Killer Whales, the gladiators of the ocean that chase smoke.

 Killer Whales, the gladiators of the ocean that chase smoke. 

After some meteor events such as airbursts, impacts and extreme bolides, I've come across unusual whale strandings and fish like marlin. It was evident there had been a hunt, with injuries that consisted of blunt force trauma and removal of body parts. The events were rather messy. It doesn't fit into meteor shower panic strandings, so it wasn't that. Even concussion-type events are not this messy, they are traumatic but not a butcher house, but there was a link. So I went back to find data that was similar and ask myself questions. Why do killer whales go from feeding on fish, seals and pack hunting to expending such energy, so it seems, to chase down enormous pods of dolphins and porpoises or go to war with marlin and whales they don't usually hunt. Killer whales are opportunists, seeking an easy meal. Most of the time they didn't eat the creatures, just killed them for sport. They arrived on the scene and didn't like what they saw and for fun started killing. They might very well find some easy food there or they kill the creatures already gorging themselves. In any case, killing marlin is incredibly hard to do, but broken spines don't lie. If a pod of dolphins is already injured in some way, they might strand them and see what food presents itself. I've noticed this in many incidences where a typical stranding didn't happen after a meteor event but seemed messy and inconsistent. These events were much-removed location-wise and out of the time frame of what is usually seen. Something just doesn't add up. The animals that did were not common to see together and the only reason I could think of is that killer whales are attracted to the event, they find injured creatures and proceed to clean shop so to speak. Another reason this all adds up is that you don't find mass dolphin and porpoise strandings, they are incredibly rare. And I think this is because they are predated on before making landfall. They are little mouthfuls of food for killer whales and giant sharks. I think this also applies to the larger dolphin species as well. We might see 30 or 500 black dolphins come ashore but how many are inside the gut of another animal. These are larger, so predators might only be able to take fewer individuals before landfall. Large baleen whales sometimes wash up on beaches with wounds showing all the hallmarks of killer whale attack and it could be caused by a preceding incident that sets the orca onto it.  I know this is not scientific in any way shape or form; these are just observations. It's like the killer whales are vultures circling a fire waiting for prey to succumb. 

 Example of Electrophonic Meteor.

In 1895 New Zealand, Queenstown, Gibbston a meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at 9:30. Two large explosions were heard that turned night into day. The peculiarity of the explosions was that the people widely apart saw the "fireball" appearing quite near them, while the explosion seemed to be under their very noses as if the whole performance had been got up for their special benefit. It must have been a truly complaisant meteor one witness said. In the lead-up to the event there had been an unusual accumulation of electricity in the atmosphere, and several highly brilliant pyrotechnic displays had been the result, all of which were seen by numerous spectators. This included a cloud of luminous vapour that had risen from the ground to a height of thirty feet, covering a space of about sixty feet square. Light dwelt some five seconds after the appearance of the meteor.

Three days after the event above the ship Anthons was enroute from New Zealand to Australia when a meteor shower happened during a thunderstorm. The captain said the sight was a “fearfully grand one”.

A note to remember is that electrophonic meteors are not sonic booms, they are vibrations, loud vibrations that sound like incredibly loud explosions. The sonic boom could be there in the event but it is usually to high up and faint to hear until some minutes later. Another thing I've noticed is that electrophonic meteors can sometimes be concentrated in a rather small area.