KaBOOM ! Your tax dollars at work ?

[fishinwrench]

Shook my whole house so I turned on the scanner.  Sounds like they got reports from areas 100 miles away.   Some are saying sonic boom but I remember those from when I was a kid and this thing sounded like a giant explosion.   

Who all heard it ?

[lee G.]

not here, Richland mo

[MOPanfisher]

Quick look out the window, is LOZ still there?  Seriously I did not notice it at Pomme de Terre Lake.

[fishinwrench]

19 minutes ago, lee G. said:

not here, Richland mo

You didn't hear it at Richland?  That's odd.  It shook buildings in Jeff city and supposedly as far away as Joplin (according to FB posts).

[Smalliebigs]

We heard it here in Des Peres at my office bigtime

[awhuber]

Nothing here at the upper Current. A friend north of COMO heard it, tho.

[MOPanfisher]

Several reports in Hickory County that heard it.  I haven't heard a sonic boom in years.

[fishinwrench]

Official news report is saying that it was a sonic boom but no aviation outfit, including the military, is owning up to it. I'm not agreeing with that.  It wasn't the jet type sonic boom that I'm familiar with anyway.  And it covered a really large area.

Ground width of the boom exposure area is approximately 1 statute mile (1.6 km) for each 1,000 feet (300 m) of altitude (the width is about five times the altitude); that is, an aircraft flying supersonic at 30,000 feet (9,100 m) will create a lateral boom spread of about 30 miles (48 km). 

[Gavin]

Military aircraft are the only likely suspects. Some top gun @ Scott is probably in hot water now, but that's all you will ever hear about it. Have not seen one or heard one  after I got off the aircraft carrier.

[jdmidwest]

Another Space X rocket probably bit the dust somewhere.