Did You Hear It? Loud Noise Thursday Morning May Have Been Sonic Boom
By Maggie Cassidy, Valley News Web EditorFebruary 21, 2013
Did you hear it?
An extremely loud noise that was heard from Norwich to Vershire — and perhaps beyond — shortly before 11 this morning may have been a sonic boom, according to an official at the Lebanon Municipal Airport air traffic control tower.
Air Traffic Manager Braxton Freeman said he couldn’t say for sure whether the noise was indeed a sonic boom, the loud noise produced by the shock wave from an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound.
But after he received an inquiry from the Hanover police dispatch and a curious resident, he put in a call to the Federal Aviation Administration traffic agency in Boston.
“They informed me that there were some F-15s working in the military operating area,” he said, “and they could have produced the sonic boom sound, but they can’t be positive.”
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