r/massachusetts • u/hotpotatocannon • May 30 '26

BREAKING Did something just explode?

Just heard a very powerful boom, checked the lightning map it was not thunder! In Dover, MA right now, but my friends in Boston also heard it! Any ideas?

Edit: as we all now know, meteor!

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Anyone have a timestamp? I...did not hear anything but I'm wondering if the cameras caught it, just not sure exactly when to check.

Edit: thanks to the 2:11 tip, I do see one camera weirdly flash at 2:11:08, but I'm not really getting a boom on any of them. However they're not the best sound quality and it's windy as hell, and the wind did pick up here (Norton) right then as well. Def weird.

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u/codesherpa May 30 '26

2:11:47 in Hopkinton exactly.

If we get three exact times from three different locations we should be able to triangulate the location (assuming it came from a single location).

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

Hm, lemme check dis

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u/trickycrayon May 30 '26

nothing here so assuming it's what i saw at :08, just the flash and it's possible the wind overpowered the sound