[mhalle]

I have a Birdweather puck (https://birdweather.com) that listens for birds in our backyard in suburban Boston. It also measures sound pressure level (30 second sample rate).

Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline.

We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at the time, said he "felt it in his chest".

Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

[csiegert]

> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state. Waiting for the mother ship to arrive.

[thombat]

Feels like a proper movie that political boundaries like state lines would be significant for all concerned. One meteor for Rhode Island, one for Texas... Any questions? (Asks the alien overlord of his minions in his crisp British accent)

[Sharlin]

The rest of the world, if they’re even mentioned in the plot, get one per country at most.

[beAbU]

Europe gets one, under the eiffel tower.

[loloquwowndueo]

“France is the size of Ohio why would they send more ships to France than to Cleveland”

[KakArvid]

Really good wine and cheese?

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

Not that interesting, apparently this scale of meteor happens on average multiple times a year, just not usually over such an urban area.

The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor (1) was larger and caused ground damage and injuries from e.g. flying glass from broken windows.

> Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state.

Based on the last Alien invasion book that I read (2), it would rather start with air bursting the bioweapons, spreading the plagues to weaken us. Which ah, also fits this incident.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution

[mrhottakes]

I think it's pretty interesting when something happens that rarely occurs in a populated area.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

It's interesting in the personal sense that I have read multiple news articles about it, and checked to see if people heard it (they did).

It's not interesting in the scientific sense of being an outlier, unusual and noteworthy. It isn't, it's a common enough occurrence.

[fatnoah]

I was in the Financial District in NYC when this happened in 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/mete...

I thought it was the firing of replica cannons or something similar in the Harbor, but was definitely loud enough that people took notice.

[xattt]

There was an identical event two weeks ago up the coast in Prince Edward Island. We didn’t get the NASA follow-up and treatment however.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PEI/comments/1tgzjie/loud_bang_4pm/

[gosub100]

Can you imagine, just by extrapolation, how many must hit the open ocean that are never seen nor heard?

[thrownthatway]

We could simply be moving through a less quiescent region of space, and this does represent a genuine up tick.

[Lord_Zero]

Okay that thing is cool. I made my own a while back with Pi 4 running https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi and I made my own fancy microphones with solder and a fuzzy cover. Worked amazingly well.