Ring app users reported hearing and feeling the massive explosion around noon.
One person speculated some commotion at Naval Weapons Station Earle, in Colts Neck, and another said this is not the first time that the boom has occurred.
"This has been going on for a few months and nobody knows what it is," they wrote, noting it's "very strange" and seems to be getting "more widespread and louder."
The boom was reported from West Long Branch to Trenton. One resident in Eatontown said their whole house shook
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