A massive boom was heard and felt over much of the Ozarks shortly after noon (local time) on June 6, 2018. The National Weather Service said their working theory is a meteor exploding high in the atmosphere. “I felt the ground shake and wondered what in the world?” said Willow Springs resident Lloyd Ebert, adding he saw a contrail near the edge of a cloud ‘that looked like smoke all around it.’
Mike Griffin, a meteorologist at the NWS Springfield office said they got a call from the Little Rock office that they were getting many reports from the Mountain Home area about a very loud, shaking boom. “We talked to the Howell County dispatch center and they were taking a tremendous amount of calls.” “I checked with the USGS and they had nothing registered as an earthquake, so that can be ruled out,” Griffin said, as reported by Springfield News-Leader. “It was a fairly loud boom, a fairly good concussion,” said Steve Gleghorn, administrator of Howell County 911, who was outside when the boom happened. READ MORE
