Bekah v. Sonic Booms

FAA Investigates Possible Sonic Boom

Officials Investigate Boom

POSTED: 2:38 pm CDT June 20, 2007

UPDATED: 2:56 pm CDT June 20, 200

OMAHA, Neb. -- A loud boom was heard before noon, and Sarpy County officials said they are checking on what may have caused it.At about 12:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration told KETV NewsWatch 7 that the sound may have been a sonic boom created by a couple of F-16s that were in Omaha's air space at about the time of the boom.

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KETV NewsWatch 7 received several calls from people who said they heard or felt a boom in Douglas, Madison, Sarpy and Cass counties in Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Shirley Jefferson, in Irvington, said the boom shook her house. Treasure Baker, who lives at 1917 Military Ave., said her house shook and the dog went crazy.People as far away as Tabor, Iowa, and Fremont, Neb., also reported the boom.The Sarpy County sheriff said he had investigators on their way to investigate a gas regulator that was found on its side on Sheridian Road and 36th Street between Bellevue and Papillion.Several firetrucks were also on the way.

(From KETV)

Someone's gonna be in trroooubbbble.

Yessir, big trouble. Because breaking the sound barrier in a plane like that is illegal.

I knew I wasn't going crazy when I was sitting in my room and I heard a loud BOOM and then my entire house shook like it was on a fault line in California.