It sounded quite like this, yes. Except it had kindof a windblown sound or whistle to it. At first I thought it was just the wind blowing outside. But it got really friggin' loud, it passed directly over our house (more like an object, rather than the wind) and it had a very distinct mechanical sound to it. Also, there are several trees in our yard and around us, and when the wind blows, you can heard the wind through the trees. There was no wind blowing and the trees were still. It was so loud and freaky sounding that I ran outside as fast as I could... but didn't see anything. And, no, Fatty, it couldn't have been from you - nobody was injured. -- droxford
Ottomation - It happens that night that you saw the Russian thing, I was riding with some buddies down to Galveston and we saw it too. I had forgotten about that. Every now and then something reminds me of it. Being a musician, I drive home late at night a lot and very often on dark country roads. In the past 10 years, I've seen some very dramatic "shooting stars" where I can even see a trail afterwards once they disappear. The best one I saw was about 6 years ago near Magnolia. It was very bright and blue. It looked like it landed in a field just beyond the trees. That was the biggest one that I've ever seen and I was ready to see a big fire break out, but there was nothing. Does anyone know how far away this big shooting stars really are. From what I understand, usually nothing hits the ground that we are just seeing the space rock disintegrate in the atmosphere. But, some of these that I've seen definitely appear very close and I can't see how they could disappear before hitting. When I say very close, I mean within a mile, not miles up in the atmosphere. Is this some kind of illusion? I've always wondered.
I tell people about seeing the smoke after they disappear and they don't usually believe me. Ive seen some big ones too where I see them break apart. It's great. I have also seen them where they seemed to be little pins of light whizzing by my head where I could reach out and catch them. Nobody believes that one.
I've seen them break apart too. It's always a little freaky and I'm normally by myself so no one else sees them, but it's always cool to see. It makes me think about what it had to be like for ancient humans to see something like that. It's easy to see how they came up with their stories about the gods and things that the gods do.
Look at the video at the bottom of the article. It was probably one of them, or those, or they, whoever they are. http://tmgnow.com/repository/planetary/brink.html
I finally figured it out. It was the sound of your property value going through the roof as the gentrification of Timbergrove continues.
I feel your pain. I live on W. 17th (in the heights) and work on W. 23rd (in timbergrove). I fight my taxes every year.
I don't suppose you heard a giant friggin' UFO fly over your house a few nights ago, did you? -- droxford
Sorry. 2.5 margaritas from Tony's put me down for the count around 10pm. Aliens could have abducted me and I don't think I would have known.
I work on 18th and live on 43rd (Oak Forrest). I don't think it was that night, but one night that was exceptionally foggy recently I noticed alot more air traffic over our house and just thought that maybe the fog was the reason. We've had a couple old military planes (WWII era) fly over as well.
