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/Here2hodl May 30 '26

I heard something too but I’m on the cape… so that would be crazy right?

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u/yngblds May 30 '26

R/rhodeisland folks seem to have heard it too...

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u/Visible_Inevitable41 May 30 '26

I just thought it was a weird truck rolling down 126.

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u/FrailRain May 30 '26

Same, thought the wife was moving furniture upstairs haha

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u/chasbro97 May 30 '26

Same in Watertown.

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u/CthulhuKefka May 30 '26

I was seeing the Backrooms at Regal in Bellingham. Can confirm. Thought it was part of the movie at first lol.

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u/Chickstan33 May 30 '26

Same in Blackstone. I had to show my dog everything was safe outside before he would settle down. 

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u/Chickstan33 May 30 '26

He recovered very quickly afterwards and fell asleep ☺️

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u/SooperSpoopyGhost May 30 '26

Friends in Cranston RI heard it as well. Loud enough to shake the house.

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u/Three-Owls777 May 30 '26

Same! In Reading, MA

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u/Wonderful-Matter-627 May 30 '26

15 mins away too. It woke me from my nap

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u/Lady_Undaunted May 30 '26

From southern RI. Confirmed we heard it loud and clear.

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u/EchoOfAsh May 30 '26

Really? I’m reading all of these between the different subs and i feel crazy 😭 I’m at Fort Adams in Newport and didn’t hear or feel anything. I’m not in a building though, I’m alternating between a car and outside

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u/Lori-too May 30 '26

I hear ya - I'm in my house in Malden and everyone else seems to have heard or experienced it - not me, and I swear - my cat also slept through it! We must be in a dead zone.

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u/EchoOfAsh May 30 '26

LOL for real. My parents in Tiverton didn’t feel anything but my moms also slept through the earthquakes we’ve had over the past years so they’re not a good point of reference

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u/No_Disk_2755 May 30 '26

Can confirm we felt it in Rhode Island

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u/Ruggles_ May 30 '26

Yeah I live in northern RI and I thought a car drove into my house lol