THE BRIGG BANG THEORY: TALKING POINT ACROSS THE TOWN

Suggestions continue to be made about the source of a loud bang heard across Brigg about 8.35pm on Friday evening.
Ideas followed on social media yesterday and in conversations between Brigg people.
A big firework is one Brigg Bang Theory. However, there only one crack while celebrations usually merit many being set off in succession.
Perhaps it was a plane breaking the sound barrier. But that's something more associated with decades past than the present in terms of the Brigg area.
Some of us can remember the loud bang in 1974 resulting from the tragic Nypro industrial explosion at Flixborough. Despite happened far away near the River Trent, the force of the blast rattled windows in our town.
We wonder if last Friday's bang might have come from a meteorite breaking up as it entered Earth's atmosphere.
A shower of these is evident during August, with more anticipated next month.
Perhaps the source of Friday night's noise will never be confirmed beyond all reasonable doubt.
It got us searching through rooms upstairs to see if something had been dislodged.
This probably applied in other Brigg households.