Rumble in Northern Utah yesterday afternoon

[Herzog]

Did anybody hear or feel that strange rumble yesterday? I forgot about it until I saw this article:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55595614-78/felt-lake-salt-utah.html.csp?utm_source=twitterfeed

The article says it happened in the evening, but I felt/heard it around 12:45-1:00 PM three times.

I was walking into Smiths and I felt what seemed like a shockwave and a rumble from the West mountain range. I then noticed it two more times within that hour.

Weird.

-edit: some of the comments in the article are talking about the ones I noticed earlier in the day too.

 

[Herzog]

Seems they were sonic booms but nobody is fessing up: http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/01/08/mysterious-sonic-booms-worry-residents-davis-weber

 

[DAA]

Interesting.

I heard and felt something like this about a week ago while walking my dog along Legacy Parkway. It was loud enough and I felt it so clearly that I was really surprised not to hear anything about it on the news or anything.

- DAA

 

[rholbrook]

I heard it last night three times. Sounded like thunder a long way away. Makes you wonder what they REALLY have going in and out of HAFB at night.

 

[sLcREX]

I don't think I heard anything out of the norm but I might've....did the ground or walls shake?

Around 9'ish one of the dishes on the stove clattered, I thought it was ghosts being jerks but maybe it was the rumble

 

[Johnny Quest]

"it's just the wind" [puts on tin foil hat]

 

[rholbrook]

It just went off again.

 

[Herzog]

I'm hearing This says it's B-52's from Louisana dropping ordinance here in UT...

http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/01/09/b-52-test-bombings-blamed-sonic-booms

 

[Herzog]

KSL picked up the story too: https://www.ksl.com/?sid=23674721&n...pping-ordinance-more-to-come&s_cid=featured-2

So do we get to drop some ordinance on them in return?

 

[Hickey]

KSL picked up the story too: https://www.ksl.com/?sid=23674721&n...pping-ordinance-more-to-come&s_cid=featured-2

So do we get to drop some ordinance on them in return?

Come out to my house Saturday morning and we'll do our best.

I've seen those bombers over wendover this week.

 

[mbryson]

Those are old beetches (the B-52). 60 year old airframes

 

[Kiel]

Those are old beetches (the B-52). 60 year old airframes

Did you fly in them when you were a kid?

 

[skiboarder]

I still think it was some secret military jet.. Maybe the aurora.

 

[Herzog]

I still think it was some secret military jet.. Maybe the aurora.

I read this somewhere else too. The B-52 story could be a good cover for a secret project flying around. Seems strange to be "testing" such an old plane.

 

[mbryson]

Did you fly in them when you were a kid?

b-29s




ouch....those are a wee but older than even me

 

[bobdog]

I read this somewhere else too. The B-52 story could be a good cover for a secret project flying around. Seems strange to be "testing" such an old plane.

Several years ago a very large runway was constructed at Dugway Proving Ground. The people that were working on it (Granite Construction) were told it was for a possible space shuttle emergency landing. Never made any sense to me with the scheduled end of the program so near.

 

[trevortoyota]

Hehe, my squadron is flying up from Vegas and using the range up there. 2000 bombs make a little rumble some times.

 

[jentzschman]

Several years ago a very large runway was constructed at Dugway Proving Ground. The people that were working on it (Granite Construction) were told it was for a possible space shuttle emergency landing. Never made any sense to me with the scheduled end of the program so near.

Interesting...

 

[Caleb]

Hehe, my squadron is flying up from Vegas and using the range up there. 2000 bombs make a little rumble some times.

I've seen some huge explosions out on the range (and felt them when I was on the lake) but I don't think we've ever felt them all the way down in the valley.