A mysterious boom jolted New Hampshire and at least one adjoining state on Sunday morning, rattling homes, spooking pets, and prompting several hundred amateur sleuths to go online to try to find out what possibly could have caused all the commotion.
According to DNYUZ, So far, the source of the boom has confounded residents, many of whom speculated that it might have been an earthquake. But an official at the National Earthquake Information Center, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, said that none of the agency’s stations had found any evidence of an earthquake in all of New England during the past seven days.
Some residents wondered if a meteorite or an aircraft might be behind the mystery, one that generated some complaints next door in Massachusetts. The NY Times reported that Dan Brian said that he was at home in New Boston, N.H., which is about 20 miles northwest of Nashua, N.H., sipping kombucha and playing a video game with his wife when he heard what he thought was a large explosion.
“There was a kind of a loud boom that rattled our whole house,” Mr. Brian said on Sunday. “It had like an audible boom to it. It was very strange. That’s why everyone thought it was like an explosion at first.” Mr. Brian, 38, a technical writer, said he feared that something was wrong with his roof and ran out to his driveway.
There was no damage to the home but the couple’s dogs were “just as confused,” he said. He said he immediately went online to search for answers. “No one’s owned up to anything,” he said. In home camera footage that Mr. Brian shared, a series of muffled thuds can be heard. “That was not good,” he says before stepping outside to inspect what happened, according to the footage.
