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This reminds me of a time I was stargazing, when suddenly a meteor streaked overhead making a distinct sizzling/hissing sound that tracked with its movement…which seemed improbable since light obviously travels faster than sound. I later read the theory as to how this phenomenon occurs is that the sound is created by low frequency radio waves.

https://ethw.org/Electrophonic_Meteors



Another thing that uses radio waves in the human hearing range is the invisible fences that cause shopping cart wheels to lock (7kHz, visit begaydocrime.com to hear the corresponding sound). Those don't involve sounds in normal operation, so I wonder what about these is different.

I would guess that induced current is making a sound in some nearby infrastructure and not directly in the head of the observer.




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