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Unusual Sonic Boom Over Central Florida
10-31-01
| Ovrtaxt
Posted on 10/31/2001 3:17:25 PM PST by ovrtaxt
Did anyone else hear a single, very loud, very defined sonic boom over the north Tampa Bay area today about 11:00 AM? There was nothing on the news about it this evening.
It wasn't the shuttle, there was no shuttle landing today, and the shuttle makes a series of 'softer' booms as it decelerates over Florida. This is unusual because the jets that fly from MacDill Airbase in South Tampa (central command headquarters) have to follow a flight path out into the Gulf of Mexico before going supersonic. There was no jet engine noise at all.
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To: ovrtaxt
Maybe they were scrambling over the nuke facility at Crystal River. That would make sense. Maybe they were up really high. When I was little, we lived in California and the sonic booms out there around LA were usually of the loud variety you described as having never heard before.
To: Slippery Fish
Reenactment for you: "B O O M."
To: Hatteras; ovrtaxt
Like this?....FREgards
63
posted on
11/01/2001 11:01:51 AM PST
by
gonzo
To: gonzo
No, I didn't say 'red x in a box', I said 'donut on a rope', you know, like this:
64
posted on
11/01/2001 12:05:08 PM PST
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Hatteras
To: Chapita
Good to see your name on this thread.
65
posted on
11/01/2001 12:23:49 PM PST
by
yarddog
To: ovrtaxt
Yep, clearly heard by Honeymoon Island........
66
posted on
11/01/2001 12:29:45 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: ovrtaxt
No, I didn't hear it. Had my windows open, and I'm about 10 miles (due west) as the crow flies from Mac Dill.
5.56mm
67
posted on
11/01/2001 12:32:03 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: ovrtaxt
Or her thighs rumbling as she walked.
68
posted on
11/01/2001 12:36:22 PM PST
by
Minty
To: Hatteras
Oh crap! We're both trying to link to Geo-Cities! They don't allow us to do that, soooooo, I'll load it on my website, and post it from there.
Gimme a coupla weeks....FRegards
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11/01/2001 5:37:56 PM PST
by
gonzo
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