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I heard it, it was pretty crazy. It was raining lightly and we were like... "That was... not... thunder".
Unlike thunder it was a short boom (not rolling), it had a concussive aspect to it, it shook the house. I assumed it was local, perhaps a transformer blowing or something. But then someone told me there was a news alert about it saying it was heard across Eastern Mass. At that point I was like oh wow... then it had to be a meteor!
In retrospect, it could have been the sonic boom we heard (my initial assumption was that it must have been the airburst that we heard).