Post by MCDemuth on Dec 23, 2017 2:46:54 GMT
The Kokomo Sonic Boom
"UFOs & Sonic Boom"
Kokomo, Indiana
April 16, 2008
Approximately 10:15 PM
"UFOs & Sonic Boom"
Kokomo, Indiana
April 16, 2008
Approximately 10:15 PM
Citizens all over the Kokomo area, experienced a mystery explosion, that shook homes, and even caused some minor damages to them...
At least one witnesses reported seeing an unknown craft in the area... Other citizens told authorities, they saw flare-type lights in the western sky immediately after hearing the noise...
One witness said: "After the boom, my father & I, saw lights to the west. But they weren't moving at all. They were completely stationary, a whitish yellow, and pulsed 3 times and disappeared. I don't know why I would see lights like that AFTER the boom if it was something falling to the ground."
One witness said: "After the boom, my father & I, saw lights to the west. But they weren't moving at all. They were completely stationary, a whitish yellow, and pulsed 3 times and disappeared. I don't know why I would see lights like that AFTER the boom if it was something falling to the ground."
Transmissions on the police scanner, indicated, that all available units "(county, city and state police, from 2 different counties)" were dispatched to find the source of the sonic 'boom". Many emergency responders in the region, were under the impression that there had been a Plane Crash...
Early Investigators Had Reported: "All airports and government establishments had been contacted, and denied any air action in that time period"... Grissom AFB and the National Guard in Fort Wayne, Indiana had been contacted, and at that time, they reported that they had no involvement.
Early Investigators Had Reported: "All airports and government establishments had been contacted, and denied any air action in that time period"... Grissom AFB and the National Guard in Fort Wayne, Indiana had been contacted, and at that time, they reported that they had no involvement.
About 45 mins into the search, a county official came over the radio and with a shaking voice, and "confirmed he was at the scene"...
"Suddenly after the official confirmed the info about the scene, they briefly kept calling it "an astronomical incident" and shortly after, all units were told they were dismissed from the search, and to return to their normal calls. All radio communication ceased, and the few officers talking were told to communicate with cellular phones. The night of April 16th, many unusual un-marked police cars were spotted around the Howard and Tipton county lines, as if they were guarding something."
"Suddenly after the official confirmed the info about the scene, they briefly kept calling it "an astronomical incident" and shortly after, all units were told they were dismissed from the search, and to return to their normal calls. All radio communication ceased, and the few officers talking were told to communicate with cellular phones. The night of April 16th, many unusual un-marked police cars were spotted around the Howard and Tipton county lines, as if they were guarding something."
First the military said, they had no aircraft in area... Then later... "An Indiana Air National Guard officer based in Fort Wayne said the “boom” and accompanying lights COULD have come from F-16 jet training exercises breaking the sound barrier and deploying flares — but added - that his unit’s logs did not show that any sonic booms were produced that night."
However, it has be claimed that: "In the training area going faster than the speed of sound (sonic boom) is prohibited, and dropping flares is also prohibited."
Weeks later, Aerodynamic studies were performed & Sound tests were conducted in the area..., which were presented on a TV Program... scientists & witnesses claim... That even if an F-16 was flying just above the rooftops in the area and broke the sound barrier... It could NOT have generated a boom loud enough, to equal that, of what the witnesses claimed to have experienced that night.
Could it still have been an F-16?
Major Brian Martin, a spokesman North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said none of the thousands of manmade objects — spent rocket vehicles, satellites — that government tracks re-entered the atmosphere over the U.S. on Wednesday night.
So, if it wasn't an F-16, and if it wasn't a crashed man-made object... What created the explosion?
There is speculation it could have been a meteor because of the metallic smell detected over Kokomo following the explosion.
Was it a meteor?
or was it...something else?
Some UFOlogists have disputed that F-16s were the source of the phenomena, claiming on one website, for example, that monitoring revealed “at least three (3) anomalous radar-only tracks which exhibited ‘unusual flight characteristics.’”
Sources:
www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/080416g.shtml
advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/04/mystery-explosion-in-kokomo.html
The 10 Weirdest UFO Cases in Indiana History
www.indianapolismonthly.com/features/the-10-weirdest-ufo-cases-in-indiana-history/
www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/080416g.shtml
advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/04/mystery-explosion-in-kokomo.html
The 10 Weirdest UFO Cases in Indiana History
www.indianapolismonthly.com/features/the-10-weirdest-ufo-cases-in-indiana-history/
FYI: I worked as a Dispatcher for an Emergency Response Agency in the Indianapolis area, at the time, and I was on duty that night. I can confirm the reports of the "boom", and the concerns about a "plane" crash... and I too, was told was that there were no known aircraft (including military) in the area at the time.
I have wondered about this event, since that night... And I have yet to learn of any satisfactory explanation, to explain everything...
I do NOT believe it was an F-16...
Meteor? Perhaps... But, that doesn't seem to be what people reported seeing in the sky that night... (And you would not see a meteor in the sky, after impact)