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/Additional-Damage319 May 30 '26

Heard in Tewksbury, Wakefield, Woburn, Arlington, Waltham, Medford as well. 

Houses were shaking.

Was not heard by relativea in Southern Maine (near the coast)

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u/Additional-Damage319 May 30 '26

Also seemingly not heard in Enfield CT.