Mysterious sounds nicknamed ‘Bama Boom’ terrify people across the globe

New York: Media reports said mysterious booming sounds – nicknamed Bama Boom – have been recorded across the world. The sounds have been recorded from the Middle East to the East Midlands to Australia, with the several people hearing them on America’s eastern coast, said the reports.
These booming sounds have left people perplexed. People have been claiming these booms to be terrifying and have been nicknamed as Bama Boom.
According to a Daily Mail report, the terrifying boom has left experts mystified. A few suggested causes range from supersonic aircraft to meteors exploding in the atmosphere. According to the same portal, mysterious booms have been reported 64 times this year.
The latest boom was reported from the US state of Alabama and Idaho in the last week. “Loud boom heard: we do not see anything indicating large fire/smoke on radar or satellite; nothing on USGS indicating an earthquake,” the Birmingham National Weather Service said in a tweet.
While the cause remains unknown, suggested explanations include a sonic boom from an aircraft or a meteorite from the Leonid shower. But NASA has since cast scepticism on these explanations.
The loud boom could have been caused by a supersonic aircraft, a ground explosion, or a bolide – a large meteor that explodes in the atmosphere unrelated to the Leonid shower, Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, was quoted as saying to ABC 3340.
The noise, which was also picked up by the US Geological Survey, noted that the boom was not the result of an earthquake. The boom may have been caused by a military flight by a supersonic jet, they said, although the US Air Force is yet to confirm this.
The Bama Boom is just one of many mysterious booms heard worldwide this year. This is not the first time the mysterious sound has been heard. In 2017 alone, 64 booms have been heard worldwide, in locations including Michigan, Lapland, St Ives, Swansea and Yorkshire.
On October 10, a similar loud sound left Cairns locals confused. Many people suggested it was an FA-18 Hornet plane was heard flying, news.com.au reported. Two weeks later, another boom was heard over the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia at the same time a blue meteor passed across the sky.
“It just got bigger and bigger and it was just this big flash across the sky and there were sparks coming off it,” Port Lincoln local Lisa Watson was quoted by News Corp.
“I pulled up home and I heard two massive bangs, maybe a second apart, and then the sky lit up again. I just felt the whole earth shake twice,” he added.
According to Cooke, NASA’s meteor scientists will continue to analyse new data in hopes of determining the cause of the boom.