Posted on 01/14/2020 7:54:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
Alvin, Texas— Down in Alvin, it's the talk of the town.
The loud boom heard Saturday night was unlike anything the Alvin residents had heard before. But the story gets a bit more bizarre. It wasn't just Alvin. The KHOU 11 newsroom was flooded with reports of the same loud boom all across the viewing area. ALVIN, Texas — Down in Alvin, it's the talk of the town. "It was like boom," said one Alvin resident. "We both jumped up and said what was that. It wasn't someone knocking on the door. Our whole house shook." The loud boom heard Saturday night was unlike anything the Alvin residents had heard before. But the story gets a bit more bizarre. It wasn't just Alvin. The KHOU 11 newsroom was flooded with reports of the same loud boom all across the viewing area.
"I still wonder what it was," said another Alvin resident.
KHOU 11 News reached out to the Pearland Police Department, League City Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Alvin police, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office, Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office and Brazoria County Sheriff's Office and no one has determined exactly what the boom was.
KHOU has also reached out to NASA for a possible explanation but has not heard back.
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They should contact ATC in the area, verify if military fighters were operating in the area.
It’s easy these days to go Mach without trying.
NASA wouldn’t know. . .don’t bother them, unless they had a T-38 up and around at the time.
Most commonly, this is caused by a meteor breaking the sound barrier.
My guess is you are correct. I lie next door to and AFB that flies out over the Gulf and we hear the low rumble all the time...
live
Mystery solved.
Another possibility is a small earthquake. If you happen to be very near the epicenter, even a tiny tremor can sound like a bomb detonating. Same thing happened to me many years ago in Southern California. I thought a bomb had been set off in the park across from my house. Turned out to be a tiny earthquake — something like 1.9 on the Richter Scale, but centered within a quarter mile or so.
Concur. Meteor that was breaking the sound barrier, most likely never impacted the ground.
But TX is a big area, they may find the impact crater.
When we lived in San Marino Calif. I remember a SONIC BOOM one time. It was VERY LOUD. Don’t remember the cause.
It was probably Nolan Ryan having a catch with a grandchild.
climate change of course.
So sad. But the “Other Oilers” The Titans won their game...
Ha ha ha Good One!
You beat me to the Nolan post.
If it was a meteor, especially with the proliferation of cameras everywhere, someone would have captured the flash at the least if not the fireball.
Someone get a bad burrito?
It was Nolan Ryan warming up
Sorry, it was me. I had breakfast at Taco Bell................
The Chelyabinsk meteor in Russia created a similar boom, but left a very visible meteor trail. Was there none, or did no one bother to look up?
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