On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:55:37 -0700, slide
wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:


I would conjecture that something like a large meteorite hitting the
water offshore could create a similar effect. The successive waves
of high and low water would be the outward spreading rings from the
impact, similar to that created by a stone thrown into the water. The
outer approaches to Boothbay Harbor may have served to focus and
intensify the waves in some way.

Good thought. Large meteorites aren't detectable by any means known to
modern man.

Meteorites show on radar, and are visible, if even as large as a grain
of sand. Just what makes the large ones harder to detect than tiny
ones? A fifty foot,estimated, one grazed the atmosphere but missed the
surface, and departed. Several photographs of the event have been
published. It was visible in broad daylight. Had it struck the earth,
the impact would have shown up on every seismograph on the ;planet.
Note that they are only meteorites after they hit. Before, they are
meteors, and will, if distant enough, be indetectable.

Casady