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I agree it could have been anything and I am not suggesting a meteor. We have lived here for 9 years and I have never heard anything as loud. I called and spoke with the Sheriff's office and they did receive several reports from our area. They sent four police cars immediately and then sent out the Sheriff's search helicopter. They checked with FP & L and were told that no transformers had blown in the area. The police did not find anything and they are guessing that since school is out that maybe a group of teens set off a couple of M-80's. It appears that it will remain unsolved.

My husband said that he would guess it to be sonic boom from Military Jets. The military are doing all sorts of exercises now. Also in the past when they have scrambled jets from Homestead Airforce Base we have seen and heard them high above, but never with a big boom.

"Also in the past when they have scrambled jets from Homestead Airforce Base we have seen and heard them high above, but never with a big boom.

I live in Miami and although I too have seen military overhead many times they almost never break the sound barrier. Just a day or so after 911 one F15 screamed over my portable classroom at about a thousand feet and went ballistic (straight up) with full afterburner. My students were terrified! I made them hustle outside and look up. As the thunder rumbled over the city and his 'burners were just twin red dots on a blue sky I shouted to them:

"Hear THAT? THAT'S the sound of FREEDOM!!! They are up there, fully armed, to protect YOU!!!" My students are almost all Haitian immigrants. It made an impression.

But I had a fighter jock once tell me that they are pretty much forbidden unless it's an emergency from breaking the sound barrier over populated areas. They head over the sea or I guess it's okay over farmland, but rarely over populated areas. I kind of wonder if that pilot that day got into trouble. But it was a great lesson on American Government that day! LOL