Posted on 03/20/2009 1:34:30 PM PDT by TaraP
Aiken, Richmond and Columbia counties.
Local law enforcement agencies also report hearing the boom, but no one knows what caused it.
Chris Turner, and Aiken County resident, told WJBF News Channel 6’s Sheena Bodie what he saw and heard, in a phone interview. We have also been informed that two Aiken County Sheriff’s Office deputies reportedly saw a fireball in the sky.
An Aiken County resident describes to WJBF that he saw a fireball in the sky, after a loud boom was heard all over the CSRA around 3:00 a.m., Friday morning. Dr. Gary Senn, the director of the DuPont Planetarium at USC-Aiken stopped by our noon Newscast and spoke with our Mary Morrison about the possible causes. You can also let us know what you heard or saw.
According to the Director of the DuPont Planetarium at USC-Aiken, Gary Senn, the cause of the boom could have possibly been a meteor. Stay tuned to WJBF Newschannel 6 and WJBF.com for more on this developing story.
Let us know below by leaving a comment to let us know what you saw or heard. You can also report meteor/fireball sightings to the American Meteor Society’s website.
Alderaan?
What is a CSRA?
What mystery is there in a meteor?
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Then there was the lady in the pool...
Tune up music? ;)
I grew up close to Wright Patterson AFB and that was almost a daily thing in the 50’s.
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Very interesting. When I first read this I thought about the booms I heard yesterday in southern Maryland and the earth shaking.
It was a very low frequency bass sound followed by earth tremors. They happened several times, I thought they were earth quakes.
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This is an interesting thread. In the middle of the night last night I thought I felt a long, low rumble. I’ve been checking the news and Internet all day to see whether we had an earthquake here in Ohio, but I haven’t seen anything yet about it. Could have been my imagination, I suppose, but this thread makes me wonder. But I didn’t hear a boom.
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NASA has completed a delicate set of flight tests to measure how modifications to an F-15 jet can affect the way shock waves form. The results could help turn sonic booms into distant rumbles.
The measurements will be used to calibrate a computer model of shock wave propagation which will be a crucial aid for engineers designing a new generation of quieter supersonic aircraft. “We’re pretty close to being able to control sonic booms,” says Peter Coen of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, principal investigator for the agency’s supersonic research programme.
—New Scientist
So you’ve seen ‘em too?
Hmmm, there was a volcano eruption over toward Australia (Tonga, I think). Sound travles through the earth and eventually is emitted on the otherside of the earth. And you say you heard low frequency rumblings and minor tremors? Sounds about right
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signs in the heavens times?
Thanks.
Interesting.
Wonder what it could be . . .
Charleston, SC had these booms one summer in the early 1980s, and again a couple of years ago. Here is one possibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_of_the_Seneca
So that would be ....Texas?......Virginia? The station call letters begin with "W", so it can't be West Coast.....
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