2014: The impacts the world didn't notice and the cetacean strandings that followed

2014: The Honduras-Nicaragua Meteor-Stranding Corridor.

The year 2014 provides some of the most compelling evidence for the theory that meteor airbursts and fragmenting bolides act as a primary catalyst for mass cetacean strandings. In the Caribbean-Central American corridor, we see a distinct "acoustic shadow" effect where high-energy atmospheric events are followed—often within days—by the disorientation of deep-diving species. There was no better evidence of activity in the region than what happened on September 6 when a meteor struck Honduras leaving an impact crater. Observers in Panama and Costa Rica (Honduras' neighbours) were part of a global monitoring team that recorded bright bolides during this window. 2014 was a year of "unusual mortality" across the Northern Gulf and Caribbean, often peaking in the months of May and July.

January 2, 2014: Asteroid 2014 AA Impact. The first asteroid discovered that year impacted the atmosphere only 21 hours after detection. Infrasound stations across the Caribbean and Atlantic basin (Bermuda, Brazil and Bolivia) recorded the atmospheric pressure wave, placing the impact over the Atlantic/Caribbean basin.

The April "Dual Bolide" and the Deep-Diver Emergence. "Honduras-Nicaragua Fireball". The activity began in earnest between April 5–7, 2014. A massive bolide, described by witnesses as a "sky divided by fire" with red and green flashes, crossed the Honduran interior toward the Caribbean coast, primarily Olancho and El Paraíso, but visible across the northern and eastern corridors. The Dual Bolide, resulted in a powerful "estruendo" (sonic boom). The Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras (COPECO) and astronomers from the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) launched a field expedition to search for impact sites near Trojes, El Paraíso, after residents reported ground tremors and a "bomb-like" blast.

May 9 & May 23–24, 2014: The Camelopardalid Shower Window. May 9: A date aligning with erratic fireball activity reported along the Central American coast. May 23: Peak of the Camelopardalids (Comet 209P/LINEAR). Produced high-intensity fireballs across the Western Hemisphere. May–June 2014: Deep-Diver Surge (Caribbean Coast). Within weeks of this low-altitude airburst, the region saw its first-ever published accounts of Dwarf Sperm Whales (Kogia sima) and Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) in the shallow coastal waters of the Honduras-Nicaragua corridor. These deep-divers are notoriously sensitive to the low-frequency infrasound produced by such airbursts.

The July 7 "Tela Window" and the Utila Stranding. One of the tightest correlations in the 2014 data occurred in July, centered near Tela, Honduras. On July 7, 2014: Reports of luminous phenomena and mysterious atmospheric booms over the Caribbean coast, likely debris from the approaching Asteroid 2014 RC system. On July 12, (The 5-Day Lag): Exactly five days after the "Tela Window," a rare False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) calf stranded on the beach in Utila (only 35km from Tela). The arrival of an oceanic, pelagic species in the shallow Bay Islands is a textbook indicator of navigational failure following an atmospheric acoustic event. July: "Unusual Mortality Event" (UME) for the wider Caribbean and Gulf region. “Fireball Fever” grips Honduras.

The September 6. Managua Meteor Impact: Physical Proof (see Image). On September 6–7, 2014, the theory moved from observation to physical evidence. The Event: At 11:05 PM, a massive "dark airburst" (an impact without a visible fireball) struck near the Managua airport, leaving a 12-meter (39-foot) wide crater. While a physical crater was formed, there was no visible fireball reported, leading scientists to believe it was a "dark" airburst or a high-velocity impactor that arrived from a sunward direction. The Aftermath: This event, occurring just 13 hours before the close pass of Asteroid 2014 RC, was followed by a significant surge of strandings along the Mosquitia coast (the border region of Honduras and Nicaragua). Pelagic species like Spinner and Pantropical Spotted Dolphins began appearing in coastal mudflats—environments they usually avoid at all costs.

The November Blue Whale. The 2014 sequence culminated on November 17, 2014, with the rare stranding of an 18.5-meter Blue Whale on Popoyo Beach, Nicaragua. The juvenile is one of the rarest stranding events in the region’s history. Blue whales are highly reliant on the exact low-frequency ranges produced by bolide infrasound. Blue whales communicate and navigate using the exact low-frequency ranges generated by large bolide entries. The repeated atmospheric pounding of the region throughout the summer and autumn likely created a "disorientation trap" that even the largest creatures on Earth could not escape.