Reports of Loud Booms Puzzle Authorities: 65 This Year Alone

Approximate locations of loud boom reports in North America in 2017. Screenshot via Google My Maps

Mysterious loud booms are unnerving people around the world and puzzling authorities scrambling for explanations.

At least 65 such booms have been reported this year, according to a tally collected by the Daily Mail and updated by The Epoch Times.

Approximate locations of loud boom reports in 2017. Screenshot via Google My Maps

Several incidents have been explained by things like a jet breaking through the sound barrier (sonic boom) or an exploding asteroid. About 90 percent, however, lack an explanation.

One of the recent booms was reported on Nov. 20 at around 9 p.m. in Lochbuie, Colorado.

“[O]ur officers were notified of a suspicious sound, described as a ‘loud boom’ that shook multiple houses, coming from the northwest side of Lochbuie. At this time, the origin of the sound is unknown,” Lochbuie Police Department stated on Facebook.

Lochbuie sits just 7 miles north of Denver International Airport and less than 20 miles north of the Buckley Air Force Base. That would support the possibility that a sonic boom from a military jet caused the noise.

But Lochbuie Police Chief Tracey McCoy said he’s never heard a call like this in his six years with the department, KUSA reported.

A loud boom was also heard in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley in Idaho on Nov. 15 at around 11 p.m., The Lewiston Tribune reported.

The paper contacted Mountain Home Air Force Base in southern Idaho and Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, but neither reported aircraft in the area and didn’t know what caused the boom.

The paper tried the National Weather Service at Spokane but a spokesperson said no weather events that could have caused the noise were reported in the area.

Ammunition manufacturers in the area didn’t have any explosions at their facilities, local law enforcement reported.

Loud sounds coming from the sky with no apparent source have been dubbed “skyquakes” and they’re not limited to booms. Sometimes the sounds resemble the dramatic horn-like sound effects from sci-fi movies.

Regardless of their origin, many people found the sounds disturbing. All the more so because of their inexplicable nature.

A list of loud boom reports in 2017:

1. 1. November 20 - Colorado
   2. November 18 - Michigan
   3. November 19 - Damascus - explained as a result of airstrikes
   4. November 17 - Lapland - explained as an explosion of a meteor
   5. November 15 - Idaho
   6. November 14 - Alabama
   7. November 8 - Tennessee
   8. November 4 - Oregon
   9. November 3 - Minnesota
   10. November 1 and 2 - New Jersey and San Diego
   11. October 27 - Eyre Peninsula - explained as an explosion of a meteor
   12. October 25 - New Jersey
   13. October 20 - British Columbia
   14. October 17 - North Carolina
   15. October 10 - Detroit
   16. September 25 - St Ives
   17. September 22 - Temple Terrace, Florida
   18. September 17 - Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, and Massachusetts - explained as an explosion of a meteor
   19. September 7 - Moranbah, Australia
   20. May 30 - Tauranga, New Zealand
   21. May 26 - Kent
   22. May 24 - Texas
   23. May 19 - Massachusetts
   24. May 16-17 - Lincolnshire
   25. May 13 - Ontario - caused by earthquake
   26. May 12 - Tennessee
   27. May 11 - Abergavenny, Wales
   28. May 7 - Florida - explained as a result of a secret military mission
   29. April 25 - San Diego
   30. April 17 - Michigan
   31. April 15 - Michigan
   32. April 9 - Maine
   33. April 3 - Texas
   34. March - Vermont
   35. March 27 - Cornwall
   36. March 26 - Arizona
   37. March 25 - Gordonvale, Australia
   38. March 22 - Wisconsin
   39. March 13 - Virginia - caused by earthquake
   40. March 12 - New York
   41. March 11 - Kentucky
   42. March 5 - Montreal
   43. March 2 - Nottingham
   44. February 27 - Louisiana
   45. February 13 - Ohio
   46. February 12 - Indiana
   47. February 10 - Pennsylvania
   48. January 30 - New Orleans
   49. January 30 - Washington D.C
   50. January 29 - Maryland
   51. January 24 - San Diego
   52. January 20 - Swansea
   53. January 19 - New Orleans
   54. January 18 - North Carolina
   55. January 17 - Canterbury
   56. January 16 - Beddgelert, Wales
   57. January 16 - Greater Manchester
   58. January 13 - Marseilles
   59. January 12 - North Yorkshire
   60. January 6 - Louisiana
   61. January 6 - Oregon
   62. January 5 - Liverpool
   63. January 4 - Missouri
   64. January 4 - Washington
   65. January 3 - Connecticut

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