Experts cannot figure out the origin of a mysterious loud boom that was heard throughout ArkLaTex Monday.
"Callers described walls shaking and windows rattling. While there were no reports of significant damage, some said the reverberation shifted or even knocked items off of shelves," KSLA reports.
The unknown source of the boom created a debris field, as National Weather Service (NWS) Senior Forecaster Marty Mayeaux told KSLA. That mysterious source already left the debris field and was never identified.
Authorities are going through a list of possible places where the boom could have originated, but so far they are out of luck.
On Tuesday, the day after the boom, DeSoto Parish Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle tells KSLA that they checked local oil and gas operations, which did not appear to have exploded.
There was a storm the night of the boom, but WLOX Meteorologist Jeff Castle says that any source of thunder would have been too far away to cause the noise. The United States Geologic Survey says there was no evidence of seismic activity Monday night.
The only source left to investigate is a possible meteor explosion.
"IF it was a large meteoroid fragmentation a LOUD BOOM would result. IF media witness reports are correct, and IF this event was meteor related, the detonation occurred near Greenwood, LA and Waskom, LA areas at 18-25 miles above the Earth," astronomers at Lunar Meteorite Hunters tell Inquisitr.
The mystery of the loud boom continues...
