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Mystery 'boom' heard over Bath, England in early morning hours

Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson
Somerset Live
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:42 UTC
Bath City Centre
© Artur Lesniak/Bath Chronicle
Reports of a 'massive boom' in Bath have been circulating since the early hours of this morning.

Nobody seems to know what the noise was, which seemingly took place at around 12.22am (Sunday December 6).

One person on Twitter said: "Anyone in Bath UK hear that? MASSIVE boom???"

To which someone replied: "Yeah, what was it?"

When asked what kind of noise it was, the witness said: "A really loud concussive bang. Felt it as well as heard it. It echoed. Nothing like a firework or a car back firing."
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Ground-shaking, loud explosion reported across Escambia County, Florida (again)


northescambia.com
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:43 UTC
Mystery boom (stock)
© WYFF
The sounds of an explosion or rattling and shaking were heard or felt across part of Escambia County early Friday afternoon, and so far no one seems to know why.

Beginning about 12:15 p.m., NorthEscambia.com was flooded with messages and comments from people reporting the incident. As of 12:40 p.m., Escambia County 911 had not received any calls reporting damage.

A majority of the comments were concentrated in the Cantonment and Beulah areas, but other reports were received from across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties

So far, the U.S. Geological Survey has not reported an earthquake.

Comment: Uhm, this is almost identical to the report this North Escambria publication put out 2 months earlier in October 2020.

escambria loud boom
Deja vu?!
escambria loud boom
It could simply be a repeat of the same phenomenon, and the little outlet is so asleep they didn't even realize the same thing happened again...?

Stranger things have happened!

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Loud boom heard across central New York state apparently a meteoroid


WYSR
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:19 UTC
Loud boom central New York
© 9 ABC News
Just after noon, many people across our region heard a loud boom and felt some shaking. People on social media are commenting that they heard the noise in Onondaga, Madison, and Oswego counties.

Here is a map of reported fireball sightings around the Northeast Wednesday afternoon.

According to the American Meteor Society, the sound heard across Central New York came at the same time witnesses reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky in other areas not under dense cloud cover.

"We currently have 41 reports of this fireball." Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told us. "It seems that central New York and northern Pennsylvania had cloudy skies and therefore did not see the fireball. If skies had been clear I'm certain that the trajectory would shift toward central NY, where the reports of sounds are numerous."


Comment: See also: Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontario

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Bright meteor fireball over the Mediterranean Sea on December 2


Meteoroides.net
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:12 UTC
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This beautiful meteor was spotted form Spain on 2020 December 3 at 0:40 local time (equivalent to 23:40 universal time on Dec. 2). It overflew the Mediterranean Sea.

The bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 147,000 km / h. It began at an altitude of about 112 km over the sea, and ended at a height of around 72 km after traveling about 77 km in the Earth's atmosphere.

The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Seville.

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Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontario

Katherine DeClerq
CTV News
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 14:13 UTC
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A meteor travelling an estimated 100,000 kilometers an hour is believed to have fallen into the earth's atmosphere on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in multiple reports of a bright flash of light above Toronto and some streaks of fire in the sky across southern Ontario.

Around noon, a number of GTA residents reported seeing a fireball trail across the sky while others said they saw a large flash of nearly blinding light.

A camera on the CN Tower captured a split-second view of the flash of light across the Toronto skyline.

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Mysterious, loud 'boom' shakes North Okanagan, British Columbia residents

Brendon Shykora
Keremeos Review
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:31 UTC
Loud boom in Okangan,BC
© keremeosreview.com (file photo)Village of Lumby
As many as 100 residents in the Lumby area have reported hearing a sudden, deafening noise just after 12 p.m. Friday.

And so far, nobody seems to know what caused it.

Rob Blake said the noise sounded like a loud explosion, in a post on the Around the Block Lumby Facebook page around 12:10 p.m. Nov. 27.

"It was like a volcano erupted," Blake said.

"Did anyone just hear that big boom, Creighton Valley Rd," his post reads. Since then, the post has racked up more than 125 comments, with people reporting they heard the sound from various locations in the area.
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Meteor fireball sighted by 90 observers over Germany


Business Today
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:18 UTC
Fireball sighted over Germany
Fireball sighted over Germany
About 90 sightings were notified to the fireball network within a span of some hours, according to Berlin's Technical University.

Western Germany on Saturday witnessed a mysterious fireball darting through its night sky, as per the statement of some astronomers.

The bright streak caused by the fireball lasted about 5 to 7 seconds, ending in a jade (forest green) colour and diverging into two smaller blips, a witness at Siegen near Bonn had conveyed to the "fireball network." The said network is run by Berlin's Technical University (TU) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

"Most probably it was an asteroid fragment that had entered the atmosphere," said DLR fireball expert Dieter Heinlein on Sunday, linking the position of the spectacle the evening before to be over Kassel city in central Germany.

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Meteor fireball 'as bright as full moon' spotted in night sky over Japan - 2nd for the country in 4 days


Kyodo News
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:05 UTC
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Social media was abuzz Sunday after reports that an object emitting an intense light had been spotted falling from the skies above Japan in the early hours of the morning.

The fireball, believed to be a bolide -- a type of shooting star often compared to a full moon for its brightness -- could be seen clearly from parts of western and central Japan.

A man in his 20s living in Gifu Prefecture was able to capture the shooting star on camera as it momentarily lit up the sky at around 1:35 a.m. Sunday morning.

"It made a rumbling noise," one Twitter user wrote, while another said, "The sky went totally bright."


Comment: The other fireball was filmed on November 25 (26?):



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Meteor fireball captured blazing over Connecticut


Sott.net
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:34 UTC
Meteor over Lyme, CT
© YouTube/AMS (screen capture)
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 24 reports (event 7131-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over CT, MA, NJ, NY, PA and RI on Friday, November 27th 2020 around 07:13 UT.

For this event, it received one video.

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Spate of 3 meteor fireballs are seen exploding over Brazil

Adry Torres
Daily Mail
Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:56 UTC
Carlos Fernando Jung, the south region director of the Brazilian Meteor Monitoring Network, said the meteor entered the atmosphere at an altitude of 64 miles and lasted 1.05 seconds before it blew up at 58.7 miles above the surface
Carlos Fernando Jung, the south region director of the Brazilian Meteor Monitoring Network, said the meteor entered the atmosphere at an altitude of 64 miles and lasted 1.05 seconds before it blew up at 58.7 miles above the surface
This is the moment a bright meteor crossed the sky over Brazil and exploded.

The phenomenon was captured on camera by the Heller and Jung Space Observatory early Monday as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

The center's surveillance system, located in the city of Taquara, recorded the the meteor exploding some 462 miles away near the border between Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay approximately at 2:31am local time.


Comment: The other 2 fireballs were captured on film over northeast Brazil in the states of Alagoas and Paraíba on November 20:



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