# Sonic BOOOOM!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095 "2008-11-30T21:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/21 "2008-12-01T03:43:56Z")
So that’s what that was. I thought a neighbor had dropped a large box or something. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/22 "2008-12-01T03:57:54Z")
Ha- I was in Costco today and heard it and had a momentary panic, but loud sounds usually do that to me, so I had my typical “It was _nothing,_ don’t worry about it” conversation in my head and carried on with my errands. Who’d’a thunk! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/23 "2008-12-01T04:14:12Z")
We heard it, too! Made me jump, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/24 "2008-12-01T04:24:10Z")
Reminds me of being a Navy brat in San Diego in the '60s and early '70’s. Sonic booms were frequent enough to be unremarkable. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/25 "2008-12-01T05:43:28Z")
If people are hearing it clearly 80 miles away what would it sound like _right under_ the point of origin? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/26 "2008-12-01T06:52:54Z")
AHA! Yes, I heard it and wondered if an oil refinery in the harbor (I live in Carson) area had gone blooey. They do that from time to time, you know. But when the expected sirens failed to sound, I recalled the very first space shuttle return and being told it would be a double boom, as it was, and as this one was. But I still didn’t make the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/27 "2008-12-01T08:11:34Z")
Merged two threads on this topic. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/28 "2008-12-01T15:55:33Z")
Years ago, we lived right across the river from a navy base. My cat of the time (Pussywillow) was sleeping contentedly in the back pool area, when all of a sudden a sonic boom went off. The poor cat jumped 4 feet in the air. Yeah they’re supposed to remain subsonic over land but you know how flyboys are… ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/29 "2008-12-01T17:09:37Z")
I caught one about 10:30 am on wednesday. Some fighter pilot leaving on a mission out of Nellis I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095/30 "2008-12-01T17:17:37Z")
I’ve had the shuttle-landing-sonic-boom thing scare the livin’ crap out of me more than once, living in central Florida. We work in a converted shipping complex, so the boom shakes the walls, and if you’re here on night-shift, working alone, and all of a sudden something goes BOOM, it’s kinda scary! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonic-boooom/475095.md?page=1)