Well, if it was a meteor you are very unlikely to have heard it- meteors are usually several tens of miles up in the atmosphere, and if they did make a sound it would be a few minutes before the sound reached your ears.

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Not always!

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddcsk/gelphonx.htm

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Keay only last week and chatting to him about this very phenomenon. A most remarkable gentleman.

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I should have been able to hear it because, as I said before, it seemed to pass overhead only about, say, 100m high.

skyglow1

I have to say that most meteors don't pass over at 100 metres up, (although it is difficult to judge the height of an object in the sky);

also the electrophonic sounds are somewhat debateable; I have heard of this, a lovely idea, but a rare phenomenon, if it happens at all.

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If it was 100m up, it was not a meteor. By the time a meteoroid reaches that (lack of) altitude, it has lost all (or at least most) of its horizontal velocity and is due to impact the ground in a few milliseconds.

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Kilopi, I'm not sure what problems either person had. I speak quite often on the phone with people who know them, and I'll ask for more details. One of the cases was quite a long time ago. With an eclipse of the moon coming up quite soon, I'd like to know exactly what was going on in these cases.

Was he looking at the moon through a telescope or binoculars? Did he get confused about what type of an eclipse it was? Did he slip and fall and hit his head while running outside to see the eclipse (ok, i'm reaching a bit).

I think both of them were observing with the naked eye. If I'm mistaken, I'll post later and let you know.