That Loud "Boom" in the Poconos Last Night...Was it Really

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Thread: What is this new thing in front of the sun we’ve been seeing from space in recent days, this big black triangle?...

Truth is stranger than fiction.

There's really a "Poconos"?

if you mean the one of recent weeks ago, just a normal coronal hole and nothing more.

someone closed the door a bit loudly

I live in NE Pa. I heard/felt it too, brought me right outside to have a look around. At 11:00 pm, first thing on the news was how people were calling in from all over the place to report their houses rattling. The weather guy explained it off as thunder. I wouldn't have been too sure but then I saw on spaceweather.com (3-31-12)that "sprites" were spotted over Oaklahoma and I thought, maybe thats what we had here.

Sprites are lightening bolts that travel skyward (rather than earthward) fromt he tops of big storm clouds. They can go up as far as 9 kilometers whcih qualifies them as space-weather. So I figured that these bolts are bigger than cloud to ground bolts and probably have a sonic-type boom to them. The weird thing though, is there are usually never seen this early in the spring. Generally seen in the summer when its much warmer.

Here is a collection of interesting comments made by residents of the Poconos region of Pennsylvania that are part of a news article printed in the Pocono Record that is entitled, Weird weather 'boom' has residents talking (dated April 1, 2012):

"The shaking (Friday) night lasted unusually long. Didn't sound like thunder, didn't feel like thunder, was wondering if something happened on 380/80; tanker accident," wrote Gilda Spiotta of Long Pond.

Another Long Pond resident, Lorene R. Allman-Mars, wrote: "My son was at the back door letting the dogs out and he reported that he saw a large flash of light fill the sky toward/above the FedEx distribution site on 940, then he heard a loud boom. It didn't look like lightning, it looked like a bomb blew up in the air. I was on the second floor of the house; I didn't see anything but I heard the boom and felt it shake the house. The floors shook; I have never felt lightning shake the house like that before and we've been up here 20 years!"

Some readers suggested an earthquake or an explosion, but said that definitely was no routine thunder.

Russo Albuja of Tobyhanna said,"I was driving along 196 on my way home from work when I felt the BOOM. It was so extreme, my car shook and on my left hand side on an empty field - all I saw was this HUGE flash of light coming from where the airport location would be at."

Jill Nobles: "It sure felt like an explosion or an earthquake to me. I am up near Wooddale, by Analomink on the top of the mountain. At 10:12-ish, my whole house shook. It knocked things off of the counters, rattled things hanging on my walls, and shook my whole house violently. The sound was like an explosion, or a freight train in my bedroom."

Phillip Mangat: "Yeah around 10:35 I thought another meth lab went boom!!!"

[link to www.poconorecord.com]

Yeah heard it too. Thought it was thunder at first, as it was raining slightly. But a single loud thunderbolt on a cold night? Somethings not adding up.

I'm near NYC Metro area and was outside having a cigarette between 11 - 11:15 PM.... Was looking down at my phone when there was a flash and a long rumble. The rumble was changing frequency over short durations and what was weird was that it was coming from one direction of the sky for several seconds then abruptly sounded like it shifted localization in the sky... Definitely a weird rumble.

Oh and I forgot to add..... THUNDER DOOM!

Hmm these loud booms seem to be occurring in a lot of places. Wonder what it could be?

Bump, 5* and pin req'd. Would like to see how many may have heard this boom.

It's spreading across America.

Thread: Just on the morning news: BOOMS BACK in Clintonville, WI!!!!

That shit is old news. This is about the Poconos and obviously up/down the Appalachian Mountain range.

By plugging threads like that, some may dismiss this (if they're stupid, clumping them together), thus, it loses its chance at exposure, pinning, etc.

Old news, from two days ago? What a dumbass.

Not only are you not right, your not even wrong.

Yes, because the Clintonville, WI booms started just two days ago.

it was lightning and thunder. people need to get a grip.

If there's a really loud boom, and a strange smell after... I pulled God's finger. He really doesn't get out much.

if it was in the 30s then it could have been thundersnow. much louder and longer in duration than normal thunder.

thunder is louder in a snowstorm because cold, dense air is a much better conduit of sound

Something is definitely under pressure(under the crust).

The Earth is rising???

What is trying to come out???

OP, we get them here in Mass too but haven't had one in about a month now. Makes me jump when one happens and it's not thunder..sounds like a bomb went off somewhere and then the house shakes.

Meteor?

we get them alot here in southern nm and the news always says they are sonice booms from jets at holloman afb....however these booms are different they are like explosions, and windows rattle etc......they are not sonice booms in my opinion because they feel more like they are coming from underground like a gas line explosion

does that sound like what you guys are feeling.....

Last Edited by zephyr on 04/01/2012 12:16 PM

I live in So East ennsylvania and i heard it too

didn't realize it until reading this thread .... we were watching the glass toilet and I thought i heard thunder

so didn't really think about it!!

From NE Pa too and I and the misses heard it. Although probably thunder it was unusual in its sound and long duration. It was enough for the wife to say it didn't sound like thunder and for me to step outside to listen. On radar there was rain coming in from the West so I dismissed it, but yes it seemed to go on and on at a low rumble.

Sometimes I wonder if this isnt "programming" being done by the lite to make their false alien invasion more believable.

I'm north of Scranton and we heard it also!! At first I thought it was a low flying plane then thunder....but...husband said that wasn't like any noise we heard before!!!

Swamp gas or a weather balloon.

WTF is "watching the glass toilet" about?