FLINT, Michigan — Flint police searched the source, but found nothing.

East Side residents say they’ve been hearing and feeling it for years.

Now, the city of Flint is seeking help from state and federal governments to determine what is causing the seemingly random and powerful boom in and around Flint’s Rollingwood neighborhood.

“I’ve been running around since last year… trying to figure out where it is,” said Quincy Murphy, a member of the Third District Council who represents the area where the neighborhood is located. Whatever it is, it’s big, it’s underground, and no one knows what it is.”

Annette Reynolds, president of the Rollingwood Neighborhood Association, said the booms occurred without patterns, some on consecutive days, others a month or more apart, and varied in intensity.

She said her neighbors disagreed about where the noise was coming from and had nowhere else to turn to for help.

“It’s hard to describe what it is,” said Reynolds, whose family has lived in her home since 1986. To me it sounds like something is exploding underground… I can feel the floor shaking. It’s like underground fireworks. ”

The city council voted on April 24 to file a complaint about the boom with the Michigan Department of Environment, the Great Lakes Department of Environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

City officials will hold discussions with business representatives in the surrounding area to determine if an incinerator, junkyard, gas pipe, or bomb launch site is the source of the boom, according to a resolution approved by Congress. rice field.

So far they have not received any response.

Both Murphy and Reynolds say not knowing the source of the noise is terrifying for residents, as two people died in an explosion on Hogarth Avenue in Flint on November 22, 2021.

Investigators say a natural gas leak contributed to the explosion, but the cause remains officially unknown.

Related: A gas leak “contributed” to the deadly Hogarth Avenue explosion, but the cause remains unknown.

“I don’t want what happened in Hogarth Street to happen here,” said Murphy. “We don’t know what it is. I’m clueless, I’m worried… Whatever it is, these neighbors are worried.”

Fourth Ward Councilor Judy Priestley said the noise was also being heard at the northern end of her ward, and that she had heard reports that the noise was so intense that the foundations of homes were damaged.

Detective Sergeant of the Flint Police Department. Tyrone Booth said he had been receiving 911 calls for months from residents in the area around North Dort Highway and Stewart Street.

“Residents describe the sound as an explosion,” Booth said in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal.

“Therefore, we are asking the public to notify Genesee County’s 911 system immediately if they hear a loud explosion,” he said. will help solve the

In 2013, after residents on the east side complained of hearing similar periodic booms rattling the walls of their homes, police admitted the agency maintained bomb ranges at undisclosed locations in the area. but did not confirm that it was related to the sound.

Booth said this week that the bomb’s range was ruled out as the cause of the boom.

Related: Flint’s Mystery Boom Explained: Police Confirm Secret Bomb Range

Reynolds said police told her reports of the explosion sound were inconsistent with explosives detonating at the firing range.

The sound was commonly heard in the area bounded by Carpenter Road to the north, Leith Street to the south, Center Road to the east, and North Saginaw Street to the west, according to Congressional resolutions calling for state and federal responses to the boom. It says.

Priestley said he was aware of reports of repeated loud noises being heard across the country, according to separate reports, and investigations that failed to provide specific answers.

“I know there are other parts of the country that have this kind of loud noise and can’t find a solution, but how do you know this is the same thing unless you go out and search for them? ?” said Priestley.

Unexplained booming sounds have been reported in areas across the country for decades.

In 2018, the Associated Press reported that residents of Mojave County, Arizona, reported a loud “booming noise” that rattled windows across the area. Similar reports have been made in states such as Utah, Massachusetts and Oklahoma.

Reynolds started a Facebook page named “”.noisy,. A boom that shakes the ground.I’m trying to gather information about explosion sounds here.

“I’m trying very hard to help in this fight. Yes, I need your help in that fight,” she said in a post on the page this week. If this has anything to do with further explosions, your family could fall apart.I take this quite seriously because not only is my life is also important, and we all deserve to know what causes it.”

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