Did you see the closing window? Did you hear the slamming door?

[sovay]

The sonic boom heard across Massachusetts earlier this afternoon has been deemed the explosion of a bolide meteor east of Boston. Which is much more awesome than many other reasons for booms over New England and I can hope that not all the fragments fell into the sea. None of them appear to be in our back yard despite the air-concussing noise freaking out Hestia. Our neighborhood suffers so many flash-bangs to the cochlea, I mistook it for a byproduct of construction—I had earplugs in—rather than the cosmos coming home.

Comments

[jenett]

I am also glad it was something so cool (and hope they figure out more about it!)

I felt it and heard it (and I gathered from poking around that people as far as Rhode Island and New Hampshire did too. Massive pressure wave!)

[sovay]

I am also glad it was something so cool (and hope they figure out more about it!)

Agreed! People apparently did see the fireball. I'd been wondering because of the overcast.

I felt it and heard it (and I gathered from poking around that people as far as Rhode Island and New Hampshire did too. Massive pressure wave!)

My mother thought it sounded like a sonic boom from the days of the Concorde and she was right.

[asakiyume]

SO JEALOUS. It was not audible out here :-| (very very cool!)

[sovay]

SO JEALOUS. It was not audible out here :-| (very very cool!)

May you have a meteor of your own! Per CBS, there have been multiple fireballs this season.