Sky Trumpets: 5 Frightening Unexplained Sounds from the Sky

Presenting the latest unexplained sky sound phenomena... On the evening of October 11, 2023, residents of New Hampshire, in the New England region of the United States, were alarmed by a deafening, booming explosive sound that rattled their windows and shook entire homes for a full 12 seconds. No initial cause could be identified.

Harvard University's astronomical equipment managed to record the sound, but analyses determined that the source of the sound could not have been birds, aircraft, or wind.

Speculation ran rampant on social media, fueled by firsthand accounts of the unsettling event. Residents theorized that the cause might be a sonic boom from an aircraft or, more fancifully, aliens testing technology in our atmosphere.

Avi Loeb, a former Harvard astronomer and physicist who has since turned his attention to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, initiated a further investigation. Loeb had founded the Galileo Project at Harvard, installing an ultra-sensitive microphone on the roof of a campus building.

The Galileo Project is an international initiative dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and technology, focusing on UFO and aerial phenomena. It employs optical and auditory equipment to systematically scan the skies.

As the community pondered the phenomenon, Loeb concluded that the source must have been an unidentified flying object, detonating with the force of 2,400 pounds of TNT. One of Loeb’s posts on the matter queried, "Is this an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon? [...] Are aliens using advanced technologies near Earth?"

The same roaring noise was detected in Massachusetts, where it was discovered to have been moving at 1,115 feet per second, based on the burst of pressure that swept across the Earth's surface in the wake of the boom.

Combining the evidence, Loeb deduced that the UFO was likely a meteor, noting, "The inferred energy and distance are reminiscent of meteors, which are known to make their own music at high altitudes."

Supporting Loeb’s meteor hypothesis, this phenomenon occurred during the Orionid Meteor Shower, an annual event each autumn that can produce up to 25 shooting stars per hour at its peak. The meteor is likely to have been a fragment from this shower.

Although the investigation concluded that alien technology was not involved, the size of the meteor—and the force of its explosion—remains a significant cause for concern, especially given that it was not detected approaching Earth.

Loeb remains a controversial figure within the scientific community. In 2023, he also claimed to have recovered material from an interstellar meteor containing evidence of alien technology. The potential for retrieving material from the meteor that alarmed New England remains uncertain.

It may be that other similar phenomena will support theories of alien intelligence, such as the mysterious flash and boom witnessed in Minnesota in the same month as the New England event. Despite being captured on camera, the plummeting object behind the Minnesota boom remains unexplained...

[Soloong_Gaybowzer]

You should cover the "Sky Explosion" in Gatesville Texas just outside of Fort Hood. The explosion was at least 170dB on a clear sunny day and caused some older windows in the area to shatter. Fort Hood and the Air Force claimed it wasn't them, and a federal investigation turned up that the explosion in the sky was "of indeterminable cause". I was personally outside working on my rental home at the time and it was so loud I thought Fort Hood had been nuked.

[Jshaun]

I like how he completely talks over all the sounds we're supposed to be listening for.

[seandelap]

The sound of Dark5 is surely among the most iconic on YT

[ButchersBoys]

I love the voice of these videos. makes them eerie

[kimnice]

In the 2002 during this summer night there was this weird sound in southern Finland: Multiple people in this chat reported that there was this humming sound..like distant diesel truck idling, but this sound came from the sky; all around. People over 200km / 125 mi / 2200 football fiels away heard it. Obviously I went out and heard it. I took my car and drove around my small city and people outside bars were looking up. Didn't see anything. Also there was more than usual amount of wild life activity.

Few days later there was small article in a news paper that during that night a solar storm hit the Earth..and if it had been winter (and actually dark) we would have seen really strong northern lights.

[ingridfong-daley]

A "Florida Rumble" sounds like a fight between an alligator and a bulldog that you place bets on.

[ingridfong-daley]

@10:30 "What are the creepiest sounds you've ever heard?"

I can't speak for others, but Yoko Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko; Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand in the Snow" is the most terrifying auditory encounter of my life.

[Robert-kvf]

Once when i was a teenager i was at a park. It being the middle of summer, the park was full of people. Joggers, dog walkers, picnic goers, and what have you.
Suddenly there was an impossibly loud sound up in sky. It was an like a gigantic lawnmower had been started behind the clouds. I want to emphasize that there was no build up to it. It wasn't like an aircraft flew into the area then it happened. No. This erupted into existence out of nowhere.
I looked up at where i thought the sound originated. The sound zoomed away quickly, faster than any plane could've passibly moved. You could hear it gain distance, the way a car sounds as it speeds past you.
When i looked down i saw that every single person in the park was looking up at the exact same spot. Then we all just kinda went back to what we were doing. Cause realistically what could we do? Call the cops and report a loud noise? It made me wonder how often phenomenon like this goes unreported

[hunerkiller]

Hope the intro never goes away its perfect for this channel
Glad you switched to narrating makes the videos better

[stereorebel]

Literally my favorite channel on YouTube and the only one that never disappoints. Thank you for all your hard work ✨ also ty for bringing back that iconic intro !!

[edwardfortesque]

There is an old Unsolved Mysteries episode that focuses on the humming noise phenomena if anyone is interested.

[jerryparsons]

That Florida Rumble is that neighbor kids with a 1996 Civic and a new CD player.

[ericthiel]

Its not far fetched that with the sheer amount of signals we as humans are sending out on a regular basis through cell towers, radio towers and all sorts of communications equipment that some of the "hums" are the combined waves of all this bouncing of of various obstacles. The amount of noise we humans make with communications, electronics and machines is massive!!

[davidponseigo]

Over a two day period in North Louisiana about 10 years ago we had three loud Booms that rocked windows and at first we thought sonic boom as we have a major Air Force base here but the base denied it and my father was a retired Colonel and still knew people at the base and they actually confirmed it wasn't a plane and they honestly had no clue but my father seemed to have a idea but wouldn't tell us. He had been part of the Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Special Weapons Project so he probably did but it never happened again.

[damiencouturee]

Neat, refreshed my subscription page at the right time lol

[zeusandathena]

Always look forward to ALL your channels. Thank you from us viewers and subscribers

[AzelPraer]

There's something deeply troubling about a species that hears 'mysterious' sounds and still thinks some pop starlets romantic life is news worthy.

[garymcewan]

Thanks, as always for your great content Dark

[ladyflibblesworth]

we used to share the Bristol hum before & during storms here in Skewen, we share a fault line with Bristol. it stopped after the earthquake, the earthquake was felt in Bristol too. There must be a connection. They were making fun of us for overreacting to the earthquake within 13 minutes, they claimed it was normal, but the noise was insane. My street was the epicenter and the street was flooded with people, animals ran away for days, my mother thinks there was a gas explosion as I answer the phone with a screaming baby and I'm shouting out the window to neighbors and explaining to my mother that it was an earthquake, that I have seismographs and earthquake reports....we have never felt an earthquake here before!

[bansidheaz]

I've been experiencing the "Tucson (Arizona, USA) booms" for over 25 years now, and they've been growing more frequent over the years. These are loud rumblings similar to a sonic boom that rattle windows and startle birds and other animals into silence. They occur most often in the spring and fall and most commonly from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. There is an Air Force base in Tucson, but they've denied having anything to do with these sounds. I suspect they have something to do with large, rapid changes in temperature but don't have any evidence to back that up.