New Booms Heard In Clintonville Overnight

[hue]

http://www.wisn.com/news/30729320/detail.html

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. -- Mysterious underground booms have resonated again in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville.

Police dispatcher Tabitha Schoen said it was a quiet night in Clintonville until shortly after 5 a.m. when about 20 calls came in from residents who felt and heard the booms.

The booms, which have been compared to rumbles of thunder, sonic booms or fireworks, rattled homes and awakened some residents Sunday and Monday nights.

Authorities are at a loss to explain.

Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/30729320/detail.html#ixzz1pl7qlkMJ

[hue]

1. could someone be doing some "underground" mining??

[Ready4Change]

2. Sonic booms from long range recon flights?

If you were to accept that some black ops organization has a long range hypersonic replacement for the SR-71 in operation, and that it operates out of someplace in the south west like area 51, then Wisconsin would be along the shortest path to a number of areas of interest, like Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

[Viking12]

3. My guess is that it's related to the hot weather and the still frozen ground

Just a wild ass guess, though.

[hue]

4. I doubt Mother Nature times these rumblings for around 5:00 AM every morning!! n/t

[sybylla]

5. Urinal-Sentinal and HuffPost say the USGS reports them as micro-earthquakes

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/the-clintonville-booming-was-caused-by-a-15-earthquake-j74mshb-143878006.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/clintonville-wisconsin-earthquake-boom_n_1373767.html

Still seems more likely to have a man-made cause.

[HereSince1628]

6. They've been added to the recent earthquake map at USGS.gov

[CatholicEdHead]

7. I expect many people will get tin-foil hatty

As this is a delayed USGS report and many people will say it is a late excuse to cover up some ultra-top-secret government project.