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People across Ohio valley report loud, mysterious boom

Fireball over CT, MI, OH and Ontario
© AMS Meteors/Adam F.
People from Hubbard to Girard to Austintown to Youngstown and even as far as Greenville, Pa. reported hearing and feeling a loud boom Friday morning.

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)

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.


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Bright meteor fireball over São Paulo, Brazil

meteor fireball over São Paulo
© YouTube/Bramon (screen capture)
A fireball was spotted crossing the sky in the interior of the state of São Paulo on the night of Tuesday, December 15th. The space rock entered the Earth's atmosphere at 9:35 PM BRT, when it was captured by the cameras of stations RCP3, RCP4 and CRP1, located in the cities of Nhandeara and Indiaporã, both in SP and by another 5 cameras of Clima ao Vivo in São Paulo and Paraná .


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Meteor fireball streaks over Minnesota

Observers map of event 7723-2020
© AMS (screen capture)Observers map of event 7723-2020
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 88 reports (event 7723-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over MI, MN and WI on Wednesday, December 16th 2020 around 12:48 UT.

One video was uploaded to the AMS website:


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Stunning meteor fireball over the Atlantic Ocean

Gulf of Cadiz meteor fireball
© YouTube/Meteors (screen capture)
This stunning fireball was spotted from Spain by the cameras operating in the framework of the SMART project on 14 December 2020, at 23:12 local time (equivalent to 22:12 universal time). The event overflew the Gulf of Cadiz (Atlantic Ocean). It was produced by a meteoroid belonging to the Geminid meteoroid stream. The bolide began at an altitude of about 100 km over the sea level, and ended at a height of around 51 km over the ocean.

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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Meteor fireball over Goiás, Brazil

Meteor fireball over Brazil
© YouTube/Bramon (screen capture)
Fireball over Goiás at dawn on December 10th.


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Bright meteor fireball captured over eastern France

Observers map for event 7648-2020
© AMS (screen capture)Observers map for event 7648-2020
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 115 reports (event 7648-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Baden-Württemberg, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Fribourg, Grand Est, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Piemonte, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rheinland-Pfalz and Vaud on Sunday, December 13th 2020 around 16:42 UT.

One video was uploaded (credit @flightlevel150) to the AMS website:


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Mysterious fireball spotted in skies over Morecambe, England explained by experts

A mysterious flaming rock in the sky has had people in Morecambe scratching their heads.

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:
Fireball over Morecambe, England
© Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds
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.

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Meteor fireball recorded blazing over Ontario, Canada

Observers map for event 7440-2020
© AMS (screen capture)Observers map for event 7440-2020
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 155 reports (event 7440-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, MI, NJ, NY, Ontario, PA, Québec, RI, VA and WV on Tuesday, December 8th 2020 around 00:31 UT.

For this event, AMS received one video.


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Mystery 'boom' heard over Bath, England in early morning hours

Bath City Centre
© Artur Lesniak/Bath Chronicle
Reports of a 'massive boom' in Bath have been circulating since the early hours of this morning.

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."

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Loud boom heard across central New York state apparently a meteoroid

Loud boom central New York
© 9 ABC News
Just after noon, many people across our region heard a loud boom and felt some shaking. People on social media are commenting that they heard the noise in Onondaga, Madison, and Oswego counties.

Here is a map of reported fireball sightings around the Northeast Wednesday afternoon.

According to the American Meteor Society, the sound heard across Central New York came at the same time witnesses reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky in other areas not under dense cloud cover.

"We currently have 41 reports of this fireball." Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told us. "It seems that central New York and northern Pennsylvania had cloudy skies and therefore did not see the fireball. If skies had been clear I'm certain that the trajectory would shift toward central NY, where the reports of sounds are numerous."


Comment: See also: Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontario