© UnknownResidents from the area explain the loud noise they heard from their house this morning.
But no one seems able to explain what caused people in three counties to hear the booms about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Deputies at first thought it might have been from a farm shooting off a cannon to scare birds away. The migratory cedar waxwing birds love blueberries and some farmers resort to small cannons to shoo them. The Polk County Sheriff's Office often gets complaints of booms in South Lakeland that come from a cannon at a blueberry farm there. But that wouldn't explain why the booms were heard in Polk as well as Pasco and Hillsborough counties.
Some thought it might have been from some type of military maneuver, but MacDill Air Force Base said it wasn't them. Officials there said they had checked with NASA, too. Not them either.
"We just haven't been able to find anything yet," said Sgt. Brandon Shapiro, a public affairs officer for the 6th Air Mobility Wing stationed at MacDill.
No weather conditions could have caused it, said Rodney Wynn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
"The only thing that causes booms in weather is thunderstorms and there definitely wasn't any thunderstorms around here at that time," Wynn said.
It also wasn't an earthquake. The United States Geological Survey did not register an earthquake in Florida, according to USGS spokeswoman Marisa Lubeck,
A Florida Geological Survey spokeswoman also couldn't explain it.
Officials in at least three counties were contacted by residents worried about the noise - 25 people called in Pasco alone. The Polk County Sheriff's Office only received one call. But even more turned to social media to discuss the mysterious booms.
Imaginations started to run wild.
So what does Creel, 32, think happened?
"I don't know," she said. "All I know is I didn't do it."
Comment: See also a chart of reports of strange sounds and booms over the period January 2012 to 8th May 2014 below.