Fireballs
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.
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)
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.
One video was uploaded (credit @flightlevel150) to the AMS website:
What appeared to be a "big rock on fire" was seen over the town at around 8.15am on Monday (December 7).
Two 11-year-old boys, Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds, saw the strange object while walking to school and managed to take a picture of it:
Jay's mum, Beth, said: "My son and his friend Thomas saw what the described as a big rock on fire in the sky this morning on their way to school and Thomas got this picture of it. Did anyone else see it around 8.15am?"
She added that the boys said that it disappeared from view after a few moments.
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."
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.