This past weekend, a tremendous boom could be heard by a large number of people in Utah. Some people felt it was a sonic boom caused by military aircraft, while others thought it may be an indication that they were being attacked.
The explosion was so powerful that it caused the walls of homes to shake. It caused the automobile alarms to go off. Home surveillance cameras picked up the event and recorded it.
The noise was heard early on Saturday morning, but the locals were not given any type of advance warning.
The Governor of the state, Spencer Cox, made it clear very soon on Twitter that it had nothing to do with any of the military stations that are located in the state. The possibility of it being an earthquake or any other kind of seismic activity has also been eliminated by the research done by scientists.
An announcement was made on Twitter by the University of Utah Seismograph Station, which stated, We've gotten multiple reports of folks feeling or hearing a 'boom' at 8:32 in the morning. We can affirm that it was not an earthquake.
Exactly what was it, then?
According to the National Weather Service, the most widely accepted hypothesis is that a meteor was the root of the problem.
If you are a fan of Superman, you might even want to go out there to check what kind of debris a meteor of that magnitude could have dropped. Perhaps some kryptonite?
A lightning flash or meteor trail was picked up by satellites that are responsible for detecting lightning above Morgan and Davis counties, which are located in the northern portion of the state.
They were able to determine that it was a meteor thanks to the video confirmation provided by the National Weather Service. They witnessed a fireball that was bluish in color moving quickly across the sky before it vanished behind some clouds.
Even some areas in southern Idaho were able to pick up the sound of the explosion.
In most cases, meteors disintegrate once they enter the atmosphere. If there is anything that doesn't shatter or burn up, the bits are typically so minute that they don't make any noise when they fall apart. It is quite evident that this was not the situation with respect to the asteroid. Many researchers in the field of science believe that it was roughly the size of a volleyball.
During an interview with KSL TV, Patrick Wiggins, the NASA Ambassador for the state of Utah, stated that everything in his experience and his intuition leads to it being a meteor. As a direct consequence of it, there may even be some pebbles strewn about the state of Utah.
Were there only rocks that fell from the sky? Probably. It is quite improbable that the infant Kal-el will be discovered amid the rocks. We are not even close to dealing with an alien invasion at this point.
Conspiracy theories are spreading like wildfire throughout social media platforms. A few folks are leaning toward the theory that it's extraterrestrials. Some individuals are of the opinion that it was a military assault, but our administration does not wish to discuss it.
When an object travels at a speed that is greater than the speed of sound, this results in the creation of a sonic boom. There is no doubt that the noise you heard was caused by a massive space rock about the size of a volleyball that was freefalling into our atmosphere.
Check the footage from your doorbell camera if you were in the states of Utah or Idaho at the time this occurrence occurred. It's possible that you were one of the hundreds of people who managed to snap a picture of the hazy blue object flying through the air. If it weren't for it, you might have been able to hear the sound.
In all honesty, you shouldn't be too concerned about it. It turned out to be only a meteor. It's obvious that people get anxious over the little things, therefore we should count our blessings that it wasn't something else.
There is no way to know for certain whether or if there will be other meteors.
The preceding is a summary of an article that originally appeared on American Retirement Insider.
