Mysterious Booms are Back
Over the past six weeks, mysterious booming sounds have been heard across the United States and western Canada. Each event has brought a new set of explanations, all of them different, but the coincidence of so many different events in so short a time suggests a common explanation that is as yet unknown. Some have been accompanied by fireballs and have been attributed to incoming meteors a hundred feet or so in diameter generating sonic booms as they impacted the atmosphere. It is also true that, in March, two previously unknown asteroids made close approaches to Earth. Are we moving through a debris field in space? Unfortunately, there’s no way to tell.read more