Experts across the board were still stymied Wednesday after a deafening boom echoed through the northern New Jersey town of Hopatcong, jolting people awake in the dead of night.
The blast echoed across the approximately 14,000-population lakeside Sussex County borough, about 40 miles west of New York City, at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday, NJ Advance Media reported.
Numerous home security cameras captured the flash of light and what sounded like an explosion.
Resident Lauren Manning, whose Nest camera got a good look at the phenom, told the Daily Voice that the massive boom woke her entire family and shook their house.
Calls and videos streamed into police dispatch, with officers investigating “multiple locations around town,” Hopatcong Police Department Capt. Michael O’Shea told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. “We didn’t find anything damaged or any issues related to the flash of light and the noise itself.”
Inquiries to several other potential sources were equally fruitless. The U.S. Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in neighboring Morris County told NJ Advance Media they never blow things up at night, especially on a federal holiday. It didn’t seem to be a weather event or a meteor either, various agencies said, leaving experts everywhere scratching their heads.
