Sonic booms are still heard in the U.S. from the nation's military aircraft. In 2021, a sonic boom from F-15 fighter jets caused widespread concern that there was an earthquake on the Oregon coast.

A loud noise around Washington, D.C., on Sunday may have been a sonic boom from F-16s investigating an aircraft in a restricted area, a U.S. official said.

Sonic boom rattled residents near DC, surrounding area. The fighter jets caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across D.C. and parts of Virginia and Maryland.

Officials are calling the loud noise heard all across the DMV a "sonic boom" caused by a military planes traveling at high speeds to intercept an unresponsive plane. ... (@DC_HSEMA) June 4, 2023.

A sonic boom from military jets racing toward a private aircraft that had crossed into restricted airspace startled hundreds in the Washington, DC area who heard the explosive sound on Sunday.

Sonic boom in DC: Plane that crashed lost contact with air traffic control just after takeoff. Victims named as Adina Azarian, 49, her two-year-old daughter Aria, pilot Jeff Hefner, and nanny ...

We have confirmed that the loud boom heard in Bowie was a sonic boom from a plane out of Joint Base Andrews. — Bowie Maryland (@CityofBowie) June 4, 2023 This content is imported from Twitter.

No survivors in Va. plane crash after fighter jet response, sonic boom across DC area NORAD F-16s set off a sonic boom while responding to an unresponsive Cessna jet that entered D.C.’s ...

A loud noise similar to an explosion heard in the Washington, D.C., metroplex area was the sonic boom of military aircraft scrambling to catch up to a Cessna aircraft with an unresponsive pilot ...

Sonic boom ‘explosion’ shakes Washington DC as fighter jets react to unresponsive plane before crash ‘Loud boom’ heard as far away as Annapolis, Maryland after fighter jets scrambled to ...

But "you probably could have heard a sonic boom,” Madison said. Discovery was traveling about 19,000 feet per second as it flew over Nebraska, she said. The speed of sound is 1,128 feet per ...