Louisiana Loud Boom a Mystery: Aliens Could be Reason?

At around 4:30 p.m. Monday this week, some Louisiana residents were alerted to a loud boom and a bit of rattling. Naturally, this phenomenon has "rattled nerves in Caddo and Bossier Parishes," KTBS reported.

"I was laying in the bed about to get ready to go to work and it was like a big boom. It knocked the pictures off the wall, the trophies over and it busted the next door neighbor window," local David Toal said.

Others have suspected the mysterious "sonic boom" may be caused by a UFO. Some speculated it may be due to a meteorite crashing into the area.

The National Weather Service had corroborated the phenomenon with the confirmation that that a debris field was detected by radar at around the same time that the residents reported hearing the loud sound, Fox8 said.

"Debris was indicated rising 1,000 to 1,500 feet into the air, and that it drifted eastward toward Bienville Parish," the news source explained. "There was no precipitation in the area at the time, as the storms that moved through Monday were well into eastern Louisiana by 4:30 in the afternoon."

It was also reported that the debris field was still visible until about 6 p.m. of the same day.

"No seismic activity was recorded in the area; nearby gas and oil operations reported no evidence of explosion; and nothing at a nearby military base could explain the event," NEWSMAX said. Was it the work of aliens?

If you ask amateur astronomers, they'd say a meteor is probably to blame.

"IF it was a large meteoroid fragmentation a LOUD BOOM would result. IF media witness reports are correct, and IF this event was meteor related, the detonation occurred near Greenwood, LA and Waskom, LA areas at 18-25 miles above the Earth," speculated a Lunar Meteorite Hunters blog post.

Some locals have reported that their walls shook and windows rattled from the boom, although there were no claims involving significant property damage.

Meanwhile, NWS Senior Forecaster Marty Mayeaux was quoted by Fox8 as saying that it's baffling that locals living near where the debris field is located did not report seeing anything.

"Based on the time frame and the fact that the radar scans every 6 minutes, he believes something had to have smoldered for 10 to 15 minutes in order for the debris to rise to the height that it did and remain on the radar for as long as it did," the news source said.

"Whatever happened that radar detected, it didn't elicit a response (from people in the area)," Mayeaux said.