‘The Hum’ Heard In Costa Rica

Source: Dateline Zero

January 9, 2012, Costa Ricans awoke to a strange loud sound that emanated from the sky.

The frightened residents called the authorities to report the strange-sounding hum. The explanation they received, left many of them suspicious. No way was the thunderous sound anywhere near what fireworks sound like. The authorities though, remained steadfast in pushing their fireworks explanation to the nervous callers.

According to a local newspaper, it was described as a “a strange audible booming or humming sound.”

“Local news channels are leaning in the direction of fireworks but many remain skeptical,” according to the article.

The article goes on to read:

Now, it’s important to note that the reports of the strange sound in the Costa Rica skies Monday…came from as far as Perez Zeledon – what is the likelihood of anyone in Perez Zeledon, some 170kms from Zapote over the tallest mountain range in the country, hearing fireworks from Zapote? Not likely.

According to OVSICORI, the Costa Rica Volcanologist and Seismologist Organization, there was no tectonic activity at the time.

From another article about this mystery, at The Tico Times:

Volcanologists discounted a volcanic eruption; nor was it a supersonic aircraft, because the powerful radar at Juan Santamaría International Airport outside of San José picked up no planes at the time, not even subsonic ones.

Also, there were no climatological phenomena or strange weather conditions. By nightfall Monday, the speculation was still going along briskly with the major vote going to fireworks at the festival at Zapote, in San José. But many said it sounded like no fireworks they had ever heard. Mario Sánchez, spokesman for the National Meteorological Institute, discounted a storm because the only thing that would sound like the noise described would be a storm accompanied by lightning – and early Monday morning was clear with a full moon.

Among the most notable cases of “the hum” was the unexplained case in the English village of Woodland, in the UK. For two months that hum had been waking Woodland residents at night. The sound was always from midnight to 4am, and seemed to originate … from the sky.

If the people of Costa Rica aren’t still hearing this hum, they should thank their lucky stars. Or UFOs. Or whatever.

Full post at Dateline Zero