Officers Vickie Warehime and J. Posluszny Jr. have solved a lot of mysteries, but this one is over their heads–literally. In fact, it may be about 30 to 40 feet in the air. For months, the Baltimore County Community Outreach officers have been investigating a bizarre phenomenon disturbing neighbors in an area of Pikesville near Beth Tfiloh Community School. Now, they say they may be closer to an answer. Derek Valcourt reports 911 callers complain about a deafening explosion and a bright flash of light in the middle of night.
“The bedroom actually lights up like day,” says Elaine O’Mansky, who lives in the Stevenson Commons condominium building near Beth Tfiloh. “It’s instantaneous and wakes us up out of a very deep sleep.” She isn’t alone. Barbara Friedman is Homeowner’s Association president for the area. She was up late one night sweeping her back patio when she heard the boom. “I hit the deck,” Friedman explained. “It was so loud, I thought I was being shot. I literally hit the deck.” After she realized she hadn’t been shot, she started emailing other homeowners to see if they heard it too.
From late September until now, she’s heard it 25 times, always between midnight and 7 a.m. with no consistent pattern. Convinced something was wrong, Friedman and O’Mansky contacted police, who were skeptical at first. So police started investigating whether it was an electrical or gas problem. Then police decided to take the next step and install two cameras hoping to videotape the boom. “It wasn’t until we caught it on tape that we realized the magnitude of what they were actually talking about,” said Sgt. Warehime. “The sound is almost deafening. You can’t describe it. Seeing it on tape without hearing the sound doesn’t do it justice.” Police say they’ve consulted with many experts and they’re running out of options. Armitage says more evidence is needed before he can form a scientific conclusion.
“Right now it’s hard to say the phenomenon is definitely occurring though,” said Armitage. “It’s not some people with creative imaginations that’s for sure. When there’s repeated eyewitnesses, and then there’s something on tape like this, you really have to pay attention.”
I have seen power transformers explode, and it looks much like this, but thats been ruled out. There has to be some reasonable explanation for this….so what is it? Maybe some kids with powerful explosives?
It’s probably sewer gas igniting.
M80’s rule.
Repent you sinners.
Sewer Gas ?
She said Hoe Moaners
You are all wrong. Skynet is sending back Terminators.
Stay tuned, just read on the wbal.com web site police have made an arrest and will probably give additional details later this afternoon.
I think it’s electrical, likely a transformer with a bad ground. Look at the evidence: No secondary explosions, nobody has complained about concussions, loud instantaneous noise, bright momentary light and I can almost guarantee this coincides with the dew point in the area.
Sounds like one of those propane cannons used to scare away birds. Maybe someone has a problem with birds roosting in their trees.
those cops are really chasing their tales on this one. kick ass prank if it is indeed one.
cloverfield
It has to be the aliens.
My guess: someone got their hands on some illuminary rounds the military uses in mortar tubes for night missions. It would be a loud bang, bright light, and probably around 40 ft. in the air. Just my guess.
#6 Rich
“just read on the wbal.com web site”
I checked that out, thanks. Now I’m curious if they’ll charge the guy with some kind of terrorism or just disturbing the peace.
#12. I’m guessing terrorism.
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I’ve done something like this in the past.
1 Weather balloon fill with hydrogen then add some pure oxygen.
Attach a light weight fuse to the balloon, light and release.
The hydrogen and oxygen will detonate with a blinding white flash and very, very loud noise if the mix is ‘good’.
When released, the balloon will rise very quickly if you don’t overdo the oxygen.
Be very careful of the fuse, you do not want it going off too close to you!
The resulting fireball/flash should be about 10+ times the diameter of the balloon.
I’m guessing some sort of aerial reporting firework. They use them in shows around here all the time. Very loud and bright.
Or, it could be as #11 said.
Global warming.
Uhhh, mystery solved…?
http://wjz.com/specialreports/pikesville.flash.baltimore.2.711090.html
from the link:
“… police were able to use footage from a surveillance video camera and determine that the light was coming from a window in a condo complex.
Police went to the complex, talked to neighbors and arrested a man.”
They don’t, however, elude to what caused the noise or the light.
Flash-bangs?
The guy was trying to boot Vista on a machine with 512 MB.
#22
LOL
naw, it woulda’ been a blue flash!
it was an intelligent designer
that, and this is all the proof we need to bomb iran
Who’s this “Moran” guy? The story doesn’t mention him.
[He shares a brain with this guy- ed]
It’s the damn squirrels.
if you watch a few of the videos the officers while being interviewed describe a man who was in war… they said the man when asked if he heard it replied that he thought he was dreaming of the war he had been in… is it possible this same guy who they ruled out was making small explosives and detonating them in the parking lot? lol….? or some other person who had access to M80’s?
I hope they read him his moranda rights
Hey, you kids, get offa my lawn!
BOOM!
🙂
J/P=?