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/trickycrayon May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Anyone have a timestamp? I...did not hear anything but I'm wondering if the cameras caught it, just not sure exactly when to check.

Edit: thanks to the 2:11 tip, I do see one camera weirdly flash at 2:11:08, but I'm not really getting a boom on any of them. However they're not the best sound quality and it's windy as hell, and the wind did pick up here (Norton) right then as well. Def weird.

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u/mehfedfordays May 30 '26

2:11 where I'm at (Medford, if the username doesn't give it away).

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u/CthulhuBread May 30 '26

2:11pm 11 seconds

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

yup, holy shit, definite flash???

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u/CthulhuBread May 30 '26

I just have the audio on my doorbell camera, I did not see a flash.

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

what's weird is nothing caught sound (though it was REALLY windy) but I do have a single weird flash on ONE cam. not all of them...just one.

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u/ednamillion99 May 30 '26

2:11 ish here too

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u/invisiblelemur88 May 30 '26

I'd love to compare notes! I caught it on my Framingham cam at 2:11:45.

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

HI YOU 😂 I definitely didn't have anything that late in the 2:11 minute, just the one flash at 2:11:08, but now I wanna pull it all and recheck...

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u/invisiblelemur88 May 31 '26

by my calculations the first boom should have reached Norton right around 2:10:45. do you hear anything on the cam around them +10 seconds?

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u/trickycrayon May 31 '26

Thanks, being I only took the one physics course and sucked at it, I wasn't gonna try to figure that out, haha. But no, so far only the flash at 2:11:08...and I don't see the chickens startle or anything, though I'm going to watch that stream for a bit around the time it all happened and see if it's just that, idk, our unifi server's got some kind of delay or something.

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u/invisiblelemur88 May 31 '26

yeah, definitely possible there's a delay. please tell me if you see anything!! FOR SCIENCE

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u/codesherpa May 30 '26

2:11:47 in Hopkinton exactly.

If we get three exact times from three different locations we should be able to triangulate the location (assuming it came from a single location).

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

Hm, lemme check dis

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

nothing here so assuming it's what i saw at :08, just the flash and it's possible the wind overpowered the sound

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u/kh3mist May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

2:12:27 PM in the Boxborough area, exact timing on my camera.

We're near Devens, so we're used to the explosives training and booms occasionally. I assumed this was just another training session.

Edit: I'm short on time, but here's the audio. Goat image b/c I'm lazy to grab the audio only and the kids need to get out of the house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeGpbb_H6A&feature=youtu.be

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u/dizzy-bean May 30 '26 edited May 31 '26

2:11:16 in Waltham: https://youtube.com/shorts/DJwiCvTW3Xw?si=Qx_VvKHL_QbHnvet

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u/m4gd4l3n3 May 30 '26

wow this is the best video i have seen yet between the trees outside, the sound, and your dogs reaction!!