Redbow
Senior Member
From the sky. I didn't want to hijack the post that Jeff C made on what he saw in the sky last nite so I decided to make this post.
But yesterday I was out in my shop for a while. I heard a C-130 aircraft flying over at pretty high altitude. Bogue Auxillary Field a Marine outlying landing field is just across the road from us and they were dropping Marine paratroopers every hour or so. My Wife and I often go out on the porch and watch the paratroopers drift down.
But as I came out of my shop listening to the drone of the C-130's engines I heard a loud cracking sound above our area up in the sky. It was pretty loud and the sound occurred about 5 different times. I looked up and did not see any smoke in the clear sky and the C-130 flew on towards Camp Lejeune. About 15 minutes later the loud cracking sound started again. It sounded kinda like someone breaking a piece of dry wood a very sharp cracking noise. I went inside and told the Wife about the noise and we went back outside so maybe she could hear it but the cracking sound did not occur again. I have no idea what it could have been, maybe something the military was doing.
I know many years ago a loud booming sound was heard by NC coastal residents pretty often. That sound was coming off the Ocean, many people seemed to be alarmed by the loud boom, it shook and rattled windows when it occurred. There were even a couple of TV broadcasts by a TV station in Wilmington NC about the loud booming. The Military was confronted about the noise off the Ocean but they denied they were responsible and didn't know what it was either. The booming went on for many years then suddenly it stopped. I think to this day the Military was involved with the loud booming as they have bombing ranges offshore, we have one not too far offshore from us and we hear the explosions from that area but its not the loud booming of years ago.
But yesterday I was out in my shop for a while. I heard a C-130 aircraft flying over at pretty high altitude. Bogue Auxillary Field a Marine outlying landing field is just across the road from us and they were dropping Marine paratroopers every hour or so. My Wife and I often go out on the porch and watch the paratroopers drift down.
But as I came out of my shop listening to the drone of the C-130's engines I heard a loud cracking sound above our area up in the sky. It was pretty loud and the sound occurred about 5 different times. I looked up and did not see any smoke in the clear sky and the C-130 flew on towards Camp Lejeune. About 15 minutes later the loud cracking sound started again. It sounded kinda like someone breaking a piece of dry wood a very sharp cracking noise. I went inside and told the Wife about the noise and we went back outside so maybe she could hear it but the cracking sound did not occur again. I have no idea what it could have been, maybe something the military was doing.
I know many years ago a loud booming sound was heard by NC coastal residents pretty often. That sound was coming off the Ocean, many people seemed to be alarmed by the loud boom, it shook and rattled windows when it occurred. There were even a couple of TV broadcasts by a TV station in Wilmington NC about the loud booming. The Military was confronted about the noise off the Ocean but they denied they were responsible and didn't know what it was either. The booming went on for many years then suddenly it stopped. I think to this day the Military was involved with the loud booming as they have bombing ranges offshore, we have one not too far offshore from us and we hear the explosions from that area but its not the loud booming of years ago.
