The universe seems determined to maintain radio silence, so SETI astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence are broadening their hunt and looking for light signals directed at Earth. This method has been tried before but previous experiments have been plagued by false alarms.
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A mysterious humming sound, similar to the one reported in Taos, New Mexico 9 years ago, has recently turned up in Kokomo, Indiana, where dozens of people say it?s making them ill. Like the Taos hum, the Kokomo one has affected a group of people who say they are bothered by the unexplained low-frequency vibrations.
In June, the Kokomo Tribune ran a five-part series plus an editorial based on interviews with about 40 locals who say they began hearing or feeling ?a low-pitched droning? about two years ago. Steve Kozarovich, a Tribune assistant editor whose wife wrote the series, says that since publication, others have called to say they too hear a low-pitched sound.
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NASA’s Spaceweather.com website has announced that the Northeast Fireball of July 23, 2001 was not part of a meteor shower, but may have been a small asteroid like the Yukon Fireball of 2000 or the Peekskill Meteor of 1992.
Neither of these objects produced the kind of massive sonic boom that struck the Northeast yesterday evening, and how an object small enough to go undetected could have generated such a large shockwave remains unexplained.
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Spain?s North African enclave of Melilla, on a small peninsula on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, was hit by freak heatwaves on Monday, sending temperatures shooting up as much by as 30 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of minutes.
Spain?s Meteorological Institute said it registered two heat surges during the morning, the first sending thermometers soaring from 75 F to 105 F before the temperature went down again within 15 minutes. An hour later, the second burst of heat pushed temperatures up by 59 F before again cooling down a few minutes later.
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