The cause of a massive sonic boom over South Carolina is still a mystery as residents and US officials scramble to identify the source.

Scientists are still trying to determine what caused a sonic boom that shook Columbia last week

A meteor expert says a Lexington home camera caught the likely culprit: an aircraft breaking the sound barrier, not a fireball from space.

At 5:24 p.m. May 28, a great many people in the Columbia area heard a loud boom and felt the structures they were in shake.

A huge noise rattled part of the state on Thursday. Multiple theories have been put forward, but the mystery remains.

South Carolina was shaken by confusion and concern on May 28, after residents across the Midlands reported what sounded and felt like a massive explosion. Preliminary data pointed to an unusual atmospheric event in the Midlands,

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Midlands residents heard a loud boom and felt a noticeable shake late Thursday afternoon as many people were getting home from work

The explosions and the boom sounds heard by the residents could be the result of “a rather significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere.”