Aliens in Arkansas? Mysterious “Fire Hole” Baffles Experts
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(NEWSER) – A small hole in Arkansas shot flames eight to nine feet high earlier this week and no one seems to know why, THV11 reports. Firefighters responded Monday to reports of the hole and found flames shooting for up for 30 to 45 minutes before the whole thing died down. “I took a temperature reading of it and it showed 780 degrees inside the hole,” says fire chief Donald Tucker. “But what caused it? I have no idea. There’s no gas lines nearby and there was no smell of natural gas.” Officials also dismissed theories that fossil fuels, a lightning strike, or meteor strike ignited the 3.5-foot deep hole in Midway, a town of about 1,000 in northern Arkansas, per the Wichita Eagle.
“We don’t believe that the devil showed up, or the meteorites landed, or the big booms happened,” a judge tells KY3. A state official tells the Springfield News-Leader that “it looks like an existing hole was there” and adds that “it smelled like burned plastic to me.” Which leaves? Not much, except social media: “Oh that’s just aliens drilling for fuel,” quips one commenter on a Facebook page about Arkansas weather. Others put it down to “Superman” or “giant spiders,” while another mentioned the FBI shutdown at the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico: “Not saying it’s connected, but it would be interesting timing if there was an increase in meteorological activity.
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Karst geography is generally layered rock.
Channeling of vapor or liquid is a given…miles even!
Nearby airport fuel leak/leaching?
Nearby gas stations?
Buried over makeshift landfill?
3 Best guesses.
Black Hills may not have nearby gas pipeline,
but given the geography… who knows?
Has anyone put a Geiger counter on it?
..curiously..?
Arkansas is the scene of a lot of fracking. There are a huge number of wells and who knows what pockets of gas are accumulating in the countless natural caves in the Ozarks and mixing with the air in them.
And BTW natural gas has no smell unless it’s added at the distribution point as a safety measure.
Aliens? might as well say demons or elves or the Deep State.
I hadn’t considered that. I wonder if the “experts” have, and, if so if they will be confident enough in their findings to make them public?