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Question

What was that loud boom near Clemmons, North Carolina? No one knows

John Hinton
Winston-Salem Journal
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:26 UTC
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Numerous people reported on social media that they heard a loud ground-shaking boom around 9 p.m. Monday night in Clemmons and western Forsyth County.

However, state and federal officials say they don't know why it happened or what it was.

Scott Sharp, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, said the boom could have been distant thunder coming from storms that moved through Davie, Yadkin, Stokes and Davidson counties at the time.

Dan Blakeman, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center in Denver, said there were no reports of earthquakes anywhere Monday night in North Carolina.
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Flashlight

Unexplained boom heard across Hamilton, Ontario remains a mystery

Matthew Van Dongen
The Hamilton Spectator
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:07 UTC
Boom in Hamilton, ON
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The mystery boom in the wee hours Saturday was a literally moving experience for Bryan Adlam.

"I heard the boom - it was quite loud - but I also felt it. I felt my house move," said the real estate agent, who lives in the Crown Point neighbourhood near the escarpment.

Turns out bewildered residents across the city heard the same thing after 2 a.m. On the beach strip. The Mountain. Even Ancaster.

Adlam posted a question about the sound blast on Facebook that quickly spawned 500-plus comments, theories and, obviously, fart jokes.

But so far, the source of the thunderous bang remains a mystery.

Was it a supersonic jet? An industrial accident? A skyquake? Nobody seems to know.
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Attention

Residents concerned after they hear, feel loud boom in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Will Lewis
WFMZ
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:34 UTC
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People living in the New Tripoli area of Lehigh County want to know what caused an explosion Tuesday morning.

They say they heard or felt a blast, but authorities say they can't determine a cause.

Micki Tapper says she was awake at 7:30 a.m. That's when she heard it.

"There was just a really loud boom. My house shook, my windows shook," Tapper said.

The sound is picked up by her security camera microphone. You can hear a noise, but you can't discern much about it, or how far away it was.

Still, it was alarming. Tapper says she went outside to look around her home because she thought a tree fell on her house.


Comment: You can hear the booming sound starting at :25 in WTMZ's video coverage.

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Fireball 5

Nuke sensors detect asteroid explosion in the atmosphere over the Caribbean

Dr.Tony Phillips
Spaceweather
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:22 UTC
Asteroid Explosion
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On June 22nd at 21:25 UT, a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded in broad daylight south of Puerto Rico. Airwaves recorded by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization's infrasound station in Bermuda pegged the blast energy between 3 and 5 kilotons of TNT-a fraction of a WW II atomic bomb. The explosion was clearly visible in images from NOAA's GOES-16 weather satellite:


Meteor expert Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario says the infrasound signal is consistent with a "small multi-meter sized near-Earth asteroid." According to data compiled by NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, asteroids of this size and energy hit Earth's atmosphere about once a year. That means it's rare-but not exceptionally so.
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Fireball

Meteor fireball sends shockwaves over Queensland, Australia


Yahoo News
Sat, 22 Jun 2019 20:03 UTC
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Weather monitoring cameras have captured the moment a meteor exploded over Queensland, Australia on Saturday night (June 22)

According to the operator of the cameras, the blast at 10 pm sent shockwaves towards the Brisbane area.

A second camera showed the blast lighting the sky green above homes in the city of Ipswich.
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Meteor fireball seen over Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New York and New Jersey


Sott.net
Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:33 UTC
Fireball over PA
© Christoper S.
On June 8, 2019, over 30 reports were received by the American Meteor Society of a fireball seen in six northeast US states. Christoper S. in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania captured the meteor on his security camera:

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Reports of meteor fireball seen over west Texas


Sott.net
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:00 UTC
Fireball over Hawley, TX
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The American Meteor Society received 4 reports of a fireball over west Texas on June 15, 2019. Kevin P. filmed the meteor as it flew over Hawley:

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Meteor fireball flying over the Ozarks in Arkansas captured on skycam


Sott.net
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:27 UTC
Fireball over the Ozarks, AR
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On June 10, 2019, The American Meteor Society received two reports of a fireball over the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas. The meteor was also visible in southwest Missouri. William M.'s Allsky camera in Marshall, Arkansas captured the event:

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Meteor fireball seen flying over Flagstaff, Arizona


Sott.net
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:19 UTC
Fireball over Flagstaff, AZ
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The American Meteor Society received 2 reports of a fireball over Flagstaff, Arizona on June 11, 2019. Spalding Allsky Camera Network S. was able to film footage of the event:
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Fireball

Meteor fireball soars over Qujing in China's Yunnan province


Sott.net
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 05:00 UTC
Fireball over Qujing, China
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On June 8, 2019, the American Meteor Society received a report of a meteor seen over of China's Yunnan province. Y. Wang caught video of the fireball as it flew over Qujing:

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