In the late 70s, as I was driving home one summer night with the car window open, I saw a large fireball meteor and at the same time, I heard a hissing sound that sounded like a pop bottle being opened slowly. Thinking about it later, it seemed impossible that the sound had come from the meteor: Any sound that far away should have taken considerable time to reach me. I decided that I must have heard an unrelated sound and my brain had simply assumed that it had come from the meteor.
In the late 90s, I came across an article about a guy who was asking for reports from people who had heard similar sounds from meteors -- and there were a lot. At the time, most scientists made the same assumption that I had: that it was impossible, so people were just being confused by a simultaneous sound or just imagining things. After years of study and experiments, however, the theory of "electrophonic meteors" is now widely accepted. It seems that under certain conditions, a meteor can create low-frequency radio ways which travel at the speed of light and which can cause certain objects to vibrate, converting the radio waves to sound -- a natural transducer. I have dry, frizzy hair, and I was wearing metal frame glasses, two factors identified in many of the reports. Sometimes, dry leaves can do it.
Anyone here ever heard a meteor?
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