (government and private) where people can file a report of something unusual. Instead of telling people to not use "X" - do urge them to use "Y" or "Z." To NOT do this makes the person appear mean spirited or having some kind of grudge. Neither is beneficial for research. 

So - keep reporting, recognize that volunteer groups are limited by the number of volunteers they do not have, and consider volunteering to learn and do more.

In our present culture there is a tendency to not read, do research, or study.

People seek "crowd source" answers - and you never know how smart or dumb the crowd might be. 

Simply because many believe one thing or another does not mean that is truth. 

Just because someone has a video on some social media platform does not mean they are not as crazy as a bat. So often the alleged "conspiracies" are simply ideas that arose as someone refused to let  the facts speak.  Hidden agendas, politics, troublemaking... Sources must be validated, tested and measured against the wider expanse of proven history or scientific fact.  

Tis the Season!

 

Friday the 13th, 2023 - Sighting

Location: Oklahoma Co., Oklahoma (eastern). On 1-40 Interstate heading west, just past the merger of I-40 and Kickapoo Turnpike. Traveling to Texas to observe the Solar Eclipse. 

Time: Approx 7:25 a.m.

Date: Friday, Oct. 13, 2023

Conditions: Mostly clear sky with some low, scattered and thin clouds. Heavier clouds further east obscuring sunrise slightly but sky was bright.

Observer was in the passenger seat with a clear view of the north and west skies. An intensely bright white light caught her attention. At first she thought it was either a planet or star but then decided it was too large and too bright. Second was the idea it might be a plane with landing lights on but as the object appeared to be moving in the same general westerly direction she was able to closely note that the object did not reflect light but rather created its own light. No landing lights were seen. No other colors than that intense bright light. 

When she observed the object, the shape was cube-like or square. When she saw it pass in front of one of those low clouds, she realized it was not a satellite, ISS, or a planet/star.

Her phone, at the time, was turned off and she knew she could not turn it on and focus in time to probably catch a clear image. So, she concentrated on watching it.  As she watched, she observed the initial "square" like seem to double, as if one was on the other side, only slightly off to the side. Then she observed that it elongated to become more "rectangular" than square or cube. Then it seemed to become almost elastic-like and appeared to stretch and reform itself. Finally, it was another cube or square, only slightly larger. 

At that time, the object disappeared. It was there one minute and then gone the next. Scanning the skies revealed no objects anywhere in any direction. 

Color: Self-illuminating brilliant white light. Not a reflection but light.

Size: Its apparent size ranged from the size of a BB to a small pea, if held at arm's length.

Lights: Despite long observation (3-5 minutes) no other colors could be seen. No regulation reds, greens, blues, or amber lights. No required dangling flags for low altitude drones.

Research: In trying to determine what it was the tracking information on ISS was checked with information the space station was not in the area to be seen (and was larger than an earlier experience seeing the space station pass), the BLUEWALKER3 satellite. yet examining their tracker info and viewing online videos of its movements it was large but too slow for the object observed. Additionally, Falcon 9/Starlink had no launches the day before or that morning (they had one that night...SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites on its second Friday launch – Spaceflight Now)

The following sketch was made after the sighting.

1. The initial square or cube form

2. The doubling image

3. The elongating image

4. The twisting like movement  image

5. The final and larger square.

Time to Update the Classifications?

Noted researcher J. Allen Hynek, in his 1972 book " The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry," laid out the three classes of "close encounters:"

• Close encounter of the first kind: Someone simply observes a UFO but it leaves no evidence. Hynek acknowledged that many sightings were of the "light" in the sky variety. He divided them into daylight lights and nocturnal lights.
• Close encounter of the second kind: A UFO leaves physical traces it was present, such as burns on the ground or broken branches.
• Close encounter of the third kind: A person makes contact with a UFO or other life form.

Since then, CE 4 - 7 have been toyed with but do not have a strong consensus.

• Close encounters of the fourth kind: A close encounter of the fourth kind is one in which a human is abducted by an extraterrestrial.
• Close encounters of the fifth kind: A close encounter of the fifth kind is one in which there is bilateral contact with an extraterrestrial entity. Many attempt to use intentional thought  (or lights) to instigate contact.
• Close encounters of the sixth kind: A close encounter of the sixth kind entails a UFO or its inhabitants directly causing injury or death. Many feel this should be under the CE-2 classification as such actions would be trace evidence. 
• Close encounters of the seventh kind: A close encounter of the seventh kind is one in which a human and extraterrestrial mate to produce a hybrid being.

CE1-The Kindergarten level of witness sightings. But a basic body of necessary information should be within the capabilities of all witnesses. Time, date, geographic location, direction of movement, shapes, colors, sounds, speed estimates, environmental conditions (raining, foggy, etc.). Witnesses should be encouraged to not let the video or photo say it all but explain the context through the elements mentioned. 

CE2- Trace elements - broken branches, indentations of objects, burn marks, odd residues should be handled with care.  Do not get too close so the area is not contaminated and you are not contaminated as well. Contact law enforcement but also take photos, sketch the scene, collect eyewitness statements, etc. Report to MUFON as well. 

CE3- Making contact involves touching a craft or speaking to an alien lifeform. 

CE4-Again, due to the problems of fear of ridicule and trauma, these are seldom reported and usually with little evidence or witness statement value. 

CE5- Hard to investigate because little data collection is being utilized. Instead, a focus on metaphysical, philosophical or spiritual aspects drive this approach and science and record keeping are not as important. Such experiential events seldom allow room for data collection, testing, and solutions. 

CE6- Hard to investigate due to the probability of such actions being classified or guarded by agencies and groups due to issues of safety and health. 

CE7- Hard to investigate. This would involve the need for DNA, blood, and trace evidence of many types to be studied by scientists from several fields.