There was a loud explosion at Dobbins Air Reserve Base

[RebelOne]

here in Marietta, GA just about 1/2 hour ago. I work directly across the street from Dobbins. I was outside smoking a cigarette and heard this loud boom. Have no idea what it was. I have to the local news Web sites and haven't seen anything about it.

[MemphisTiger]

1. Could have been an electrical transformer that blew

considering the high temperature that would be my guess.

[shadowknows69]

4. hope you're right tiger

too many ugly alternatives forming in my brain.

[mtnester]

2. Accidental sonic boom?

maybe?

[blonndee]

3. Are you sure it wasn't a sonic boom?

[shadowknows69]

5. If rebel lives that close.

I'll bet he knows what a sonic boom sounds like

[blonndee]

6. I grew up near an air base in NM

and never heard one till I was about 21. I was inside and thought it was an explosion right outside my house--shook the walls and everything.

[mtnester]

8. Sometimes, when the air was just right and full with humidity

sonic booms would happen when I lived in Florida...someone from just across town would say "Didya hear that sonic today?" Whereas I would say Nope. This happened vice verse as well.

All sonics are different in sound, depending on the wind, the air quality, topography, etc....this coming from a grown up who lived in the flight line of a major AF base during Vietnam.

Now my son, he does not even know what a sonic boom sounds like, and he is nearly 26 years old.

[shadowknows69]

9. We get them frequently here

I swear they used to have f-16's going supersonic right over our city all the time. Mostly just the big cargo planes lately.

[mtnester]

12. You live near water?

Those are the places where accidentals happen the most.

[shadowknows69]

13. Yep

Right near lake ontario. Right next to a river practically.

[RebelOne]

7. Nope, not a sonic boom. It was on the ground.

[shadowknows69]

10. Keep us posted reb

n/t

[RebelOne]

11. I think the mystery of the explosion is solved.

My co-worker just told me that the city is doing some construction blasting in the area. But it sure was scary when it seemed to come from the Air Reserve Base.