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Sounds coming from the sky recently

  • 23-06-2019 11:42pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭


    I was on YouTube and seen reports of weird trumpet like noises coming from the sky,it happened a few years ago.

    Supposedly it's been heard from the Burren up as far as Connemara last week.

    Is it a weather phenomenon ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,222 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    lol heard regularly in west Clare and Galway from time to time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Must be the saints gone marching in


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Muslim call to prayer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    There's a fella who plays the trumpet on Arklow beach the odd time. Could be him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    The sky gods are angry at so many people saying seen when they should say saw.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,704 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    End of times or you know maybe man made (but that just sounds crazy)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    fritzelly wrote: »
    End of times or you know maybe man made (but that just sounds crazy)


    You're ruling out women?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭highdef


    You're ruling out women?

    Assuming you are just trolling but man made is not gender specific. It's just a term:

    Made by humans rather than occurring in nature.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,506 ✭✭✭✭Victor




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    highdef wrote: »
    Assuming you are just trolling but man made is not gender specific. It's just a term:

    Made by humans rather than occurring in nature.

    "trolling" lol
    It's a joke, you imbecile.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    "trolling" lol
    It's a joke, you imbecile.

    No jokes allowed anymore.
    Jokes about gender will be punishable by death.

    The world 2019


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,704 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    You're ruling out women?

    If it was woman made you would never hear the end of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭highdef


    "trolling" lol
    It's a joke, you imbecile.

    In fairness, there are quite a few people who genuinely get worked up about the use of the word "man" so what I said was reasonable unlike yourself who needs to resort to personal insults which I believe are not tolerated here.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This thread is brought to you after hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    When I was out walking before 5 am today there was a dreadful cafuffle coming from the opposite shore.. definitely terrified geese but also an.... unknown sound that was quite fearsome..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards




  • Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    lol heard regularly in west Clare and Galway from time to time

    The Burren is in North Clare...

    I'm not trolling just wondering if it's a load of hogwash or doe's anyone here have any input


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,599 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I used to always hear a hum around my house. Turned out it was just tinnitus!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,826 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Remember this from Kerry back in 2012? (and no Healy-Rae jokes, please )

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan...ng-185609.html


    (edit: I posted this earlier in another thread by mistake)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    Its actually the solar particles interacting with the magnetosphere and produces these groaning sounds (this is off the top of my head and open to corections could be the ionisphere either), there was a spate of this up in louth a few years ago


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    highdef wrote: »
    In fairness, there are quite a few people who genuinely get worked up about the use of the word "man"

    If people get worked up over something as harmless as this, then we should go out of our way to work them up some more. They really must have nothing else going on in their lives.

    New Moon



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Myself and my mother were walking the beach in Bettystown Co Meath last week and heard about 10 seconds of a bizarre trumpet / metal being dragged on metal sound coming from the sky, hairs stood on my arms it was that bizarre.

    Today, a number of people in Drogheda, Slane & Dundalk reported hearing similar. These are all within 30km of each other. Someone managed to record it and this is the exact same sound we heard last week.



    I note a lot of people on similar videos say they are hoaxes and I'd believe that myself had we not heard them in person.

    Baffled.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Myself and my mother were walking the beach in Bettystown Co Meath last week and heard about 10 seconds of a bizarre trumpet / metal being dragged on metal sound coming from the sky, hairs stood on my arms it was that bizarre.

    Today, a number of people in Drogheda, Slane & Dundalk reported hearing similar. These are all within 30km of each other. Someone managed to record it and this is the exact same sound we heard last week.



    I note a lot of people on similar videos say they are hoaxes and I'd believe that myself had we not heard them in person.

    Baffled.

    It may not be coming from the sky? It’s very strange indeed. It would make my hairs stand too if I heard it especially if you heard it at night time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    pad199207 wrote: »
    It may not be coming from the sky? It’s very strange indeed. It would make my hairs stand too if I heard it especially if you heard it at night time.

    Possibly not the sky alright just made me look up and west (away from the Sea). A really horrible / uncomfortable sound.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭highdef


    Could it be something going at Irish Cement between Drogheda and Duleek?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    I see it is not far from Drogheda Port, sometimes when drawing back the covers of the holds they can be quite loud echoing through the ship? Might also be the crane scraping off the bottom of the hold. By the way some bird song in the video above.

    Link from google of Drogheda Port company , Tom Roes Point Terminal, click on pic to enlarge.

    https://g.page/DroghedaPort?share


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Very weird! Only listening through crappy lap top speaker, but each of the 'notes' in those sounds are in tune with one another. It almost sounds like a male choir practicing specific parts of a tune or something.

    New Moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,752 ✭✭✭degsie


    End of Days!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,855 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    I used to hear this sound emanating from key waste on the Greenhills road.
    I’m pretty sure it’s metal pushing along metal with the use of a crane. The sound then reverberates around the yard etc and Eminates our around the area.
    Sounds like war of the worlds on that video though.
    Very good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,437 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Some of the comments in this video are suggesting boring machines going through hard rock. So could be the cement plant suggestion

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQS2L_WWp2k

    Is there one near the burren that could account for the noises there too ? Maybe a quarry ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Oops!


    I live about 3 mile as the crow flies from a mine that closed about 5 years ago. You could often hear strange noises on a calm day or night similar to that when it was in production.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 Acquired


    It's possibly a sign from the heavens - known as the 'Rapture.' Look it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Whatever it is, my son reckons it won't be cleaned with a 40 degree wash


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭highdef


    Acquired wrote: »
    It's possibly a sign from the heavens - known as the 'Rapture.' Look it up.

    Any chance you could give a brief explanation of this theory and why you think it's a possibility?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    I can believe the ship noise scenario, but nearest port was about 4k from me and the sound was also heard inland near Slane, then in Dundalk too (30km?) North.

    To me it did sound like it could be coming from Irish Cement direction funny enough but that's a good 10k away.

    I was on the beach and the wind was offshore for once, so westerly winds could be carrying it some distance.

    It's the exact same sound that was heard in Drogheda in 2016 (Vids on YouTube) but reports of it also being heard in France, Turkey and Brazil in the last week alone.

    I am clueless.

    Wonder if there's any association with general noise pollution being quite low at present.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,079 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    We are all doomed! The four horsemen are coming! I knew choosing the chicken over the mushroom soup would have consequences. Peter Griffin was right:(

    It sounds like a crane moving against something to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    We are all doomed! The four horsemen are coming! I knew choosing the chicken over the mushroom soup would have consequences. Peter Griffin was right:(

    It sounds like a crane moving against something to me.

    Sounds like metal on metal / an out of tune Trumpet, but there was no such machinery within km's of me, there are also youtube videos of it in Dundalk that were recorded at the same time.

    Guess I'll just try block it out of my memory as being a hoax / my imagination.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    I see it is not far from Drogheda Port, sometimes when drawing back the covers of the holds they can be quite loud echoing through the ship? Might also be the crane scraping off the bottom of the hold. By the way some bird song in the video above.

    Sounds a lot like a boat scraping against a pier, I used to live a few miles from a port and would frequently hear similar sounds as car ferries were coming in to dock.

    Cement factory seems like the most logical source around there but then it could be caused by some combination of corona and 5G for all we know :eek:


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