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Observers map AMS event 7938-2020
Observers map AMS event 7938-2020
One video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: Frank Breedijk.
The meteor fireball can be seen in the top left corner at the 0:11 mark.
Fire in the Sky
One video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: Frank Breedijk.
The meteor fireball can be seen in the top left corner at the 0:11 mark.
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APD says the callers described the noises as "gunshots," "a transformer exploding," and a "loud boom noise." Multiple people said they could hear at least three different booms. One caller also said this happened before in September.
"Calls to 311 being transferred to 911. 911 operator advised of multiple reports but not explanation," one KXAN viewer wrote to us. They also said they've heard the loud noises since approximately September.
Austin Police sent an officer to the area around 3 a.m. That officer drove around but did not hear the loud sounds.
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The 'small explosion' was heard echoing across the streets of May Bank, Basford, Etruria, and Hanley with many wondering what was going on.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed it was not called to any explosions in the area.
But families have still been left scratching their heads and wondering what it was.
One resident said: "There was a small explosion over May Bank. Two or more were then heard with the loudest one over Basford Park."
Another added: "There was a loud bang over Basford, it was close to our house and the floors vibrated."
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My first impression of the footage captured in Eagle on Friday night was that it looked like a large aerial firework. The fact that the object made such a loud noise that actually caused people in this neighborhood to scream out, kind of debunks that theory.
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The sound was captured on Nicholas Serra's home surveillance camera around 7:45 a.m.
"It was a loud bang. Felt like a bomb may have gone off," said Hubbard resident Victoria Malphrus.
The source is still a mystery.
The comments came flooding into WKBN before 9 a.m. Some reported their houses shook. Others said they heard what sounded like a loud explosion.
Mirta Chapman, of the Brier Hill neighborhood in Youngstown, said she was working from home around 8 a.m. when she heard a loud explosion and her house shook.
(The sound of the boom can be heard approximately 20 seconds into this surveillance video submitted by a viewer)
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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), La Hita (Toledo), and Sevilla.
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Regarded by many in the astronomy community as the best meteor display of the year, the Geminids peaked at around 50 meteors per hour. Eyewitness footage from around the world captured the phenomenon, caused by the debris trail of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon.
"[T]he predicted rate for observers in the Northern Hemisphere is closer to 60 meteors per hour," NASA officials wrote. "This means you can expect to see an average of one Geminid per minute in dark skies at the shower peak."
The Slooh online observatory, which remotely operates a number of telescopes around the world, also carries a live stream of the event.
Comment: On December 11th, the American Meteor Society received 22 reports of a fireball over Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Ontario at around 00:29 UTC.