Had a very frightening thing happen about 1AM:
I was awake reading, quiet and BOOM! Was nothing like a house explosion, no concussions like an after affect,
certainly not like fireworks, thought maybe an airplane exploded, it was a rapid BOOM! First thought of course was a detonation of some sort. It was not close, but not all that far. It shook our 2 flat Writer! Did anyone in your house feel it?!
My son came out of his room and said also it was just a big boom, off towards Milw Av (East)
My daughter came out of her room and said it sounded like the house fell over!
I called someone working nights to get scanner info, NADA!
No engines and the Milw Av firehouse uses our street ALL the time! No police! About 4am there was a chopper but couldn't see it. I cannot phantom what it was?!
Could have been a concussion grenade or FlashBang device used by cops in taking down a suspect. Judicial meanz might be able to give some more possibilities and perspectives.
Call the police or fire department and ask them.
Weird, sounds like what happened to me a few months ago.
- - - - - - - Fiery meteor streaks across predawn Monday sky here Published August 17, 2004 They're called bolides--flaming meteors that race across the sky at tremendous speed and explode. They aren't terribly common. Yet, such a meteor caught the attention of many around 1 a.m. Monday as it streaked above the Chicago area, initiating a sonic boom. The bolide was observed by an air traffic controller at O'Hare and by the pilots of incoming aircraft, according to FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. Ground-based observers called police in Park Ridge, Norridge and Chicago to report the event. Area astronomers suggested the fiery meteor may have been part of the annual Perseids display, which peaked a week ago. But, it may also have been a piece of earthbound space junk or a "sporadic"--a single isolated meteor--added astronomer Dan Joyce, who says bolides can travel at speeds up to 150,000 m.p.h. 50-60 miles above earth, but slow and heat up as they enter the denser lower atmosphere.