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Officials checking into report of explosion north of Waco
McLennan County sheriff’s deputies are checking into reports of a loud explosion from residents around the Chalk Bluff or Lacy-Lakeview area, according to the police scanner.
Anyone out there know anything?
Update 12:43 p.m.: Representatives from SpaceX, which tests rockets in McGregor, and L-3, which modifies aircraft in the Lacy-Lakeview area, have both said their businesses were not the source of the noise.
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By Erin
April 7, 2009 12:43 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I heard something this morning too! I live in beverly Hills but it felt and sounded like something huge hit my house! Wasn’t sure waht it was.
By Shawntel
April 7, 2009 12:54 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I’m in McGregor and we heard it here too!
By jimmy
April 7, 2009 12:56 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Geees people……It’s a noise. Get over it. Guess what, planes produce sonic booms. Or a gas well or and oil derrick blowing up or any other of thousands of things. If you here a noise look outside. If the sun is still in the air and the atmosphere isn’t on fire then it’s not the end of the world! Quit being sooo dang Armageddonish. If the world ins’t ending then do you really have to email the Trib or KWTX to get answers? And trust me, if it really is the end of the world, the Trib isn’t gonna be able to help you!
By MIssy
April 7, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I live in South Waco, and it sounded like a car hit my neighbours house. I actually got up to look outside and see what was damaged.
I’ll be interested to see what it really was.
By No Name
April 7, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
It was another meteorite falling from the sky!
By Jeculo
April 7, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
What time was this at?
By Mark Jackson
April 7, 2009 1:21 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
The time of the blast was around 11:25a.m. or so. It was heard in Lorena, I first thought it was a car crash on I-35.
By jeculo
April 7, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
We heard it in hewitt
By Sand
April 7, 2009 1:23 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I heard the loud noise. I live in North Waco. I thought a large tree branch had fallen on the roof, but it was nothing.
By grumpy gus
April 7, 2009 1:23 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
It was the sound of the national debt exploding. Or the economy crashing. Get used to it.
By know it all
April 7, 2009 1:27 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Everyone calm down. It was only a alien aircraft crusing around and hit teridactyle. Why do we all get aroused?
By Joseph Abbott
April 7, 2009 2:02 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Because even if it obviously isn’t the end of the world or even any threat to life and limb, people are still curious to know what the big boom was?
By Don
April 7, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Has anyone checked to see if Lovers’ Leap is higher today than it was yesterday? Maybe the Balcones Fault is starting to shift, and we will get to join the Columbia Mammoth herd at the bottom of the Bosque River.
I live right in the middle of everyone and did not hear or feel a thing.
By anonymous
April 7, 2009 2:25 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I heard it in Gatesville also.
By N
April 7, 2009 2:36 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
KWTX is reporting it to be sonic boom from a Lockheed fighter jet.
By Mark Jackson
April 7, 2009 2:47 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
That was my first guess, a sonic boom, wow, I have not heard those since I was a kid in the country. Guess some pilot got his throttle stuck, you can not go past the speed of sound over land now, you will get a ticket from the Hewitt gestapo.
By concerned citizen
April 7, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I was just coming accross the border of Mexico and Texas and i heard this loud noise. i wasn’t really sure what it was. any ideas?
By El Diablo
April 7, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
It was a sonic boom. I remember them being pretty common when I was a kid. Scared the crap outta me every time.
By Very Scared Wacoan
April 7, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I am here in Alaska and I heard it!!! My brothe is in Iraq and he heard this loud BOOM….So I called my Best Friend in Afgahnaistan and he was unavailable to answer his Army Phone…Found out later they were taking cover from a unknown BOOM. This couldn’t of been a Sonic Boom….It was heard World Wide. My cousin is doing 6 months in space at the space station and he sadi he heard a Boom…But that was Aliens cruising by listening to some Rap Music. However we have to all be prepared for the next BOOM….Ok Here Goes…….Oh Man I Feel Better!! :)
By Opus Meo
April 7, 2009 9:16 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Where did this thing about not going supersonic over land come from? It isn’t true…..