UPDATED: Mysterious Boom Rattles CSRA

UPDATED: Mysterious Boom Rattles CSRA

An Aiken County resident describes to WJBF that he saw a fireball in the sky, after a loud boom was heard all over the CSRA around 3:00 a.m., Friday morning. Dr. Gary Senn, the director of the DuPont Planetarium at USC-Aiken stopped by our noon Newscast and spoke with our Mary Morrison about the possible causes. You can also let us know what you heard or saw.

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UNDATED—A loud noise was heard shortly before 3 a.m. Friday morning in Aiken, Richmond and Columbia counties.

Local law enforcement agencies also report hearing the boom, but no one knows what caused it.

Chris Turner, and Aiken County resident, told WJBF News Channel 6’s Sheena Bodie what he saw and heard, in a phone interview. We have also been informed that two Aiken County Sheriff’s Office deputies reportedly saw a fireball in the sky.

According to the Director of the DuPont Planetarium at USC-Aiken, Gary Senn, the cause of the boom could have possibly been a meteor. Stay tuned to WJBF Newschannel 6 and WJBF.com for more on this developing story.

Let us know below by leaving a comment to let us know what you saw or heard. You can also report meteor/fireball sightings to the American Meteor Society’s website.

If you happened to capture a photo, video, or cellphone video, please email .

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Flag Comment Posted by RainbowWoman on March 26, 2009 at 11:57 pm

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Written Thursday, March 12, 2009
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More than 200 participants around the globe will be focusing their combined consciousness with the intention of assisting the collective healing for the highest good of all during this event, which will begin at 9.30 am local Brazilian time (12:30 GMT), or 2.30 pm in Southern Africa, and will continue for approximately 3 - 4 hours.

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Flag Comment Posted by RainbowWoman on March 26, 2009 at 11:34 pm

The 21 days from Equinox on 20 March to the Full Moon of April 9 have been described as a period of heightened elecro-magnetic activity on the crystalline grid of the planet, in which long dormant magnetic codes are to be reactivated in specific generation points on the earth.

We will be hosting the Extraordinary Blessings and Amazing Synchronicity event at the end of this 21-day period, on the Full Moon of 9 April (more info to be posted here soon).

In a recent reading channeled via J. Tyberonn, The Return of the Firmament of the Dove, it was said that this equinox will initiate an “incredibly intense energy for 21 days in fervid momentum through the post equinox full moon on April 9th…all of you will discernibly feel the piercing frequency generated. ...The purpose of the download is to reseed and activate ancient magnetic codes across the length and breadth of the planet.“

Info about the upcoming event on 20 March

During the treatment process, we will work with each participant individually and as part of the group. The participants will be assisting the planetary healing by anchoring the healing energy in their part of the world, and releasing disharmonic energies no longer needed, on an individual and collective level. For those who have never before experienced vibrational healing work, this is the ideal opportunity.

We use a cutting-edge approach known as Synchronization Harmonics, and participation is open on a donation basis to anyone, anywhere in the world. Or you may choose to take advantage of Earth Heal annual membership at a nominal fee, to be included as a participant in group remote events to be held on the Solstices and Equinoxes as well as other significant dates over the next year, and receive a discount on private treatments arranged with Edna Spennato during the year.

Feedback from participants and detailed reports about what came up during the treatment for the group as a whole, and for the collective consciousness on a planetary level, are sent out to all participants after each remote group healing event.

First-time participants should get their details and pics to us via e-mail in good time before the event, so if you are interested in taking part, please check the links ASAP for info on how to be included.

This is an opportunity to harmonise with the solar cycle, and to utilise the powerful incoming energies available for personal and planetary healing on this special day

EQUINOX Ancient traditions understand that the Equinox is a powerful time to initiate changes in our material world and shift into a new reality. This applies to both Spring and Autumn Equinoxes.

On Equinox, the Earth and Sun are in perfect balance and harmony, as the sun is centered between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and centered between Heaven and Earth. This creates a sacred cross of balancing energy that naturally harmonizes the planet and humanity.

For thousands of years, light workers, peacekeepers, shamans, healers and spiritual warriors around the globe have joined together to work with this powerful energy on the days of Equinox.

Equinox occurs only twice in the year, when the Sun is directly over the Equator, and the days and nights are of equal length all over the world, representing a time of balance between the light and the dark. The Autumn Equinox happening in the S. hemisphere represents the time to harvest what we have sowed and nurtured over the past season, while the Spring Equinox occurring in the N. hemisphere symbolises the time to sow the seeds for the future we are manifesting.

A vast number of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures - tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories - so that they aligned with the Solstices and Equinoxes, which were recognised as particularly powerful days of the year by ancient civilizations, including the early Egyptians, whose Great Sphinx faces directly towards the rising sun on the Equinox.

Setting our intentions for what we want to create
As Barbara Hand-Clow wrote just before the March 2008 Equinox, “... This is the time to work with three clear intentions that reflect your desires for the next stage of your growth… list the three things you want to create… visualizing these intentions… Then just forget about them, put them away somewhere, and go about your business…..

