I’m updating this on March 30, 2024 after recently having had several unsual experiences. First, there was a very strange sunset encounter with spotlights forming rectangles headed for me. I have video of that. It seems so unlikely that moving clouds could make a rectangle near me twice. I guess there were two layers of clouds, and the moving ones did this while the stationary layer made the rectangles appear. Anyway, it was super strange and beautiful.
What I have also experienced, twice, is a very clear yet invisible rustling sound, like a cat in a paper bag in my home. My ears localized these phenomena as coming from a specfic area on the ground in my apartment between 5 and 10 feet away. The sound was not of something falling, it was an extended moving, perhaps about 6 seconds. It was not in the walls or in the ceiling. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck in both cases as there was simply nothing there when I walked over to investigate.
Later, talking with friends, I wondered if an alien language might be so very different from ours that it might sound like a cat rustling around in a paper bag. Perhaps I am being contacted? Seems absurd. Then again, so does an invisible rustling paper bag.
I thought about crumpling a paper bag back in return, but I then worried that my cumpling the bag in the wrong way might insult them. Then again, they might like it and save our planet. Anyway, I decided to just listen if it happens again, and try, once again, to find the location of this mysterious sound in my space.
I’m not saying it’s aliens. Much more likely would be a brain malfunction (however that seems less likely since two of my friends reported the same thing in their homes around the same day), or some space invader EMF experiment of some kind. Why? Perhaps the same reason Art Bell saw a silent triangular UFO with his wife one night, just to mess with him and get some attention.
Sound Projection Technologies
If it’s not a brain malfuction or aliens, here is another high tech way someone could have potentially twice done a trick to make me hear a paper bag sound appear where there was nothing:
A directional speaker or audio system can project the sound of a rustling paper bag to a different direction than where the actual speakers are. The ability to make sound appear to originate from a specific location is achieved through the careful control and positioning of multiple speakers, along with advanced signal processing techniques[1][3][5].
Q: Have I had contact with people at the leading edge of technology, including those doing sound for Hollywood?
Yes, I have.
Q: Did I find any hidden speakers systems?
No.
Q: Could this be done by focusing beamforming WiFi to make sound?
No, not as far as is publically known. Beamforming audio is possible, but again, it requires speakers.
Beamforming Audio
Yes, beamforming audio can make it sound like a sound is coming from a place it is not. Here’s a summary of how this works:
Beamforming audio uses an array of speakers or microphones to selectively direct sound waves to specific locations in space. [6][7] By carefully controlling the phase and amplitude of the signals sent to each speaker, beamforming can create “sound bubbles” or “sound zones” where the audio is focused. [7]
This allows beamforming to place sounds at precise positions, even if the actual speakers are located elsewhere. For example, a beamforming soundbar can make it seem like audio is coming from specific points in front of the listener, even though the sound is actually emanating from the single soundbar unit. [6]
The key is that beamforming manipulates the interference patterns of the sound waves to reinforce the signal in the desired location while cancelling it out in other areas. [8][9] This spatial filtering effect enables beamforming to create the illusion that sound is originating from a different position than the actual speaker array. [7]
So in summary, yes – the precise control over sound directionality provided by beamforming technology allows audio to be positioned in ways that do not match the physical location of the speakers. This can be used to create immersive, personalized audio experiences. [6][7]
Back to Aliens, Because it’s Fun
When I think about what alien contact might be like, however, this seems to me much more like what an actual alien encounter might be, as compared to anything one might see in human-made movies, you know, the kind with humanoid aliens.
There is another strange aspect to this. As I was talking to the first friend who had the invisible rat, we started talking about coyotes at one point and when I talked to a friend later that night, he mentioned seeing a beautiful coyote appear, the first time he has seen one in the area. It kept appearing as he and his wife walked. We figured out this was about the time my friend and I were talking about a coyote. Then I had this thought…
Collective Social Messaging Theory
What if there is some big picture message, a communication of great usefulness and importance, which we each only get a part of? I had the intution that if I asked enough friends about their experiences around this, it might form a picture of something. Then again, perhaps not. It’s an interesting thought though, a distributed message in the form of human experiences among people who know eachother.
Anyway, be on the look(listen)out for forms of contact, such as the “invisible cat in the invisible bag” aliens. Perhaps contact via some means as yet unknown to our physics happens all the time, but we ignore it.
Citations
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/cmn29d/making_sound_come_from_specific_locations_in_a/?rdt=39390
[2] https://www.344audio.com/post/the-ultimate-guide-to-audio-post-production-sound-design
[3] https://sonicmaps.xyz
[4] https://www.zapsplat.com/free-sound-effects-for-filmmakers/
[5] https://theconversation.com/just-for-you-how-to-create-sounds-that-only-you-can-hear-in-a-venue-62355
[6] https://www.howtogeek.com/865070/what-is-beamforming-audio/
[7] https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/holoplot-beamforming-audio/
[8] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.6080.pdf
[9] https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Educational%20Notes/STO-EN-AVT-287/EN-AVT-287-04.pdf
[10] https://vocal.com/beamforming-2/sound-source-localization/