{"id":13184,"date":"2013-11-27T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13184"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:59:48","slug":"flash-boom-over-nny-canada-what-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/11\/27\/flash-boom-over-nny-canada-what-was-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash, boom over NNY, Canada! What was it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The nighttime sky over northern New York, winter 2012. Last night’s flash and boom illuminated the sky and left many wondering about their nature, including one speculation about Superman. Photo: John Stanford<\/p><\/div>\n

Social and conventional media reports from a broad area suggest something – perhaps a meteorite? – made itself known just before 8 pm Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Judging from initial feedback, this may have been most noticeable in the Montreal area. “What was that mysterious boom?”<\/a> asked the Montreal Gazette:<\/p>\n

Although there is no official conformation of a meteorite, a spokesman for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada says all signs point to a meteor event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard of reports south of Ottawa, through Cornwall, the Montreal area, folks down in northern New York state as well, said Andrew Fazekas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really just observations from regular everyday folks that they heard a sonic boom that was preceded by a blue flash of light high in the sky that lasted maybe one or two seconds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TV station WPTZ reports fielding calls from viewers in their\u00a0Plattsburgh\/Burlington<\/a> area wondering what they’d heard too. The comment field for that report says most thought it was thunder.<\/p>\n

Social media comments from Montreal leaned more decidedly in favor of meteorite<\/a>. Tweets quoted by CBC<\/a> include this news flash from Paul Therrien<\/a>: “Baby Superman landed in the West Island. We must find him!”<\/p>\n

Did you notice anything odd in the sky last night? Where were you and what did you think it might be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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