Callers report flashing lights, loud 'boom'

Daily Press ^ | March 30 2009 | Mike Holtzclaw

[Jonah Hex]

I'm in Newport News. My son saw it last night and rushed inside to ask me about it. He didn't report any sounds, but he did say it was orange in hue trailing sparks, heading from southwest to northeast, and appeared to move towards the local horizon.

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.

[CPOSharky]

Afterburner > sonic boom.

[Perdogg]

It was 0bama’s NCAA basketball bracket.

[Arrowhead1952]

It must be those Amish practicing surface to air missiles again.

Nah. It was the delayed sonic booms from the space shuttle returning from the ISS.

[silverleaf]

similar reports more local happened before

http://wjz.com/local/baltimore.county.mystery.2.710503.html

[rintense]

The Cylons have finally had enough of us.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Locally we call the flashes “lightning” and the loud booming noise “thunder”.

[Old Grumpy]

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.

[John W]

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.”

[John W]

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.

[DouglasKC]

If there was something bad in the known future, certain powers in the world might cause a lot of its economy to “disappear” as they cached for their own survival, and leave the govts to spend money like “there was no tomorrow!”

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?

[John W]

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

[Humal]

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.

[roses of sharon]

Thanks for posting that link.

Sounds like a meteor?

Keep us informed, ok?

Thanks!

[DYngbld]

To burn that long I would think it would have to be a big piece.

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.

[Trailerpark Badass]

In all seriesness, yesterday afternoon was clear but very windy in the Raleigh area. Doing yard work, I kept hearing what sounded like rolling thunder.

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.

[Betis70]

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.

[SlowBoat407]

Project Xylophone has gotten out of control.

[BenLurkin]

[Carling]

There is a third possiblity as well.