>
>
> It is commonly reported that incoming meteorites are sometimes "heard"
> by some people. (Is that indefinite enough :-) ). If this is not a
> psychological generation of apparent audio by visual stimulus then it
> *must* be caused by perception of RF signals as the sound path from
> the events in the very high atmosphere, if there was one, would take
> vastly longer than the viewing time.



I can speak to that.

Two friends and I were crossing the bridge in iroquois point, Oahu, Hawaii,
at about 9 or 10 PM.
It was completely dark, and we all three heard a noise we couldn't identify,
and were looking around, for about a second, then a bolide appeared,
crossing from east of us to north of us.
The light was bright enough to cast a shadow, a bright green.  The noise was
sort of a sizzling, not loud.

We went to the seismic observatory in Ewa Beach as soon as we could, maybe
30 mins on bike, but they did not register any impact.  We didn't see it
come down, and concluded that it either burned up, or skipped back out of
the atmosphere.

Interestingly, there were no reports in the paper, and apparently few others
noticed it.
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