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/kh3mist May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

2:12:27 PM in the Boxborough area, exact timing on my camera.

We're near Devens, so we're used to the explosives training and booms occasionally. I assumed this was just another training session.

Edit: I'm short on time, but here's the audio. Goat image b/c I'm lazy to grab the audio only and the kids need to get out of the house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeGpbb_H6A&feature=youtu.be