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Another night of mysterious booms in Clintonville

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 6:04 a.m.
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CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Sleep is interrupted again for some residents in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville where a series of mysterious booms continued Monday night.

Police say they received nearly 100 phone calls throughout the night about the loud booms. Dispatcher Karen Wegenke says most residents called about 12:15 a.m., 1:20 a.m., 2:20 a.m. and a few calls about 5:08 a.m. Tuesday.

Authorities in Clintonville, about 40 miles west of Green Bay, are at a loss to explain the noise, which some have described as a jackhammer sound. Dozens of calls also came in to dispatchers early Monday.

Local officials have checked gas lines, sewers, water pressure and consulted seismologists, but have come up empty-handed.




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WisconsinResident
Mar 21, 2012 at 6:47 a.m.
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The reason I am thinking that is military aircraft like the F-16s that the 115th fighter wing is currently flying. The F-16s can fly at supersonic speeds when there at supersonic speeds they create a sonic boom like the ones being experienced in Clintonville. The 115th is based in Madison WI and the Air Force uses Volk Field in Northern Wisconsin as a training facility for planes like the F-16. However I will point out this is only a theory and maybe Wisconsin should ask the Air Force if their testing some kind of military aircraft in the area because this is happening about the same time every day and that is why I am wondering if this could be something airborne again it’s one possibility.

Sigma40
Mar 21, 2012 at 6:33 a.m.
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WisconsinResident - Come on now, this is the internet, You are not supposed to bring logic to any conversation on here.

WisconsinResident
Mar 21, 2012 at 4:12 a.m.
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You know Volk field is in Northern Wisconsin is everyone sure that the Air Force is not testing aircraft from that part of our state? Are we sure this is not something airborne? Because my thinking is if it is not ground related you have to conclude it might be airborne?

njohnson
Mar 21, 2012 at 12:15 a.m.
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Boom! Boom! let's go back to my room...

garyprimer
Mar 20, 2012 at 11:45 p.m.
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Boom, Boom!
Out go the lights!

Hkwnd
Mar 20, 2012 at 10:43 p.m.
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Eather it's the Bay-Area Tap-A-Keg-A-Day Union,or it is the Media Phi-Zappa-Crappa Union.

Hkwnd
Mar 20, 2012 at 10:30 p.m.
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The Ice age made huge underground water chambers under many layers of rock.The ice is still expanding and retracting because of the combinations of warm and cold water mixing.Maybe its the ice expanding and retracting under the ground as the warmer weather mixes warmer water with the underground colder water which never really becomes completly melted anyway.It happens every spring.
But then it could be just some Bay-Area people with spring feaver jack hamering on a keg of beer.

BostonBill
Mar 20, 2012 at 8:36 p.m.
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I purchased a Disruptor on Klingon.com and lost it. Sounds like someone in Clintonville may have found it.

woodchuck
Mar 20, 2012 at 5:29 p.m.
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Maybe there is an underground connection between Clintonville and Mexico City, and what they felt predicted the big one down there.

Shopierehuh
Mar 20, 2012 at 4:17 p.m.
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ohhohoho! Gosh you are so intelligent.

weezer
Mar 20, 2012 at 2:54 p.m.
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im sure its "walkers fault"

cynicaleye
Mar 20, 2012 at 2:37 p.m.
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spark: I've ALWAYS taken care of myself thank you.

tloudon7992
Mar 20, 2012 at 2:06 p.m.
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I'M NOT SAYING IT'S ALIENS, BUT IT'S ALIENS

bassman
Mar 20, 2012 at 1:43 p.m.
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My wife said she heard similar sounds last night while on the couch,funny I was just sleeping like a baby in bed,she also say's I snore so bad it sounds like a Harley, but I don't believe her.

kcole
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:47 p.m.
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sounding pretty squatchy there....

sheila1215
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:33 p.m.
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Firecrackers? Happens at night because that's when the drunk people play...

Sigma40
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:28 p.m.
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Sharpshooters, sonic booms, and works bombs dont sound like jack hammers.. anyone else actually read the article?

prounion
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:26 p.m.
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It could be the return of Jesus?

Sigma40
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:19 p.m.
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So it only happens at night? And are more residents calling it in now bacause of the hype?
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These maps are updated within 1-5 min of an earthquake. http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recente...
Probably a train or something.
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I'd question cryoseism because it has gone from freezing to hot here before, just not this early that often. Hasnt anyone recorded it? 100 calls and no evidense?

Uncle_Jesse
Mar 20, 2012 at 12:14 p.m.
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well if it only happens at night it is probably not the the earth making the sound.......my bet is kids with works toilet cleaner bombs or something similar .

spark
Mar 20, 2012 at 11:41 a.m.
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It's the sound of cynicaleye and carlitosway falling off their couches after realizing it's not the Governments job to take care of them. Touche.

starbuck
Mar 20, 2012 at 11:35 a.m.
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It's the Apes! Planet of the Apes! LOL.

garyprimer
Mar 20, 2012 at 11:13 a.m.
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FRACKERS!

jbsback453350
Mar 20, 2012 at 10:49 a.m.
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While my stereo will shake your house from a hundred feet away. I don't think that is it. It may be....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoseism

hdonlybob
Mar 20, 2012 at 10:11 a.m.
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jocose
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:42 a.m.
Probably some idiot playing their boom box too loud.
NOW THAT IS FUNNY !!! LMAO

fearandrhetoric4dummies
Mar 20, 2012 at 9:38 a.m.
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Google HAARP

mentor397
Mar 20, 2012 at 9:32 a.m.
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It's the anti-Walker protesters, trying to think. Needless to say, it hasn't been entirely successful.

carlitosway
Mar 20, 2012 at 9:17 a.m.
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cynicaleye Good one

WisconsinResident
Mar 20, 2012 at 8:26 a.m.
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I am wondering if the Air force might be testing a new aircraft and that could be causing the sonic booms.

dieselpower
Mar 20, 2012 at 8:26 a.m.
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Are DNR sharpshooters in your area reducing the deer population like they do in Illinois?

garyprimer
Mar 20, 2012 at 8:23 a.m.
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Jackhammers don't go boom.
If they do, you are in big trouble.

cynicaleye
Mar 20, 2012 at 7:22 a.m.
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I think it's the sound of Scott Walker's days as governor ending.

fool_on_the_hill
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:47 a.m.
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If this phenomenon reoccurs, three strategically placed seismic/acoustic data loggers with GPS should be able to triangulate a location for the source. Sounds like a fun little field trip for someone with access to such equipment. Who ya gonna call?

jocose
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:42 a.m.
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Probably some idiot playing their boom box too loud.

yada
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:37 a.m.
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earthquake or possible sink hole might develop next.

eatlessmovemore
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:19 a.m.
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Are the Posse Comitatus building bunkers during the night?

bassman
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:10 a.m.
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I wonder if there is something secretly going on at the local airport on the edge of town ? Who knows I'm sure we will find out soon enough.

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