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This is the first article in which I’ve heard the sonic attacks described as the buffering of an open car window. In one car that I owned, if I opened one of t
by Pyxl101 8y ago
This is the first article in which I’ve heard the sonic attacks described as the buffering of an open car window.
In one car that I owned, if I opened one of the rear windows while driving on the freeway, the buffeting was so “loud” as to be almost painful to everyone in the car. It wasn’t exactly normal sound so much as some kind of oscillating pressure wave.
If diplomats are describing the sonic attack in terms of a buffeting car window then that raises the chance in my mind that these really were sonic or pressure attacks of some kind. I’ve never heard anything produce sound like that naturally.
- iscrewyou 8y agoMy car does that no the freeway. It's very annoying.
- picodguyo 8y agoSlightly opening a rear window fixes this.
- Digit-Al 8y agoI have suffered from tinnitus (which is thankfully clearing up as my ear heals) and I have experienced such sounds. Not the actual pressure waves, but noises in the ear which emulate such noises to a certain extent.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoI've had severe tinnitus for over a decade, and know exactly what you're talking about. It's not just an audio tone, but I very much get these "pressure" feelings inside my skull that line up with the audio tone getting louder at times (the perceived volume of my tinnitus tone gets louder and softer depending on the day, tiredness, weather, etc). I don't know how this could possible be related, as I've never heard of groups of people getting sudden tinnitus together, but I do agree with you that the explanation sounds similar to what I experience.
- Digit-Al 8y agoI wasn't suggesting that they all had tinnitus. The parent comment mentioned not hearing of anything natural that could cause such a buffering effect. I was pointing out there are natural phenomena that can cause such effects.
- SpikeDad 8y agoExcept that because humans are wired for intentionality and causality they naturally are going to try to use existing phenomenon to "explain" their unknown issue. When Encounters of the 3rd Kind was released with aliens as little grey men with big heads suddenly most of the subsequent reports of alien abduction switched to grey aliens with big heads. It's human nature. It's not evidence that the phenomenon is real just because people say it's like a phenomenon that exists.
- ashleyn 8y agoOr, there's something wrong with ventilation in the building. Owing to its nature as an embassy, perhaps people are willing to jump to more sinister conclusions as opposed to if this happened at ACME Headquarters in Omaha.
- robotresearcher 8y ago> It wasn’t exactly normal sound so much as some kind of oscillating pressure wave. That's exactly what sound is.