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- qrushI’m around 8 miles west of Boston. I was playing on the floor with my daughter and had my ear to the ground- suddenly heard all of the windows shaking, the floor rumbled and an explosion louder than I’ve ever heard before.Honestly what spooked me the most was seeing nothing on the horizon to help explain it! I am shocked and grateful it didn’t break any windows or cause further damage.
- mhalleI have a Birdweather puck (https://birdweather.com) that listens for birds in our backyard in suburban Boston. It also measures sound pressure level (30 second sample rate).Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline.We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at the time, said he "felt it in his chest".Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.
- dtgriscomThe day was somewhat stormy. I was in my kitchen in my north-suburban-Boston house, when I suddenly heard a BOOM. I thought it was a very large branch falling on my house, so I ran outside to check out the roof. Saw nothing, and only later heard about the meteor.
- andaiReporter: "Now, a day later, we're learning more from NASA."NASA: "Yep, that's a rock!"
- dredmorbiusMentioned (in comments) several times a few days ago:<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354442><https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341582>
- qurren0.00006 times the speed of light. Damn.
- NooneAtAll3Saturday, May 30, 2026
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- deadeyeFrom the outer Cape it sounded like a long low rumble. I tought it was the wind making an unusual noise.
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0I didn't hear it in northern RI but all my friends heard it clearly. I feel left out
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- pithonI was at a beachhouse north of Boston and I thought someone fell out of bed or dropped something really heavy upstairs. It was loud and the whole house shook. All of us were scouring the internet for like an hour, finding absolutely nothing "official" or any mention of it on news sites- just tons of subreddits and other social media blowing up all over the Northeast wondering what the heck it was.
- threwrfaway"230 tons of TNT"I hate units of TNT. Ill do psi. Love the foot. The calorie is metric! But what on planet earth is "ton of TNT"?The energy that was dissipated (using 0.5 mv^2) was 1TJ, or the 280 000 kWh.
- DonHopkinsProbably just a UFO pickup gone bad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSY4fEEg4j0
- jojobasPSA: meteors have nothing to do with explosions. The shockwave comes from meteor's movement alone, the parts never move apart with any speed comparable to their common forward motion.A breakup will increase surface area and therefore kinetic energy to shockwave transfer efficiency, still not an explosion.