Compiled by Caijng

From Caijing Online

The southern city of Chongqing, which had recently experienced a strong earthquake, was rocked three times on January 8 by a strange sound that resembled an explosion.

Rumors had it that the noises were a chain explosions set off by the crash of a fighter jet from the Chengdu military base. This was officially denied three days later.

Flight training happened as usual at that day, said the head of the base, and no problems were encountered in the mission, according to a report on Xinhua Net. He went further, adamantly denying that base had anything to do with an explosion or the sounds.

According to witnesses, the noises shook the city around 3 p.m., reverberating through three districts in the north of the city. The sound was so loud that some citizens thought another earthquake was happening and ran from their houses into the street.

Afterward, people found they could not make a telephone call until around 6 p.m. A police officer announced later that night that dead lines were the result of a switch error, not the sounds.

There local news attempted to find the cause of the sounds, but every possibility was ruled out. The civil aviation department said no air crash happened, and the fire department received no reports of the incident. The government of Chongqing also claimed they did not received no reports.

And so the source of the sounds remains unclear, with still no official explanation offered.