(Central Florida) Just heard and felt 2 huge booms that shook my house. Came outside and I hear another. I'm freaking out.
114 2017-02-06 by Synonymous_joe
I hear sirens, helicopters, and military jets. My heart is pounding out of my chest. Is this the end? I've lived in Florida my entire life and I've heard the trumpets from the heavens several years ago and other loud sounds but never thunderous boom that shook the house.
Edit for the curious; Marion/ Lake county. The police scanners seem pretty quiet.
Edit; Thank you Breezeby3 . I am pretty sure this Pinecaste bombing range is the cause. I live less than 15 miles from it . https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.com/why-20-000-bombs-a-year-are-dropped-in-this-national-fo-1593856388/amp
Edit; I just moved here a week ago. I have severe PTSD for anyone who thinks it's cool to joke about this. And thanks to the proper people helping me figure out why that happened this morning, I stopped freaking out after the booms stopped.
62 comments
n/a fuufnfr 2017-02-06
What town you in? Somebody check police scanner.
n/a rainbowdragon22 2017-02-06
Any news reporting it locally yet? Could be a power plant transforming blowing
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yeah 4 huge booms total. Nothing after that
n/a spongebobzombiepants 2017-02-06
The most interesting thing on Google news are 2 separate manhunts for killers. 1 in Jupiter, the other in...Milton?
n/a Floof_Poof 2017-02-06
name your area?
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Marion/ lake county
n/a accountingisboring 2017-02-06
My fam is in Lake county. I have them checking into it. i will update with anything I hear.
n/a ClayTaylor 2017-02-06
Lake Mount!
n/a AbortionBurger 2017-02-06
I'm in CFL and nothing here. I'm West Orlando, where are you?
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Marion / lake county
n/a AbortionBurger 2017-02-06
Weird. Could be something space coast related?
n/a isudone 2017-02-06
CFL is over 100mi across. Be more specific.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Marion/ lake county
n/a accountingisboring 2017-02-06
What part? I have family down there.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Marion county area
n/a spork22 2017-02-06
Trump is visiting MacDill AFB in Tampa today but that is on the central coast.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yes, I'm 1.5 hours from tampa
n/a SweetBabyXenu 2017-02-06
Meteor or planes hitting sound barrier?
n/a Phancybella 2017-02-06
Try downloading the Nextdoor app. Maybe your neighbors might know what's going on.
n/a I_luv_cp_hmm 2017-02-06
Everything is going to be ok please try and relax
n/a Balthanos 2017-02-06
Dude, wtf is up with that user name?
n/a sidebycide 2017-02-06
Seriously...
n/a I_luv_cp_hmm 2017-02-06
I really love cheese pizza.
n/a Balthanos 2017-02-06
I wouldn't even joke about that subject.. even on the internet. People are liable to find you interesting enough to do a bit of digging.
n/a I_luv_cp_hmm 2017-02-06
I'm talking about actual pizza dude. I frequently comment on the pizza sub.
n/a boenaero 2017-02-06
I'm near Tampa and I had a similar experience last night around 3am. Kind of hard to pinpoint because I was in bed but I definitely remember being roused by a massive boom last night.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Thats funny because my wife's family lives in villages area and heard something last night too
n/a ILikeMyBlueEyes 2017-02-06
I live about 20 minutes from The Villages. I didn't hear anything last night.
n/a HauntedBacon 2017-02-06
I'm near Tampa too and didn't hear the boom last night but I've been hearing rumbling noises at night for a few years. I'm a native to the area and don't remember hearing those noises when I was younger so I have no idea what the source is.
n/a Breezeby3 2017-02-06
There are the bombing/proving grounds in Ocala that can be heard all across Central Florida.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Damn I live right on the outskirts of Ocala National Forest. I'm also new to that area.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
And so the plot thickens.. Hmm thank you very much, I think you answered my question https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.com/why-20-000-bombs-a-year-are-dropped-in-this-national-fo-1593856388/amp
n/a verbose_gent 2017-02-06
Isn't Trump down there? Maybe they're showing him a live demonstration? Could also explain the choppers.
n/a Fan4t1k 2017-02-06
Can confirm. Lived in Ocala for 10 years. Would go to juniper springs and sometimes hear the booms while swimming.
n/a JwPATX 2017-02-06
I don't think it's the end, but I'm curious, did the trumpets from heaven sound like any of the examples in the video in this article?
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yeah that was it. Pretty sure I heard ot around 2008 and it went on for weeks
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yeah thats it, lasted a couple of weeks on and off. Sounded like a gigantic metallic structure moving and creaking. Back around 2008ish this happened.
n/a JwPATX 2017-02-06
I really want to hear this in person. In the videos it sounds like you can't even tell which direction it's coming from. I mean ppl pan the camera and there's no change in volume. When I first saw that compilation last year, I couldn't stop watching it.
There are also boom phenomena in a couple of places on the east coast. I don't know if I've heard of any in FL, but the Ithaca guns have been reported for like 200 years, and there's another similar thing in either NC or SC, I forget which.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Let me just say I will never forget that sound.. It was eerie as fuck and made me feel like this earth was not what we think it is.
n/a merica_love 2017-02-06
I am not religious anymore but a lot of the shit that's been going on has me wondering if Revelations actually holds some truth. Strange times.
n/a Red_Tricks 2017-02-06
I feel like ancient texts hold a lot of truth, and we have all been misinterpreting them.
