‘Very bizarre’ large explosion heard across multiple cities in Salt Lake Valley

KSL ^ | 001/22/2025 | MARY CULBERTSON

[BenLurkin]

brief video scroll down at link

[PAR35]

I was thinking sonic boom until I watched the video.That sounded like a shotgun blast.

[Track9]

Chines space junk.

[scott7278]

We’re getting frost quakes in Missouri...weird phenomenon. Loud booms to where you would think someone is hitting the house or firing a gun.

[Vaquero]

Small asteroid

[logi_cal869]

Bolide. Period.

...and news milking it for all it’s worth.

[dljordan]

We’ve been getting them here in Longmont, Co.

[C210N]

Probably just some DUMBs being destroyed

[DouglasKC]

Sound of liberal heads exploding as they heard about all the Trump actions.

[Major Matt Mason]

All You Can Eat night at Taco Grande.

[Celtic Conservative]

In the extreme cold up here we get a phenomenon that sounds like pistol shots. It’s the water in the tree trunks freezing and causing it to crack open suddenly. Very unnerving if you don’t know what it is.

CC

[GingisK]

Trees in Georgia will explode in the winter if the temperature drops quickly. It is caused by trapped water freezing in a confined space.

[cpdiii]

Bolide. Period. ...and news milking it for all it’s worth.

You are correct. Saw one up in North Dakota once. It was just like that and lite up the badlands for a fraction of a second.

[lee martell]

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[lurk]

Years ago they were using howitzers to shoot down avalanches at a ski resort above Salt Lake City. The shooters missed the mountain and the shell hit a house in a suburb on the other side of the hill.

Guessing this is a meteor.

[doc maverick]

Simultaneous EXPLOSIVE dIarrhea.
I’ve heard of that.
I imagine the roof blew off Taco Grande.

[VTenigma]

We’ve had them most of the week here, trees popping from sub-zero temps. Scaring the crap out of my dog.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

C.C. Happens a lot with birch and aspen trees. (See link!) I do not think you get a flash of light however. Meteorite maybe, or space junk.

Frost Cracks

[technically right]

5 pounds of tannerite.

[metmom]

Weird. I have never heard of that before.

And we’re no strangers to deep cold spells here in either NY or NH.

But then again, the trees that grow here that are native are probably more resistant to that sort of things.