Mystery Hum Baffles Strangford Lough Residents

13th November 2019

MacDara Conroy

Strangford Lough in Co Down Credit: Tony Hisgett/Wikimedia

Residents around Strangford Lough were baffled at the weekend of a mysterious ‘humming’ sound heard around its waters, as the Belfast Telegraph reports.

The droning noise can be faintly detected in a video posted by Ian McConnell on Twitter, who said the sound lasted for “hours” into the small hours of Saturday 9 November.

Another Twitter user conducted a spectrum analysis of the sound, revealing its peak frequencies.

Anyone else hear this weird #hum over Strangford Lough area last night? What is it??? It went on for hours. pic.twitter.com/2Lxu1rLcxz
— Tallow Ketch (@TallowKetch) November 9, 2019

A quick analysis with my spectrum analyser app gives me these peak frequencies. pic.twitter.com/R7tb7Y3Cd0
— Mark Stronge (@markoftec) November 10, 2019

But speculation as to the origins of the noise remains rife, with suggestions ranging from the newly introduced 5G mobile network to a car horn and even ‘the sound of Brexit’.

The Belfast Telegraph has more on the story HERE.

Published in Northern Ireland Waters

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