For a couple of months in 2026, explosion-like booms woke New Holstein, Wisconsin, mostly in the early hours of Saturdays. A backyard camera caught a flash before one bang. Police have assigned an officer, and the mayor thinks a person is behind it.
For about a month in late summer 2026, booms rattled windows in Winters, Texas, and one sent Winters ISD into a brief lockdown. Residents hear a plane afterwards but never see it. Dyess AFB says it wasn’t its aircraft. Here is what’s documented, and what isn’t.
At least five west Bozeman residents felt a wall-shaking boom between 8 and 8:15pm on 31 July 2026. Police, the utility, the airport and two military units all came up empty. Here is the record, the weather and seismic data, and the likeliest ordinary cause.
