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The noise heard on Tuesday  was most likely a meteoroid made of iron, travelling at around 1,000 mph.
As it entered the atmosphere it would have left a trail of sonic booms as it disintegrated quite close to the ground.
Speaking to website Lifes Littel Mysteries,  Mr Joe Zawodny, NASA scientist, said there was one other remote possibility.

"The only other thing that I've been holding open as possibility - and this would be quite rare - is this could be a result of an atmospheric ducting phenomenon. For ducting to work, ideal weather conditions create layers in the atmosphere that channel sound waves from one place to another.  We've had the right temperature profile in the area" - Joe Zawodny

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Boom was shallow quake, Beach 8th-graders speculate

A U.S. Geological Survey article about "Seneca guns" - unexplained booms that have been reported in coastal communities across the world for nearly as long as people have lived there. The earth science students considered various explanations but latched onto this theory, said Dianna McDowell, a Kemps Landing science teacher.
The students are probably right, said Ken Taylor, chief geologist with the North Carolina Geological Survey.
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NASA Says Mysterious Boom Felt Over Virginia Was 'A Meteor' - 11/05/11



Mystery Surrounds Boom Felt Over Areas In Virginia



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A NASA scientist believes he might have an answer.

"It's most consistent with a meteor coming into the Earth's atmosphere and creating a large sonic boom" - Joe Zawodny, NASA scientist.

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'Unnerving' rumble in Virginia Beach a mystery

The seconds-long reverberation at approximately 7:20 p.m. Tuesday sent neighbours to porches, piqued slumbering pets and launched a thousand theories. But nobody can say for sure what it was - not police or seismologists or meteorologists or NASA or Oceana Naval Air Station or the Virginia National Guard.
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What was the mystery boom?

NewsChannel 3 also wanted an answer. Was it a jet practicing? Was it a meteor shower? Or was it a space shuttle?
We called NAS Oceana they say it wasn't their jets. We called Langley they said they didn't make the noise. And we even called the National Space Operation Centre but it wasn't them.
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Mystery boom rattles parts of Virginia

Media outlets report that the mystery boom occurred Tuesday night. It was reported in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Suffolk.
Some residents reported that the disturbance shook their homes.
The U.S. Geological Surveys reports show no seismic activity at the time.
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Wavy.com is reporting that a strange noise heard in Hampton Roads on Tuesday night, similar to a boom or a roll of thunder may have been a meteorite coming into the Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteor likely caused mysterious boom

Virginia Beach is a city full of sound. Waves crash at the Oceanfront and fighter jets scream overhead. However, a boom Tuesday night caught hundreds of normally unfazed residents from Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore completely off-guard.
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