Sunday, June 8, 2014

Mysterious Explosion


 Residents on N. East Street, College Street and South East Street all heard/felt it

Dispatch received multiple calls last night around 8:15 PM reporting a huge explosion somewhere in east Amherst.  The reporting party on Jenks Street said it "shook the house," and upon first arriving on scene an Amherst police officer noted smoke off in the distance woods.

But by the time he hitched a ride out to the suspected area, the smoke was gone.  I went outside immediately after the first 911 call aired to scan the skies for a military jet, but did not see or hear one. 



Mystery solved.  Or NOT

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

It could be swamp gas -- unventilated methane which found an ignition source.

Anonymous said...

I heard it in south Amherst -- thought it was a backfire.

Anonymous said...

I'm on North East Street. Noted about a half hour of loud gunfire off to my east for half an hour before the bang. Think it was people playing with explosives.

Larry Kelley said...

Yeah, that's kind of what I"m afraid of.

Anonymous said...

Could have been the Arabs known as the "Quabbin 5"

Anonymous said...

Maybe they'll have a lockdown tomorrow in the schools

Anonymous said...

Just becaws they were Muslim, and proweling around Metro Boston's water supply, doesn't meen they were up to know good

Anonymous said...

I take it there has been no news on the actual explosion since it occurred.

Dr. Ed said...

How many people would actually recognize a sonic boom? Those *will* shake the house.

However Larry, if you're right, it puts the Dylan Disaster in a different light, doesn't it? Whoever was involved has real "bang" and Dylan never did. They are the threat he never was.

Anonymous said...

I hope 9:33PM is not an Amherst high graduate.
Holy Cow... If so, the school system has a lot more wrong with it than racism.

Anonymous said...

It must be terrorist!!! right? silly hippie elitists!
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Dr. Ed said...

t must be terrorist!!! right? silly hippie elitists!

If you are talking a cannon being fired, I believe there is a difference in acoustics between an explosion and a tube weapon discharge.