Check out graham Hancock and John Andrew for more on stuff like that.
n/a JwPATX 2017-02-06
Same. Symbolic explanations for things that have unknown natural explanations, such as a magnetic pole shift and its precursors.
n/a Gmoney69er1 2017-02-06
Wow just checked out that article and that sound gave me the heebie jeebies.
n/a JwPATX 2017-02-06
Right? It sounds like a 300ft tall elk made of rusty metal. The one in BC could be a mining operation with the correct conditions for sound to travel really far/clearly, but that's usually when it's super-cold with little snow. I can't even imagine a good explanation for the others. I've seen comments that say it sounds like when you straighten out a blade for a grader, but even that wouldn't be as loud unless you were close, and it wouldn't be as sustained.
n/a 333gggbbb 2017-02-06
Gotta get some vid recording of this
n/a un0love 2017-02-06
i live in Florida
Lay off the meth
n/a bannedfromvideos2 2017-02-06
hahahahahahahahah oh fuck my sides. "IS THIS THEN END? I HEARD LARGE BOOMS AND IM LIKE SHAKING WITH FEAR!oh btw i live 15 miles away from a bombing range BUT LIKE IS THIS THE FUCKIN APOCALYPSE R WE ALL GONNA DYE?"
christ some of you people need legit mental help.
n/a Red_Tricks 2017-02-06
They commented that they're new to the area, should they still know about the range?
Yes probably, but they didn't, now they do. No need to toss insults around man.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yeah.. Being someone with severe PTSD, I recommend you go fuck yourself.
n/a dutchbob1 2017-02-06
no worries OP, here's the 411:
those zany AAFSAT-boys have reopened ALACHUA for maneuvers. (and YES, they're load a.f.)
n/a Oprahs_snatch 2017-02-06
Your first thought was "is this the end"?
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Well if you heard these booms you would have thought of bombs being dropped. And with the small amount of research, it was bombs.. So yeah i had a feeling of impending doom
n/a NotTheFriendliest 2017-02-06
lol
n/a cantmakeupcoolname 2017-02-06
You have severe PTSD and you go to live near a bombing range. I really don't want to come across like a douche, but didn't you do any research on the neighbourhood before you moved in?
n/a targetedindividual 2017-02-06
Agree, OP deserve downvotes because of shitposting before even googling about the possible cause.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Yeah my wife did google it , with nothing. I actually figured it out through this post so it was well worth posting on my end.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
No, but I don't think i would have learned this before moving in. Landlords like to show you the good parts and let you discover the bad ones the hard way. I still love this place, it's an upgrade from my last.
n/a thisissomebull4sure 2017-02-06
I'm lake county. Crazy is I live close to Renningers flea market. They do a civil war reenactment often and you hear cannons go off like crazy. I also live in what others would call the country part of FL (Lake County) and I have a neighbor who has a gun range on his property and we hear shots fired constantly but that's nothing.
One night we heard booms that sounded extreme so my husband a marine went outside to check out the noise and came back in with this look in his eyes I've never seen. He said you need to see this. I kept saying what? What? Your scaring me! I'm freaking cause all I hear is explosions. I get outside and look behind the house where he's pointing. It looked so scary. Like a bomb went off a few miles behind our house, fire and a bunch of small bombs going up and exploding with it. I've only see war in movies and wow was I in a motion picture? The neighbor also ex marine came out at the same time and the look in his eyes was just as scary. They both said let's get out of here. He said get the kids out of bed and grab anything I could we would need cause we need to go and quickly. Needless to say I'm pooping my pants (not literally but almost). As it was happening it wasn't on the news cause it was happening so fast. We get in the car with the kids and not without weapons and turn on the radio and finally find out what it really was. Still pretty scary. The Blue Rhino propane plant had a fire. It's not very far from our house and luckily they got it in check before the major boom which would've blasted for miles. Now I look back and my husband and I joke about it as we tell the story. I guess seeing what you do in the military changes you and your on red alert. He said it looked like only things he's seen in the military.
Sorry I know this doesn't answer your question on what it is OP but welcome to Lake County where everyone owns a gun and crazy shit happens.
n/a bigpopperwopper 2017-02-06
calm ur tits down
n/a vilyastrix 2017-02-06
Reports from 2 days ago of what felt like an earthquake in Orlando: https://www.reddit.com/r/orlando/comments/5s17s5/did_you_just_feel_that_earthquake/
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n/a AmadeusK482 2017-02-06
We got a sane one here!
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Go ahead and youtube it. I'm not crazy.
n/a JohnCarpenterLives 2017-02-06
Read replies, and edits. Sorry dude. Rough spot to live for someone with PTSD.
n/a BARchitecture 2017-02-06
Lololol what makes this a conspiracy?
n/a whatsreallygoingon 2017-02-06
Something strange happened, today.
There was a launch at Canaveral, this morning; but I am unable to find any information about what was sent up.
n/a rockthe40__oz 2017-02-06
Probably has to do with military testing
n/a ILikeMyBlueEyes 2017-02-06
I live in Lake County. Didn't hear or feel anything. However, this post just reminded me of the time I did hear and feel two loud booms this past July. I even went on Facebook and asked if anyone else heard and felt what sounded like two sonic booms. No one did. Maybe our experiences come from the same source, whatever source that may be.
n/a Synonymous_joe 2017-02-06
Marion/ lake county