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BOOM! Did you hear that? Window-rattling noise Saturday night jarred residents across the county
If it had only been a couple days earlier, maybe it could have been blamed on Santa’s sleigh backfiring.
A mystery boom that rattled windows and startled residents around the county just after 8 p.m. Saturday remains just that: A mystery.
Pierce County 911 fielded about a dozen calls in roughly a five-minute span not long after the sound echoed through the area, according to county Emergency Management Agency Director Ken Justice.
“We don’t know what it was,” he says.
One Blackshear resident described the sound like “two trains crashing.” Despite the noise, however, no crash or no mess was left to be found “ just speculation by those who heard it.
Some witness have suggested the sound was actually a sonic boom from a passing aircraft.
The “boom” shook homes and was reported from the southern end of the county up to the Otter Creek community.
Justice says he called three main sources who could have shed light on the noise. When he was through, he only knew what it wasn’t.
“We checked with the Jacksonville airport. The military said it had nothing flying. The National Weather Service also had no ideas,” he says. “What it is remains a mystery.”
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A mystery boom that rattled windows and startled residents around the county just after 8 p.m. Saturday remains just that: A mystery.
Pierce County 911 fielded about a dozen calls in roughly a five-minute span not long after the sound echoed through the area, according to county Emergency Management Agency Director Ken Justice.
“We don’t know what it was,” he says.
One Blackshear resident described the sound like “two trains crashing.” Despite the noise, however, no crash or no mess was left to be found “ just speculation by those who heard it.
Some witness have suggested the sound was actually a sonic boom from a passing aircraft.
The “boom” shook homes and was reported from the southern end of the county up to the Otter Creek community.
Justice says he called three main sources who could have shed light on the noise. When he was through, he only knew what it wasn’t.
“We checked with the Jacksonville airport. The military said it had nothing flying. The National Weather Service also had no ideas,” he says. “What it is remains a mystery.”
Read these stories and more in the December 31 edition of The Blackshear Times
(Subscribers click here to log in and read the entire paper online.)
• 'The kind of guy you want to be': Devoted family man Kelly Jones inspired many as he battled brain cancer
• No new developments in Connell murder, lawmen say
• We Remember: Those we lost in 2008 left mark of service and inspiration
• Pierce leads nearby counties in economic development, but lags behind top in state
• No injuries in Christmas Eve fire claiming home of Offerman family
• Taking pride in his ride: It took time - and a lot of money - for local man to restore his 1953 pick-up
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Pamela wrote on Dec 31, 2008 10:36 PM:
This sure is a mystery. I hope someone comes forward with an answer simply to satisfy our collective curiosity. "