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Thunder? Mystery boom jolts awake residents of Tauranga, New Zealand


stuff.co.nz
Tue, 30 May 2017 20:27 UTC
Lightning in a thunderstorm
© stuff.co.nzMetService says the loud bang was probably thunder, but not all locals are convinced.
A mystery bang is the talk of Tauranga after it woke many locals in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Police and MetService say it was likely just thunder, but residents aren't so sure.

One local believed it could have been a meteor, another thought it was an earthquake, while a third believed a "sonic boom" was the cause.

Helen Lynam wasn't convinced that it was thunder. "It was loud and like a boom/bang sound. I didn't think it was thunder, it didn't have that sort of sound to it."

A member of the Tauranga Weather Facebook group said her pets had been "going weird" in the moments before the noise was heard.
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Nottingham, UK residents woken by strange 'whooshing' noise


BBC
Sat, 27 May 2017 19:56 UTC
Strange sounds in Nottingham, UK
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A strange whooshing noise has been waking Nottingham residents in the middle of the night.

The sound has been likened to that made by a jet engine, a hot air balloon or a giant blowtorch.

Some worried residents have contacted Nottinghamshire Police, who said the noise could be from machinery.

It has been heard for several weeks, with reports coming as far north as Wollaton and as far south as West Bridgford.

"For the last two mornings, I've heard a series of noises outside my house in Wollaton which sounds like a giant blowtorch," resident Hayley Compton said.


Comment: Another strange sounds recording was posted to YouTube on May 26th by Paul Millard:

Very strange deep sort of wind sounds coming from the sky above Nottingham. This was recorded at around 03:30 to 04:00 but has continued after while I've been uploading the video. Very strange and quite unnatural. I've not heard anything like this at all.


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Residents across Kent, UK mystified by loud bang


Kent Online
Fri, 26 May 2017 11:54 UTC
Loud boon in Kent
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Police say they are as mystified as everyone else as to the cause of a loud bang heard across large parts of Kent last night.

People living in Medway, the Isle of Sheppey, Deal and as far north as Bromley and Beckenham reported hearing the noise.

One Rochester resident took to social media to say the bang was so loud that birds flew out of a tree.

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'War of the worlds': Strange booming noises heard above Nottingham, UK

Hannah Mitch
Nottingham Post
Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00 UTC
strange sounds nottingham
The unexplained noise has been described as a "roaring" and "rumbling" noise, which has happened every few minutes over night.

A loud "booming" noise has been heard above Nottingham and people are desperate to find out what it was.

The unexplained noise has been described as a "roaring" and "rumbling" noise, which has happened every few minutes over night.

Many people have taken to Twitter to try and find out where it is coming from with one person saying: "It sounds like the war of the worlds in Nottingham at the moment. Unknown catastrophically loud noise every two minutes."
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'Banging sounds from the sky' recorded in Staten Island, New York

Mr. Nice Guy
YouTube
Tue, 16 May 2017 20:14 UTC
Staten Island skyline
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Strange sounds, banging sound, ufo, sound, alien, aliens, banging coming from the sky.

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Strange 'drum-like' booms heard in the sky over southwest Louisiana

Kara Fuselier
YouTube
Thu, 04 May 2017 19:36 UTC
Strange sounds in the sky
At 8:40 pm, May 4th 2017, I hear very loud noise sounds like giant plane over house so i charged my phone went out and started recording... Sorry for all the talking. Mid-video is best footage of this online.


Comment: The booming noises start at around 2:12.


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Unexpected and extremely loud bang rocks awake residents of Sydney, Australia

Benedict Brook
news.au.com
Wed, 24 May 2017 23:07 UTC
Fog rolls through Sydney Harbour
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Nervous Sydneysiders thought the worst when they were rocked awake in the early hours by a mystery — and extremely loud — bang.

Steph, from Sydney's lower North Shore told news.com.au "I genuinely thought the Harbour Bridge had blown up it was so loud. The apartment building shook and the blinds fell down in our lounge room. My sister lives a block away and texted me to ask if I'd heard an explosion too."

People on Twitter were equally nervous. "Heard a massive explosion from Sydney Harbour. What is going on?" one Tweet, reflective of many, said. "What the hell was that sound over Sydney?" said another. "Wtf was that? It sounded like an explosion right next to me.

Others wondered if it could have been a plane crash or, in the wake of Monday's attack in Manchester, an altogether more sinister event.

ABC News TV presenter Juanita Phillips even took to twitter to tell Sydney she'd driven down to the Harbour Bridge, "with the intention of helping the injured".

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Loud, house-shaking boom jolts residents in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts

Paul Tennant
Eagle-Tribune
Sat, 20 May 2017 18:39 UTC
Merrimack River in Haverhill, MA
© Flickr/DocEarls
A loud, crashing bang jolted the nerves of many Merrimack Valley residents late Thursday night.

The boom came at around 11 p.m., on the tail end of an intense thunder storm.

Mary Murphy, of Linwood Street, said the noise woke her out of a sound sleep. "It was very loud," she said. "I thought there had been a car accident." Some of her friends in New Hampshire heard the noise at that same time, she said.

Murphy teaches in Lynn and her colleagues also reported hearing the "really loud" bang, she said. "My house shook," Murphy said. One of her fellow teachers thought there had been a gas explosion, she added.

A couple of police dispatchers said they, too, heard the bang. "It rattled my house," said Emily Staton, who dispatches for the Groveland police. She lives close to the Bates Bridge in Haverhill.
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Strange banging noises heard throughout Abergavenny, Wales

Tim Butters
Abergavenny Chronicle
Thu, 11 May 2017 16:32 UTC
Meteor shower
© Abergavenny Chronicle
THINGS that go boom were heard throughout Abergavenny last weekend and as of yet there has been no official explanation as to what caused them.

The Chronicle has been inundated with queries as to the nature of the loud, fierce, and persistent. bangs were which left the town all shook up on the weekend.

As many natives were nursing the last vestiges of their hangovers and settling down to watch the Antique's Roadshow last Sunday evening, the town was collectively unnerved by the mother of all bangs.

One Abergavenny resident said, "It nearly gave me an heart attack it was that loud. A first I though it was shotgun blast or a firework, but it was way too loud for that. It sounded more like a tank going off. My husband said it was probably mini meteors colliding with the earth, but have you ever heard such nonsense?"

Actually we have. The meteor story is not as far-fetched as it sounds. When a massive meteor enter the atmosphere over a specific area it makes a very distinguishable noise. The scientific term for this is 'sonic boom'.
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South Carolina mystery booms may be legendary 'Seneca Guns'

Brett Tingley
Mysterious Universe
Tue, 09 May 2017 21:26 UTC
South Carolina coast
© mysteriousuniverse.com
Residents of Charleston, South Carolina and the surrounding towns of North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and West Ashley were all startled by an unexplained booming noise which shook windows and doors. The noise was reported on the morning of Friday, May 5th just after 8:30 a.m. While reports of the boom came in from all throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry, experts and law enforcement officials currently disagree about what the source of the sound might have been.

Minor earthquakes or other seismic activity were speculated to be the cause of the boom, but geophysicists reported little seismic activity in the area at the time. There are also armed forces bases nearby, and aircraft exercises were cited as the likely cause of a similar boom last year. However, military officials in the area claim that they weren't behind the noise.

That does not rule out any classified or undisclosed testing, however. The Air Force's secretive X-37B spacecraft landed in Florida over the weekend, causing a sonic boom upon reentry. Could there have been another secret landing we don't yet know about?
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