The citizens of Iasi and its surroundings experienced a strange phenomenon two weeks ago when a booming sound – which lased for 2 seconds – took everybody by surprise.

Romanian authorities did not give an explanation for the phenomenon, but people continued talking about it, especially because the city of Iași is not at its first rodeo. On June 1st, 2016, the citizens of Iași and its surroundings heard a similar sound that remained unexplained even today.

The theories regarding this month’s event appeared almost immediately in the Romanian press and on social media, but Physics Professor Silviu Gurlui (from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi) dismissed the airplane sonic boom hypothesis two days later.



Professor Silviu Gurlui inferred that a small meteorite exploded over the city of Iași on the 9th of July and today he published the conclusions he reached after studying the data captured by equipment installed in the city.