ParaNet BBS/hum

ParaNet BBS/hum

File Name:	hum.txt
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Key Words:	ParaNet, UFO, Ufology

(13894) Tue 22 Jun 93  7:28p
By: Edgars Freibergs
To: All
Re: Taos Humm
St:
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                           The Indianapolis News
                          Tuesday, June 22, 1993
                               [Section B-B]

                    HUMDINGER OF A PROBLEM BAFFLES ALL
                           The Associated Press

[Photo]
K.C Grams keeps an ear out near her home for the strange irritating hum -
for which scientists have no ready explanations.

TAOS. N.M. - K.C Grams hears it: a constant, irritating hum that deprives
her of sleep and depletes her energy.
        Steven Walters hears it: a low, throbbing sound that robs him of
the precious quiet he sought when he left the city.
        Bob Faurie hears it: an unnatural generator-like noise.
It's the Taos hum, a phenomenon fit for a supermarket tabloid, a
sound - or is it? - that not everyone hears and no one has
identified.
        "You know how it is when you're about to go to sleep and one of
those big black flies, or a mosquito, is in your room? Imagine having that
every single night and not being able to swat it. It makes you crazy,"
Grams said.
        When she first heard the sound two years ago, she assumed it was
coming from something in her house. But she couldn't find the source.
        She was horrified that when she went camping 30 miles away, she
still could hear it.
        About a year ago at her son's school, a stranger asked Grams
whether she, too heard a hum.
        "I almost started crying," Grams recalled. "It's such a relief to
know you're not crazy and not alone, and that it's real."
        Experts don't doubt Grams and others. A team of scientists and
engineers spent a week in Taos recently, using sophisticated equipment to
measure acoustic, eletromagnetic and seismic signals. They found no ready
answer.
        "Right now we're not close to being able to say anything. It's
disappointing to all of us," said Joe Mullins, chairman of the mechanical
engineering department at the University of New Mexico and leader of the
team from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories and the U.S Air
Force's Phillips Laboratory.
        The team believes it's probably not an acoustical signal - that is,
not a sound - that hearers are picking up.
        Seven hearers who simulated the sound for the investigators using a
signal generator and a loudspeaker selected low-range frequencies, from 33
to 80 hertz. The range of human hearing is between 20 and 20,000 hetz.
        The Taos hearers are confident the problem isn't with their ears
because they can mask the sound with other noises.
        The more the Taos sound is publicized, the more reports surface
from other places about similar, bothersome noises.
        "I personally have gotten complaints from California, Washington,
Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin - and I know of one in Texas," said UNM's Mullins.
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