Apples fall from sky in UK
Rush hour drivers in one English city (Keresley, Coventry) were surprised to see apples falling from the sky. Scientists say they probably came from a nearby orchard but did explain how they fell from the sky.
15 December 2011
http://specials.msn.com/a-list/news/apples-fall-from-sky-psp
Blast but 'no bomb' in Pakistani cities
Explosion heard in two cities likely was caused by a sonic boom
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A loud blast alarmed residents and security officials in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and nearby city of Rawalpindi on Monday but police later said it appeared it had been a sonic boom.
Residents of both cities heard a big blast just before 11 a.m. (1 a.m. ET).
About 45 minutes after the blast was heard, a senior police official stated, "We have checked everywhere in Rawalpindi, all the main areas and hospitals, but there is nothing. It could have been a sonic boom but we are still investigating."
No air force aircraft had been over the city at the time of the blast, said a Pakistani air force spokesmen.
A military official said there had been no bomb at any of the main military installations in Rawalpindi.
Camera lens mysteriously falls from sky, damages roof
Camera lens crashes through roof of 55-year-old Debbie Payne. Her neighbor heard a loud noise near the Payne's home a few weeks ago. When he stepped out to help Payne investigate the source of the ruckus, the two discovered that the roof of her two-story home had a hole and that two window screens were sliced open.
Sitting in the neighbor's driveway was a two-pound nine-inch Canon camera lens - and no one knows how or why it fell from the sky only that it was the cause of the damage.
Petaluma police are attempting to track down the owner by tracing its serial number and questioning whether it was possible that someone dropped the lens out of a plane.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said he had never heard of a camera lens falling from an aircraft, adding that "simply proving it came from a plane would be difficult to do."
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...lens-mysteriously-falls-from-sky-damages-roof
Clipboard Falls From sky
Gus Binos was washing a van outside his Long Island home on Thursday at about 3:30 p.m. when he heard a startling noise and saw shocked when a metal clipboard landed 20 feet from where he was standing.
"I just jumped and turned," Binos said.
"Wow, what if I got hit with it?" Binos said. "It is a very sharp piece of metal. I mean, with the velocity that it was coming down, it would have stuck a hole in my head."
Jammed inside the clip was a thin stack of aviation documents, including flight patterns and navigation guidelines for flying through New York City's Hudson River corridor and around the Statue of Liberty. The clipboard also held a runway map of nearby MacArthur Airport in Islip.
It's possible, pilot Adam Rosenberg said, that a pilot accidentally left the clipboard resting on the exterior of the aircraft before takeoff.
"Sometimes in the process of preparing to 'pre-flight' an airplane, or after you get out of an aircraft, you will put something on the wing. However, the odds of it making it off the airport property once the airplane begins taking off are very slim," Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg said it is highly unusual -- but not unheard of -- for a pilot to accidentally lose an item like a clipboard while in mid-air. A cockpit door could accidentally come open and some planes have exposed cockpits.
FAA investigators want to speak with Binos and examine the clipboard to trace its origin.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/n...and-Aviation-Documents-Mystery-213433311.html
Mysterious Rumble Felt in Jersey
The ground in south New Jersey shook Saturday morning according to many witnesses, but no earthquakes or military training exercises were reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey suggested a possible sonic boom although the military was not training on any aircraft at the time.
"I'm in LEH [Little Egg Harbor] and my basement door shook violently for 15 sec or so long enough to creep me out. Sounded like someone was trying to get out," Dana Re posted on her Facebook page.
John Tefankjian left a comment stating that he felt his house in Brigantine shake, but differently from when fighter jets go by in training.
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst spokesman Pascual Flores stated, "There currently is no training of any type that would have resulted in today's incident."
Residents in Atlantic, Cape May, Ocean, Salem and Camden County also experienced the shaking.
Comments left on the independent Earthquake-Report.com:
"Felt like a rumble, everyone ran outside, we all noticed on our street." (Ocean City)
"Whole house started shaking, outside sounded like a bomb with slight shaking." (Little Egg Harbor)
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/20/14580549-mystery-ground-shaking-rattles-south-jersey?lite