Several residents of downtown Natchez said they heard a loud boom noise in the area at approximately 11 p.m. Tuesday.
"Did anyone else hear that super loud noise downtown Natchez?!" Sarah Lindsey Laukhuff posted on social media Tuesday night not long after she said she heard the noise.
Laukhuff's social media post generated several responses with a few people commenting saying they also had heard the noise.
"People said it could have been a transformer," Laukhuff said Wednesday afternoon. "I heard it. It was one big kaboom!"
Laukhuff, who lives on South Commerce Street, said some of her neighbors called her last night saying they had heard the noise, too.
Two mystery 'explosions' were heard across large parts of Doncaster early this morning.
People across town reported hearing two loud bangs with residents in Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun among those hearing the noise between 5.30am and 6am.
On Facebook, Fiona Stocks wrote: "what the hell were those two explosion sounds just now? They were too loud for a firework surely."
Nicola Bloore said: "I heard them as well," and Hilary Clayton said: "We heard them as well couldn't make out what they were."
Sharon Williamson posted: "Same sounds I heard last week too at about 4.50."
Astronomers at an observatory in Central Spain said they spotted two pieces of debris from space falling over the skies of southern Spain yesterday (Sunday).
Scientists at the La Hita observatory in Toledo said the fireballs, one a comet and the other an asteroid, fell within around two hours of each other.
They were also sighted by observers in the Calar Alto observatory in Almeria Province and those at the Granada Province-based La Sagra.
The first debris fell over Spain at around 2.08am yesterday morning. A University of Huelva team who analysed footage of it said it travelled over Andalucia at around 72,000 kilometres per hour before breaking up about 42 kilometres above Jaen Province.
A fireball - thought to be an exploding meteor - has been spotted in the sky over Leicestershire.
Amateur astronomer Derek Robson captured the spectacle from his back garden in Loughborough.
Dr Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society, confirmed the footage appeared to show a genuine fireball.
He said they occur in the UK a number of times each year but they were difficult to predict, so witnessing one or capturing it on camera came down to being in the right place at the right time.
This bright meteor event was spotted over southern Spain on 11 Nov. 2018 at 2:08 local time (1:08 universal time). It was generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 72,000 km/h. The meteor overflew the province of Jaén.
It began at an altitude of about 90 km and ended at a height of around 42 km.
The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project (University of Huelva) from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almeria), La Sagra (Granada) and Sevilla.
Dust associated with Comet Encke hits the Earth's atmosphere at 65,000 mph creating the Taurid meteor shower. Video of fireball near Lexington, KY taken Thursday, November 8th.
The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke and are active from September 10th to November 20th. They are known for being rich with fireballs. By the way, a fireball is just another word for a meteor brighter than the planet Venus. Despite the fact that we are past peak, Ron Malinowski saw this a couple hours ago looking north from Lexington, KY...
Saw part of the Turid Meteor Shower here looking north from Northern Lexington, KY on the drive home tonight looking North Time is ET (local time) #kywxpic.twitter.com/7pxHCiUkAD
It rattled windows, shook buildings and sounded like a thunder clap out the front door.
At about 10 a.m. Monday, a sonic boom struck Tillamook - the result of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
"911 had numerous calls about it," Tillamook County Emergency Management Director Gordon McCraw said. "One dispatcher said someone called wanting to report an explosion."
Prior to the knowledge that a sonic boom ripped across the Tillamook sky, McCraw heard and read comments that placed the blame on an earthquake and people curious if a vehicle had hit their building.
"A majority of the time, a loud boom is an aircraft," he said, "And you can assume it's a sonic boom and not an explosion."
This stunning North Taurid meteor event was spotted over the south of Spain on 3 Nov. 2017 at 0:46 local time (23:46 universal time on 2 Nov.). It was brighter than the full Moon.
It was produced by a fragment from Comet Encke that hit the atmosphere at about 110,000 km/h.
The event overflew the Mediterranean Sea and the province of Almeria. It began at an altitude of about 122 km and ended at a height of around 63 km.
The meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project (University of Huelva) from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada) and Sevilla.
With Halloween festivities been and gone, Mother Nature had a spooky and jaw-dropping show up her sleeve in the form of a fiery meteor blazing a trail across the sky near a US airport.
The fiery space rock, part of the annual Taurid meteor shower, was spotted in several locations above Alabama and Arkansas on Friday night. One video shows the speeding meteor falling from the sky near a US National Weather Service station at Shelby County Airport.
Comment: For details of the 2 other records, see: Meteor fireball over the south of Spain brighter than the full moon
Bright meteor fireball shoots across the sky of Andalusia, Spain - Second for the region within 28 hours