Posted on 03/30/2009 4:33:57 AM PDT by DYngbld
Meteorolgists are investigating and trying to explain widespread reports on the Eastern Seaboard of flashing lights and a noise that sounded like a loud explosion in the sky last night. A spokesman for Virginia Beach police said the city's emergency call center received dozens of calls shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday reporting "a loud explosion, like a 'boom,' that rattled their windows." He said several of the callers also described a bright flash of light accompanying the sound. The National Weather Service received similar reports along the East Coast along the Eastern Shore and into Maryland around the same time. There have been no reports of damage, and meteorologists from the National Weather Service office in Wakefield said there was no immediate explanation for the reports.
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I didn't see it myself but, based on his report, I would tend to think this was a fireball i.e. a brighter than usual meteor.
Afterburner > sonic boom.
It was 0bama’s NCAA basketball bracket.
Nah. It was the delayed sonic booms from the space shuttle returning from the ISS.
similar reports more local happened before
http://wjz.com/local/baltimore.county.mystery.2.710503.html
The Cylons have finally had enough of us.
Locally we call the flashes “lightning” and the loud booming noise “thunder”.
I heard a double boom Saturday and wondered what it was, before I realized it was the shuttle coming in to land at the Kennedy Space Center.
Rich Curry, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s office in Wakefield, said reports from last night have been reviewed and showed “nothing meteorological we can find that would explain this.”
Was this around the time we learned the President of the United States had fired the CEO of General Motors? Maybe someone is trying to tell us something.
Exactly. It's not that difficult to shoehorn what's been happening with the world economy into this scenario. Maybe nutty BUT...
hmmm. Wonder if anyone has physically inventoried the world’s govt-held gold lately.
Wasn't there just a story about Fort Knox and how nobody is really sure IF there really is any gold left in there?
WAVY.com Emails about the mystery in the sky
Updated: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 9:31 AM EDT
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_wavy_emails_about_the_mystery_in_the_sky_20090330
If the strange lights and sounds have been going on for “months”, as the article says, no, it probably wouldn’t be from the satellite.
Sounds like a meteor?
Keep us informed, ok?
Thanks!
I heard nothing or saw nothing last night, The Direct TV reception was disrupted a bit around that time, but nothing out of the ordinary. I am leaning toward a meteor from the reports I have read it sound like it might have been. It may have been large enough to produce a "sonic boom" that could be heard for some distance.
This morning around 3:30 AM, I was lying in bed after having woken and having trouble getting back to sleep, when I heard this prolonged low-frequency rumbling outside. There was no weather in the area.
It was pretty weird.
LOL, I heard this, saw the flash and thought “cool, thunder is starting early this year”.
It did rattle the house more than a normal thunderclap, but was still pretty thunder-like.
Project Xylophone has gotten out of control.
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