I was woken up around 4am last night to some very loud booming/roaring sounds that shook the whole house. My brother was woken up too and ran into my room to compare notes.
It apparently was heard throughout our area, as can be seen by all the comments here:
My brother looked out the window and saw a purple light above the clouds heading west. It's weird that people in the above thread saw weird lights too, and Worcester is about an hour west from us. It didn't act like lightning, possibly a fireball, but it sure was seen (or definitely heard) in a wide area of Massachusetts that doesn't seem to be in a straight line from each other. When I just woke up I thought it was thunder combined with some serious hail hitting the house, although I don't think it was hailing at all, so I can't really explain it.
Anyways just wanted to share, whatever it was, it was really weird, covered a large swath of eastern MA, and woke up a bunch of people all over the place! It was really really loud too - I don't remember the last time I was woken up by thunder. There also happened to be a thunderstorm, and normal sounding thunder about 20 minutes later was heard. But given all the data points, I'm not sure what explanation covers all of them.
It apparently was heard throughout our area, as can be seen by all the comments here:
My brother looked out the window and saw a purple light above the clouds heading west. It's weird that people in the above thread saw weird lights too, and Worcester is about an hour west from us. It didn't act like lightning, possibly a fireball, but it sure was seen (or definitely heard) in a wide area of Massachusetts that doesn't seem to be in a straight line from each other. When I just woke up I thought it was thunder combined with some serious hail hitting the house, although I don't think it was hailing at all, so I can't really explain it.
Anyways just wanted to share, whatever it was, it was really weird, covered a large swath of eastern MA, and woke up a bunch of people all over the place! It was really really loud too - I don't remember the last time I was woken up by thunder. There also happened to be a thunderstorm, and normal sounding thunder about 20 minutes later was heard. But given all the data points, I'm not sure what explanation covers all of them.