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PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office got more than a dozen calls on Saturday after a sonic boom caused by low-flying jets shocked residents and caused damage ranging from items falling off walls to broken glass. The sheriff’s office took calls from Pomona Park, Lake Como, Crescent City and as far north as Palatka, and several people reported seeing two low-flying jets and hearing loud booms, which were the result of the jets breaking the sound barrier. One caller said they saw the sonic boom bubble. The jets involved were F-15s from the Florida Air National Guard....

The skies over Washington DC were chaotic Sunday as a small plane flew overhead. Some reports indicate it even made it over the White House with Joe Biden inside. Sonic booms were being reported as explosions in the nation’s capital. F-16s were scrambled and the plane later crashed in rural Virginia. There is no confirmation that the plane was shot down by the military. According to The Gateway Pundit: "The plane that flew over Washington, D.C. Sunday afternoon and crashed in rural Virginia was allowed to fly almost right over the White House, according to flight tracking. The Capitol was...

Dozens of people reported hearing a huge 'bang' or 'explosion' in DC - that shook the ground and was compared to an earthquake. This is a developing story...

Master Sergeant Steven Conklin, spokesman for the 142nd Wing, said the military is authorized to fly supersonic 15 miles beyond the coastline, but pilots should not have the nose of the jet pointed toward the coast.The 142nd Wing in a Facebook post apologized for causing concern among coastal residents."During this training, we inadvertently went supersonic, and caused a sonic boom while pointed slightly toward the coastline while greater than 15 miles away from land," the 142nd Wing posted on Facebook. "We understand that this caused concern from our coastal residents and for that we sincerely apologize."

But what some thought was another quake turned out to be a sonic boom that was recorded about 9:20 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The blast of sound energy occurred about one mile south of San Dimas, the USGS reported. But the effects rippled out toward the coast, where several people reported feeling an earthquake-like rumble.

Full title: BREAKING NEWS: 'Huge explosion' heard across London as Twitter users report being woken by a loud bang and 'buildings shaking'

"The road, trees, houses and even ourselves were bathed in a blinding phosphorescent-like glow which had its center in a bright streak in the sky above us," highway construction superintendent Leroy Milhan of Centerville, Michigan, would recall in a paper published the following year. "It passed over us toward the west. Immediately came a muffled report or jar that shook houses and the very earth like an earthquake." The following day, the Washington Times reported that "telegraph and telephone communications and electric lighting plants in several cities in southern Michigan and northern Indiana are out of commission" as a result...

The launch is scheduled for shortly after 7:20 p.m., Vandenberg Air Force base officials said in an advisory. The rocket will carry the Argentinian SOACOM 1A radar mapping satellite. Those near the base, which is near Lompoc, may be able to see quite a show as the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket burns its rocket engines to come to a gentle landing back at the air force base, officials said. "During the landing attempt, residents from Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties may hear one or more sonic booms," according to the advisory. "

Tuesday night’s fireball, Hankey said, included reports of people hearing a “sonic boom,” which are typically heard within a 50-mile radius of a fireball sighting. Some of the reports, he said, came in from parts of north and central Pennsylvania. “To have that echoing sound means it has to get pretty close to the surface,” Hankey said. “It penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere deep enough to create a sonic boom.” That, he said, “makes it stand out.”

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Fox 43 News in Hampton Roads (VA Beach) VA reported that a possible sonic boom from an offshore aircraft occured around 8-9 PM this evening. I heard it and couldn't tell what it was. Just curious to know if anyone else heard it. This is the link http://www.fox43tv.com/dpps/news/local/va_beach/possible-sonic-boom-felt-in-va.-beach_3985342

we heard several sonic booms over melbourne florida on 3/11/11 around 9pm , curious to know if anyone else heard them ?

SEATTLE -- F-15 fighter jets scrambled from Portland to deal with an unknown aircraft that had entered restricted air space over Western Washington caused two sonic booms that were heard across a wide swath of the region, the FAA reported Tuesday. Several calls from worried residents from Olympia to Seattle flooded emergency dispatchers and the KOMO Newsroom reporting two distinct explosions that rattled windows and shook homes. The FAA had restricted a large area to aircraft over Seattle due to President Obama's visit. A spokesman with the Oregon Air National Guard said two F-15s from their 142nd Fighter Wing were...

What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky? If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday. Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world. . . . The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds...

I live in Fayette County Georgia. At 3am this morning the windows on the west side of the house shook with a massive concussive force. I ran outside....nothing. I do not believe this was aircraft related. I called the sheriff's dept, they received several calls. Tinfoil hat time. Is it possible that there is preparation being made for crowd control this april 15th with the use of sound? Anyone else in Georgia experience this this morning?

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A sonic boom rattled southern New Zealand on Tuesday, and hundreds of callers swamped emergency services about the noise, which scientists said was probably caused by a small meteor plunging toward earth. Residents in the southern city of Christchurch, 190 miles south of the capital Wellington, told police and fire services that the boom shook the ground and their houses. The resident superintendent of the Mt. John Observatory, Allan Gilmore, told National Radio the sonic boom indicated the meteor was traveling "very low" and was probably between the size of a baseball and a basketball. Witnesses...

The crew of a luxury cruise ship used a sonic weapon that blasts earsplitting noise in a directed beam while being attacked by a gang of pirates off Africa this weekend, the cruise line said Monday. The Seabourn Spirit had a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, installed as a part of its defense systems, said Bruce Good, a spokesman for Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line. The Spirit was about 100 miles off Somalia when pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns as they tried to get onboard. The subsidiary of Carnival Corp. was investigating whether the weapon was successful in...

The Israeli military Saturday ordered troops to move towards the sector north of the Gaza Strip, after a launching air strikes on the territory following militant rocket attacks, public radio said. A possible Israeli ground operation in the Palestinian territory, however complex in the wake of the army's historic pullout from the Gaza Strip on September 12, is being discussed by Israeli defence officials, the radio said. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz was convening an emergency meeting of his top officials in Tel Aviv to evaluate the situation, the radio said. Palestinian militants have fired 30 makeshift rockets into Israel...

On June 4th, 1989, at an Air Show in London, Ontario, Canada, an RF-4-C Phantom of the Mississippi Air National Guard, accidentally cracked Mach-1, while doing the Show opening.As luck would have it, we were standing underneath it at the time. The photo was snapped by my brother as he was being blown off his feet:Cool, huh?...

The future of supersonic flight is taking shape in the very skies where the sonic boom first signaled the conquest of the sound barrier. This time, however, researchers hope to make a much quieter mark on history. The Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment uses a specially modified F-5E Tiger fighter jet to show that aircraft may be shaped so as to lessen the force of the shock wave created as it goes supersonic, thus producing a quieter sonic boom. "It is the forerunner of the future of supersonic flight," said Northrop Grumman chief test pilot Roy Martin, who piloted the modified...