The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that strange things have been going on far out in the ocean:

A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.

The scientists, based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, say the disturbance was caused by a sound wave that started over the ocean and petered out over the Imperial County desert. Using data from more than two dozen seismometers, they traced its likely origin to a spot roughly 120 miles off the San Diego coast.

That spot is in the general vicinity of Warning Area 291, a huge swath of ocean used for military training exercises. The Navy operates a live-fire range on San Clemente Island, which is within Warning Area 291 and sits about 65 miles from Mission Bay.

The Navy says none of its planes were flying at supersonic speeds in that area that morning, and no exercises were going on. San Diego researchers have noticed numerous other non-quake disturbances in the past.

Now that the Blackstar manned spy spaceplane (aka “Aurora”) has been outed — apparently after the program’s demise — we wonder what replaced it. And is it returning to Earth somewhere near San Clemente Island?

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