{"id":3503,"date":"2016-11-30T00:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2016-11-30T00:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:12:40","slug":"nrl-investigations-east-coast-acoustics-events-2-december-1977-15-february-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/nrl-investigations-east-coast-acoustics-events-2-december-1977-15-february-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Investigations of East Coast Acoustics Events, 2 December 1977 &#8211; 15 February 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On 5 January 1978, in response to a memorandum from the Department of Defense (Appendix 1), the Chief of Naval Research directed the Naval Research \u00a0Laboratory to form a study team to carry out a short, intensive investigation to determine the causes of a series of startling acoustic events that had disturbed residents of coastal New Jersey and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Significant public response to these events began on 2 December 1977 and continued at intervals to the present (end of February 1978).<\/p>\n<p>To meet the objectives set forth by the tasking memorandum, the Naval Research Laboratory established an Ad Hoc Study Team on 5 January 1978. Members of the team were experts in specific areas drawn from the Laboratory&#8217;s various Science and Technology Directorates\u00a0as well as from military personnel assigned to the Laboratory. The original team membership was as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3504 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-05-38.jpg\" alt=\"2016-11-29_16-05-38\" width=\"421\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-05-38.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-05-38-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-05-38-150x87.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additional expert personnel were added to the core Task Force as needed. These individuals\u00a0included<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-06-38-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"2016-11-29_16-06-38\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-06-38-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-06-38-150x60.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-06-38.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below, you will find the declassified document\/study that the NRL conducted.<\/p>\n<h3>Declassified Document<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/navy\/nrlacoustics.pdf\">NRL Investigations of East Coast Acoustics Events, 2 December 1977 &#8211; 15 February 1978<\/a> [155 Pages,\u00a022.8MB]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background On 5 January 1978, in response to a memorandum from the Department of Defense (Appendix 1), the Chief of Naval Research directed the Naval Research \u00a0Laboratory to form a study team to carry out a short, intensive investigation to determine the causes of a series of startling acoustic events that had disturbed residents of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[937,936,56,938,864],"class_list":{"0":"post-3503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-fringe","8":"tag-acoustics","9":"tag-fringe","10":"tag-navy","11":"tag-nrl","12":"tag-unidentified"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-29_16-10-43.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}