Booms in Bensalem Caused By Military Exercises: Report

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —Joss Sass said he heard the "explosion" around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

He posted about it in the Bensalem Patch Neighbors section. There were about 75 similar comments asking about the "explosion" on Facebook's FYI Bensalem page as well.

Quite often, residents will post about loud bangs or noises they hear with the township's proximity to numerous highways and various PennDOT projects underway overnight on Route 1 and nearby Route 95.

But this "explosion" early Sunday morning was a little different.

One resident posted on FYI Bensalem that it shook their house. Others said their houses shook too and that the noise was also reported in nearby Croydon. Another said their Ring app was "blowing up." One resident said they thought an appliance in their house exploded.

Another resident pointed posters to the Wetherboy.com website which stated that the explosion certainly wasn't thunder.

NBC10 Philadelphia reported that the booms were from military training exercises at New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, located about 18 miles south of Trenton.

The news outlet said that the base released a statement recently that there would be training exercises this past weekend that could include loud noises, like mortar fire and cratering charges.

Similar exercises are scheduled for Feb. 18 and 19 as well, the base reported in the NBC10 story.