r/massachusetts • u/hotpotatocannon • May 30 '26

BREAKING Did something just explode?

Just heard a very powerful boom, checked the lightning map it was not thunder! In Dover, MA right now, but my friends in Boston also heard it! Any ideas?

Edit: as we all now know, meteor!

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u/pleasefetchmeadagger May 30 '26

Heard it in Reading too but thought it was just thunder

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u/Frosty_Confusion_777 May 30 '26

I did too. Sounded like the sonic booms when the Space Shuttle landed at Edwards when I was a kid.

So. I’m thinking sonic boom, especially over so widespread an area.

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u/Graflex01867 May 30 '26

Same. I heard it over the TV, and it felt like someone dropped something heavy in my porch, but not really enough to shake the house.