Staten Island's Mystery Noise: Fireworks After All

The Monday night strange noise puzzling Staten Islanders has been cleared up by the police: Fireworks, the police tell the Staten Island Advance. The Advance spoke to witnesses who said it was a "professional 'Macy's-style' aerial explosive launched from somewhere near Richmond"—guess it wasn't on a scale where the police clashed with residents. A resident said it could have been fireworks, "but it sounded like a lot more than that." And a sanitation worker pointed out, "The only people that saw it say it was fireworks, but still no one wants to believe it."

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By Jen Chung in News on March 19, 2009 9:48 AM

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NannyState

'Twas "F-Bombs burstin' in air".

ed_Extinct

Something STINKS on Staten Island.

Papercutninja

OMG Staten Island TRUTHERS!!!

tnturner

Big News! Something made a noise on Staten Island!

Schwartzie

Skeptics are always good for a laugh.

I live by the East River and there are a couple of unexpected fireworks shows every year.

The first time it happened, I swore it was the beginning of WWIII, but my curiosity got the better of me and I was pleasantly rewarded.

jaycjay

Wouldn't the people who believed it to be something as routine as fireworks -- as opposed to something unexplainable, extraterrestrial, supernatural, conspiratorial, or whatever -- be the ones called 'skeptics'?

It's the conspiracy theorists or whatever you want to call them who insist that this couldn't have been fireworks who are good for a laugh.