I heard some louds booms a couple nights ago and went outside to investigate. The horizon seemed unusually orange, but cloud cover was very low. I heard noises tonight but did not give them much thought. I suspect Obama is trying to fluoridate our water to turn us Commie.

I didn't hear anything in the City of Alcoa. Being asleep might have been the reason.

From the description it sounds like an earthquake. No earthquakes reported on the USGS site, but I don't know how long it usually takes to update...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

Thinking about going to Maryville this morning... is the town still there, or am I heading toward a smoldering crater?

I'm about 2 miles west of Maryville. The whole house shook, and there was a large boom. My girlfriend thought a bus had hit the house. Went outside and my neighbors were in the street. Some guy about 2 blocks down the road yelled out something about it.

In the neighborhood behind MHS. My whole house shook but only for a brief time, about 2 seconds. I thought it was something in my basement, until I see all the neighbors outside.

The Mrs. just talked to the Maryville PD. They said every call they have received this AM has been about that boom! They have no idea what it was either, but they are investigating...

There is a fault on Chilhowee Mountain. About 35 years ago, we had a fairly significant quake resulting from it.

But this sounds like a sonic boom?

P.S. I'm hoping that the GOP head explosion theory winds up the winner!

The loud boom was the stimulus bill kicking in...All is well.

Could it have been thunder?
Strange that the entire neighborhood was up though.

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There was a flight of military fighter jets in the area yesterday afternoon. If they were working out of McGhee-Tyson then you would definitely have heard a sonic boom if one or two of them decided to put the gas down.

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Could be, but the pilot would probably get written up. I believe FAA and military regulations prohibit peacetime supersonic flight over almost all of the U.S. except in places like Area 51.

P.S. We used to hear them all the time when I was a kid back before prohibitions. They'd scare the bejeepers out of you. More recently we heard them all over Central Florida every time the Shuttle landed in Florida. It had a very distinctive double-boom, a quieter one followed almost instantly by a very LARGE boom as I recall.

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It was the stock market.

I guarantee that sonic booms happen that never get written up. But if someone were to call certain offices and ask...Well, the truth has a way of coming out. This sounds like a sonic boom, not an earthquake.

A couple of days ago I heard something that sounded like thunder but the sun was shining. Maybe its was Smart Fix.

Stephen McLamb has been running around Blount County trying to figure it out. He'll have a report (with 911 audio) coming up during our 5:30/6p.m. newscast.

Daily Times also stumped:

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20090220/BREAKING/902209986

There were mysterious explosions on the MC campus and in Louisville.

I live at Broadway Towers in downtown and I have heard some strange loud sounds too.

I live just south of the gene synder at preston hwy in louisville, ky, it sounds like tanks firing. The whole house shakes with every one. They are really loud boom sounds. Its thursday @ 3:15 or so. I have heard at least 10 of them over about a 15-20 min time period.

I grew up int the tidewater area and there was a very large boom about 12 years ago. It shook the house so bad all the photos fell of the walls facing one side of the house only. Very strange. It was later reported to be a sonic boom. The Military will fly jets overhead and if they hit the gas too fast at a certain altitude it will really rock the homes for miles. It is not allowed and the pilot could get in a world of trouble. It can cause accidents, broken property etc. Probably the same thing. It has only happened twice in my life while living there that I know of. it is freaky and loud! You would swear the world is coming down on you for that split second. But everyone was talking about it for days saying it was an earthquake or explosion or thunder or experiment at the Naval base or air force base. None were true. Just a sonic Boom.

Apparently the same thing happened up in VA over the weekend and it was apparently the breaking apart of a russian space vehicle and was seen and felt from Maryland to North Carolina.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090330/sc_space/mysteriouseastcoastboomw...

i heard a boom about an hour ago around 12:45am in the tidewater hampton roads area.

the lights flickered just before the boom however

"Mysterious Booms" are by-products of military Scalar events. Russia is the most advanced country with Tesla, Scalar technology weapon systems application since early 1960s. The old KGB, now the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) controls their systems. Several applications are employed against North America including weather manipulation/control and manufactured earthquakes. There are other applications. Challenger, Columbia and Thresher submarine were Scalar military hits. Ten nations have Scalar weapon systems including Israel and United States. William Cohen, Secretary of Defense, talked (1997) on public record about Scalar weapons. Scalar is more lethal than nuclear. http://worldnews2005.tripod.com/id4.html

Russian sonar and Soviet manufactured earthquakes aside, a lot of loud booms around here are explained by the game cannon at Neyland Stadium. If not during a game, then in practice for a game.

I'm just sayin', if there was ever a better name for a girl band than the Mysterious Booms, I'd like to hear it.

I am sorry to hear that the boom that shook my house last night was because of a house explosion in Whittington Creek.  I thought a tree had fallen on my deck, and I live at least four miles from that neighborhood.

How terrifying and sad for the family involved and for the neighbors!