“Be very careful about deciding exactly what you want to create because these things will happen. Are you sure you’d really want these things if you could have them? George Bush invaded Iraq right during the 2003 Spring Equinox… He chose that moment because he knew it would create a long-lasting occupation.“

This is what Hand-Clow wrote about the planetary energies just before the March Equinox last year. Her words are eerily prophetic, as we now see one year later…

“The Calleman/Clow cosmic view of the Mayan Calendar helps us to see that the enlightenment of the human species is coming very rapidly now, which is why there is so much chaos. Yet, I will not mince words and avoid speaking the truth about what we face right now: Night Five - late 2007 through most of 2008 - is the darkest hour of all the Nine Underworlds. To comprehend what this might mean for us, we need to look at two recent Night Fives during previous Underworlds. During the 5125-year National Underworld, Night Five was AD 434-829: the infamous “Dark Ages” in the West. Culture collapsed and people struggled to survive. During the 256-year Planetary Underworld, Night Five was 1932-1952: the Great Depression, Hitler, and WW II. This was one of the darkest and most insecure periods in recent times. Due to the rapid time acceleration of the Galactic Underworld since 1999, we are transmuting the events of 434-829 and 1932-52 during only 360 days (November 19, 2007, through November 12, 2008). It is the darkest hour of the Galactic Underworld, yet it lasts for less than one year….

“The old destructive ways of life are crashing and burning, new paths are opening, and it is hard to be alive now… The (March 2008) Spring Equinox chart suggests the housing and financial crisis will explode this spring… the US always seeks its own security first. Americans seek home ownership while their government is destroying homes in other countries… the US is fantasy-ridden and does not see the harm it causes for almost everybody else. America claims the right to attack anybody in the world to defend its own interests, and this stance will be severely challenged this spring. This equinox is going to expose the extent of American aggression… the US will be very aggressive and destructive in the Middle East while a financial collapse spreads.

“As I’ve said many times, a financial collapse in the US may be the only thing that can stop American aggression overseas, and I think the (March 2008) Spring Equinox chart predicts just such a great challenge to American power in the world and at home… What if the US continued to get away with these abuses? What if the US did become the global empire?...

“Make good and strong intentions during the equinox…“

Flag Comment Posted by musa on March 24, 2009 at 1:16 pm

We’ve been tracking this event since early Friday morning. It’s important that any eye witnesses to the actual fireball contact us immediately with their report to help in the search.

If anyone has seen the fireball or heard the sonic boom you can reach us at: 904-236-5394.

If you witnessed the fireball at around 3am Friday morning you are encouraged to file a FIREBALL REPORT here: http://www.meteoritesusa.com/blog/meteorite-information/report-a-fireball/

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

Flag Comment Posted by blue1 on March 23, 2009 at 1:22 am

I live in Idaho and on the 4th of March we had a similar thing happen about 5:15 pm. The windows shook and there was 3 loud booms. We thought that there was an earthquake or a plane crash or something,maybe a sonic boom. We contacted the local news and they said no earthquakes were reported, and no military maneuvers were being held at that time and basically that we didnt hear anything. I really wonder what this is, and if maybe they are doing testing and just not letting the public know. If it is happening across the map it seems very strange to me. I would like to know what this was.

Flag Comment Posted by drevenkaine on March 22, 2009 at 10:01 pm

In case some of you did not know the same thing or very closely resembling the same thing happened on March 4th in orange county California.  http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=6691649

there are no such things as coincidences

Flag Comment Posted by sbartasek on March 22, 2009 at 9:28 am

I was up to hear and feel it too.  Not sure exactly what time but between 2:30 and 3am. I ran outside after hearing it to look and couldn’t see anything but there are trees all around. From my house close to the Aiken Mall after studying the map to be sure,  it sounded like it came from Augusta though at first I was sure it was from the SR site. My fiance described it as sounding sorta like thunder but this was no thunder for sure. Very deep, rumbling, long lasting sound that was louder at first and shook the house (concrete slab foundation), yes, but had no “crack” at the beginning or notably louder portion as lightening would have. Seems very strange to me that they say no ground tremors were picked up. Even if this originated in the air. The boom was heard in North Carolina?  Cmon!

Flag Comment Posted by nofrills13 on March 21, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Everybody is wrong! Its a cover up. They are testing and doing test at SRS and this was an accident they don’t want the public to know about. Think avout it. They know we would freak and everybody would want to stop all projects and stop spending money on MOX so they covered up the accident. The only problem is now I’m starting to glow in the dark.

Flag Comment Posted by Anonymous on March 21, 2009 at 1:48 am

I commented on the noise previously that my dogs were also awakend by the noise. My location is in S. Augusta off of Old Waynesboro Rd. I can say that I have seen many falling stars out this way but never experienced anything quiet like this.

Flag Comment Posted by timebandit on March 20, 2009 at 6:49 pm

I didnt hear the one last night,but I live next to tignall Ga and about a month ago we heard a big boom it was heard and felt over about a 15 mile or so radius it was in the washington wilkes news paper but they never found where it came from

Flag Comment Posted by ChelseaS on March 20, 2009 at 3:51 pm

I was up and wide awake at 3:00 AM. I can say for sure what time it was, but late at night some time around that time zone, There was a huge boom, but not only that it shook the entire house. No one else in the house heard it or woke up but me, so I got up and looked out the window and there was no rain, no wind, no lightning to explain why i heard this. It was nothing like a car crash, or thunder. I thought i was alone it what i heard until my Dad call 15 minutes ago telling me they were talking about it at work. -Did any ones else feel it too like me? Enough to make the floor feel like it moving, shaking? just for a quick moment? -chel

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