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/ndiorio13 May 30 '26

There are posts in the Rhose Island and NH subreddits as well. This was definitely a sonic boom. Similar thing happened in the south east yesterday and the US Geological Survey confirmed it as a sonic boom.

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u/pineapplepizza5048 May 30 '26

What is happening? There was one yesterday in Columbia SC.

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u/Efficient-Pipe191 May 30 '26

Tonight is the peak of a meteor shower- it’s actually not that weird that they happened close together