[meteorite-list] Mystery Boom Rattles New York Neighborhoods

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:06 2004
Message-ID: <006401c34d51$cd2bdf00$d7e16a44_at_ph.cox.net>

I used to live two miles from the intersection 23 years ago. Used to be
housing interspersed with wooded areas.

Mark
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From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Mystery Boom Rattles New York Neighborhoods


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> http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0714MH16LFJ_boom14_news.shtml
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> Mystery boom rattles Greece neighborhoods
> Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York)
> July 14, 2003
>
> A loud sound shook houses in town Sunday morning and sent
> some residents scurrying into the street.
>
> However, area fire departments reported that there was nothing
> wrong on the ground.
>
> Several area residents in the Ridgewood Road and Benjamin Avenue
> area said they heard a house-rocking sound about 10:47 a.m. Sunday.
>
> Calls to two area firehouses turned up no known source of the noise;
> no fire calls were received at North Greece fire stations No. 1 and
> No. 2.
>
> One fire department member speculated that the noise was a sonic
> boom -- which can be generated when a plane travels faster than the
> speed of sound (about 742 mph at sea-level) -- and could have been
> created by a jet either from the U.S. or Canadian air forces.
>
> No one was available for comment from either agency on Sunday.
>
> The U.S. Coast Guard in Rochester had no information about the source
> of the noise.
>
> Neither did the air traffic control supervisor at the Greater
> Rochester International Airport.
>
> Carrie Ringland, a member of the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group in
> Geneseo, Livingston County, said the noise was not from a jet
> involved with Sunday's annual air show.
>
> "We had no jets go by this morning,'' she said. "We had one
> scheduled to fly over at 1 o'clock,'' Ringland said.
>
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