NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound that has a rich history in American aviation and possibly a muted future: A sonic boom. The ...

The sonic boom is a noise similar to thunder. It is caused by an object moving faster than sound: Air Force officials ...

What was that sound you just heard? We know many of you are flooding social media to ask just that question. Here's the answer: it was the sonic boom from from the Falcon 9 first-stage booster landing ...

HARTVILLE, Mo. -- The object that produced a loud boom over Webster County, just east of Springfield, came not from outer space but from St. Louis. Some NASA experts thought that the boom, heard and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — If you hear another loud noise in northwest Ohio or southeast Michigan Thursday morning, there's no need to panic: it's the sound of a fighter aircraft reaching supersonic speeds during ...

Don't be scared if you hear a sonic boom coming from the skies over southeast Michigan this afternoon. That's the message from the Ohio National Guard's 180th Fighter Wing. In a Facebook post Monday, ...

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