Reports of the loud noise came in around 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem in southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom,” the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted that his office confirmed it was not related to any seismic activity or military installations. The National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City tweeted that the lightning-detection mapper likely caught the meteor’s trail, which officials said appeared to be confirmed by video from a witness in Roy. South Salt Lake resident Wendi Melling was just walking out the door Saturday morning when she heard the noise, which she described as a “loud deep booming sound” followed by a few seconds of humming. A webcam captured a meteor flying over Snowbasin Resort in Huntsville, Utah on August 13, 2022.AP “I thought I heard something fall in the house. I’ve since searched the house top to bottom and the only thing I found was a ridge from our wooden fence that had fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling wrote in a Facebook message. “It sounded similar to sonic booms I’ve heard before, followed by a brief incident of sound similar to low thunder,” Melling continued. “That noise that followed the explosion was maybe 3-4 seconds.”
